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| LisaTwo |
Posted - Jan 19 2011 : 2:47:51 PM
I just sold my first two Nigerian dwarf babies. They were boys and I can only keep the girls. It was hard and I'm sitting here wondering if they are warm and dry or hungry and if they will remember to put a half cup of warm cider in the water in the morning. How do people give children up for adoption? This really stinks. How do you let go and stop worrying about the animals that you have to give up? 
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| Goatherdess |
Posted - Jan 26 2011 : 08:44:48 AM
LisaTwo, I know how you feel! I agonize over whether or not the new owners will transition them to different feed gradually- I send 5lbs of what I feed with each kid) or all at once if they choose a different feed! If they will put out free choice minerals & baking soda. Change water 2xs a day. You know, the basics! Not as much worry if they are experienced with goats, more so, if new to goats. I give my phone # & tell them to call if they need me, or just to let me know how they are doing. I have a good mentor & I hope I can be for others too.
Then I wonder if I sold the wrong doeling or buckling that would improve the herd most, or give more milk than the one I kept. But that's different!
Can't have them all & space very limited, so just I care for & love them the best I can while they are with me!
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| grace gerber |
Posted - Jan 24 2011 : 11:27:37 AM
Lisa I know how hard it is and over the years it gets harder and harder because I have seen them thru many things. Some have now been with me for 14 years and they are family - so my heart is with you.
Yep soon you will have many goats and that is when life gets grand and exciting - at least that is what I tell myself.
Grace Gerber
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| gypsy goat |
Posted - Jan 20 2011 : 11:11:02 AM
i would feel the same way lisa-i just couldn't bear it if i didn't feel my babies were taken care of. i guess that's what stops me from breeding mine,i'm afraid i couldn't let go and i would have a million goats all over the place!but now that i think about it that would be kinda fun!
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| Penny Dyke |
Posted - Jan 20 2011 : 06:29:55 AM
Hi Lisa I can relate I used to breed mini reg horses had the mares and the stud, and would sell the babys, I thought since people where paying good money and the minis where papered they would go to a good home wrong.I was told about one I sold was being negected, so I payed a visit sure enough starving,I gave them the option I'll call the law or they just let me take it back no money,I took it back. I never sold another horse again.now all I do is take in unwanted animals. and if I do place them in a new home they know the story I will visit. Jsut be careful where they go. Penny |
| cajungal |
Posted - Jan 19 2011 : 5:15:31 PM
Hi Lisa. It can be hard. As time passes, you'll get better at the transition. One of my favorite bucks was sold to a friend that was starting a farm. I wasn't really worried about his care. I knew he'd be cared for. I also knew I could go see him.
What I wasn't prepared for was when I did recently go visit, he didn't remember me!!!! I almost cried. I thought for sure he would. Driving up there to the farm I kept having these silly movie-like visions in my head of he and I running toward each other in the field (I know, weird). Well, he didn't run to me. He just stood in the middle of the field and looked at this crazy lady talking baby talk to him. His new 'parent' walked up and he ran right up to them. I was astonished, even mad.....why didn't he remember all the hugs and kisses I gave him?
I guess the point of all that is.......they do grow to love their new families and are cared for.
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| kristin sherrill |
Posted - Jan 19 2011 : 3:41:29 PM
Hey Lisa. It is sad to let them go. We can't always know how they will be treated. Or if they will even stay with the people you sell them to. I just try to picture them all happy and warm and dry with a full belly. I do know where alot of my kids still are right now. But some of them I am not sure about. It is hard but I would drive myself crazy if I let it worry me. So I don't. I'm sure yours will be just fine where they are. They'll adjust and grow and be good kids. They were raised by good people.
Kris
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