Bummer! Or Not....?

Well, last night I took Nizhoni's Joie De Vivre *D/1*M and her 1/2 sister Nizhoni's DW Tirzah to the vet to get sonogrammed. NOT pregnant - neither one!!!! Personally I'm not sure whether I'm really dissappointed - I was really looking forward to fall babies running around and entertaining us - or not - Less work, no need to disbud, tattoo, give shots and try to sell those that we aren't going to keep(Worse yet, what if we got all bucklings!!!) I was wanting to milk the girls thru the winter and be able to breed Miss Priss early this year as we are breeding her to the Kinder buck this year for meat - gotta give those boys a lot of growing time!!!! Assuming of course that we will get boys. Anyway, that is the news. OR lack thereof.
I am still trying to firm up some breeding plans but tentatively this is our schedule and the intented beau for the girls:
Nizhoni's Joie de Vivre - October - Piddlin Acres H Calm the Storm - Blue eyes possible
Nizhoni's DW Tirzah - October - Nizhoni's Orion
CBF TD Kokoro Kiseki - Nov/Dec - Piddlin Acres H Calm the Storm OR MCH Lost Valley ML Nekoda *S
CBF CS Paint Th'Sky with Stars - Nov/Dec - MCH Flying Goat Jazzy Blues *S Blue eyes Probable
Darkwind Goats Blue Denim Coral - ???? - Piddlin Acres H Calm the Storm. Blue Eyes Probable
WE will be taking reservations on Joie's babies as we aren't planning on keeping any of hers this year - we have so many of her's in the herd already. The rest we will be evaluating as they come. There will be NO bucks available out of any of the does except Joie. I have a doe back deal on Stars sister who will also be bred to Jazzy therefor I might have babies available out of Stars as well but we will cross that bridge when we get to it.
If any of these interest you - please let us know as early as possible. Normally we require a $50 deposit to hold a kid but we will take names and then when they are born we will contact those on the list. IF you need to see current pics of the girls you can check our website www.cbfnigeriangoats.com .. Also, we will post the bucks pics as soon as the breeding takes place. Thank you for placing your trust in us to provide your next Nigerian Goat!

Bosque Farms Fair/Medical Updates

As most of you know we've had a rough year here at CBF Nigerians. I am TIRED.
We were planning on showing at the Aug. 1, 2009 ADGA Youth and Open show in Estancia but because we decided that our tight budget was better spent on hay, CAE testing the whole herd and a new buck who should improve our herd in both the milk pail and the showring we decided we were calling in quits for the year after the Bosque Farms Fair show. This is a 2 hour in the evening on Friday at the local fair. It's really just for fun!!!! I hope more folks come show this year than did last year (we swept EVERY class last year but every goat there had our name on it even if we didn't own it!!!! BUMMER!!!) I would so like to see an even better turnout this year - just for fun though many folks are probably planning on using that time to get ready for the Saturday show. Aside from the news that we will (GOD willing) be adding a new buck to our herd next year we are also going to take two does to get sonogrammed on Friday and since a lease buck we were going to get didn't work out I'm hoping these two are pregnant. I had a back up plan and I will use it now. I will be accepting a reservation (no money until birth) on the two does that are due (mid to late Sept and Oct 2) Everything but a doe kid out of Tirzah will be for sale. Bucks will be wethered and sold as pets unless we get a blue eyed buck kid out of Joie - that is reserved. Then we will begin our breeding plans in as early as October. For those of you interested in doe kids out of our herd this spring here are the tentative plans. If Tirzah isn't pregnant - she will go visit Joie's beau from last year in October, Piddlin Acres KR Tapdance, First doe is owner reserved. Next is CBF TD Kokoro Kiseki - she will be going to visit MCH Lost Valley ML Nekoda *S in Nov/Dec along with CBF CS Paint Th'Sky With Stars who will go visit MCH Flying Goat Jazzy Blues *S for a linebreeding on MCH Lost Valley KW Orion *S. This breeding also will bring in PrairieWood Player *D who was breed leader last year for one day milk test production!. Jazzy's dam earned her star this year as well at our club's one day test. Owner reserves a doe kid from Nekoda and Koko. Little Darkwind Blue Denim Coral is so small right now that I have NO current plans to breed her unless she hits a major growth spurt between now and December. IF she gets big enough to breed over the winter she will go visit our own CBF TD Daredevil who is owned by Camino Allegre in Belen, He is out of Joie and Tapdance. That's the plans for now. IF any of the above mentioned breedings interest you please let us know. Hope you all have a fun rest of your show year and Good luck to all our readers who are heading into State and County Fairs - we wish you all the best for big wins!!!!

That is all for the goat news. Now for the medical news - ha - there isn't any BUT We signed up to be team leaders for the 2009 NM Lymphoma/Leukemia Society 'LIGHT THE NIGHT' walk.
We are looking for sponsors for our team. If you are at all interested, please feel free to go to our team websitehttp://pages.lightthenight.org/nm/Albuquer09/TeamBlueSkies to donate on line or email me and you can donate to us through snail mail. The walk takes place on Sept 26, 2009 and we welcome any and all donators and walkers to come and join us!!!!!