The family. We are a strange little band of characters trudging through life, sharing diseases and toothpaste, coveting one another's desserts, hiding shampoo, borrowing money, locking each other out of our rooms, inflicting pain and kissing to heal it in the same instant, loving, laughing, defending, and trying to figure out the common thread that binds us all together.

- Erma Bombeck

Sunday, May 11, 2014

Disbudded Babies

We disbudded the Alpine bucklings today.  They are nine days old today and boy am I glad we didn't wait.  Romeo's horn buds were quite large.  We used the disbudder, counting for five seconds and then another five seconds to get a beautiful copper ring.  Freestyle's rings did not look quite as copper as I would like, but I am not comfortable going beyond ten seconds of burning.  Hopefully, with their age and the previous successes we've had disbudding, we will have horn-free goats.
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