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Our Boer Goats here at North Creek Farms #3 where the inspiration of my
neice's Alyssa and Steffi . In August of 2007 both girls
came back from Kansas City for a visit. Looking for something
exciting and fun to do , we went to the Pig and Lamb Scramble at the
Sarpy County Fair. The Pig and Lamb Scramble is when they divide
thousands of kids into age groups, keeping girls and boy's
seperated. This is not an event for the clean kid, but rather one
for the go getter, who wants to get in there, race to catch an animal
and take it home. Thinking back of when I was a kid, I
always caught a rabbit to bring home, small and easy to care for. There
was the time my little sister did catch a lamb, this one lamb (Buffy)
soon turned into 10 more.
With my neices never before seeing a Pig
and Lamb scramble, I explained the rules (No Pigs, No Puppies, No
Kittens) and the prompting of go for a rabbit or a pony.
We are now set, Alyssa is going into her age group, about 250
girls and 40 animals. She races off and becomes the proud
owner of a beautiful red rabbit.
 Now it is Steffi's turn, she races in
there, misses the rabbits, keeps going after a pig (didn't she hear the
rules), she misses the pig and now she is chasing a goat (GOAT, We
forgot to say NO GOAT). We are sitting high in the bleachers
laughing, saying she won't get it, too many girls are after the
goat. Then it looks like Steffi falls, I am worrying if she is
OK, she jumps up with a GOAT in her hands (she never fell, she was
catching that GOAT) !!! My Dad and I are laughing so hard we have
tears running down our face. Dad says, she has a goat!!
Yes, we forgot to tell her NO GOAT! Now remember these girls are
from Kansas City in a suburb and the rabbit can go to school as a pet
for the class but the goat he will most likely cause some
trouble. After the girls left, my vets office found a person who
was thrilled to get that little crossbred goat.
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You are probably wondering, what does
this story have to do with my Boer Goats, My neice Steffi,
asked me over and over again, can we get her billy goat
back. So after some thought I have found the best goats
that I feel I could find for my money. I wasn't looking for
a crossbred goat, this was going to have to be a goat who could feed
himself on pasture (we have over 300 acres) without needing to purchase
feed (except for winter) . He was going to have to have the
genetics to put pounds on , not having the desire to climb out of the
fences and definitely not be found standing on my car. I
called around, visited a few sales and then I found Sandra.
Sandra is a Boer Goat breeder in the sandhills of Nebraska.
We go to visit her and see her goats and that moment I knew I had
finally found the goats that would fit in at out farm. They were
friendly, bright eyed and comical! Sandra had 200 of them, some
out on pasture, some walking around the yard eating grass in no pen
with no desire to go anywhere. This is how we ended up with
our Boer Goats and I am very excited to see how we do when the babies
come.
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Tilly
and Maggie, 5 months old.
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Another
funny story about my Boer Goats. My Boer Goats have
adopted a old livestock trailer as their home. In October I
purchased 60 bales of wheat straw for my goats to have fresh bedding
all winter long. We hauled the straw home in the livestock
trailer, moved 40 bales to a shed for storage and decided to leave the
remaining 20 bales in the trailer. A few days later I was
checking my goats in the evening to make sure they put themselves away
in the lot (lot is a secure pen to keep animals safe). They
were not there, I searched the pasture and no goats. I am
now headed back to the house to get my keys to my car to travel to the
other side of the farm (it is getting dark quickly). As I
walk past the livestock trailer I see all these eyes looking at
me. This was the strangest site I had ever seen, the goats
were sitting up high on the straw so they could watch outside and see
what was going on. :))) They weren't missing, just
found a safe secure place to sleep.
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trailer, click here
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Look
way in the back of the trailer at what looks like a round
white ball, that is Maggie sitting as high as she can get so she
can
watch the door. Boer Goats, you got to love
them!!! Emma likes to stand on a bale of straw where she
can see out the side of the trailer.
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08/15/2008
Chicks Arrive
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09/15/2008
Boer Goats are home.
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09/30/2008
Haven't seen cows
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