Hi Kristin!

Welcome! Glad you are here. Sounds like you have a lot to keep you busy. You are going to love owning goats, they have a lot of personality and are just fun. I love bloodhounds, I always root for them to win the hound group in dog shows.

and welcome Kristin.

Oh my, you are a busy woman, 4 children!

Sounds yummy... homemade chocolate caramels. Do you sell and ship those?

Hello Krazy Kristin!
I can vouch for her losing sleep. She emails me at 3:00 in the morning because she is so excited about her goats!
About time you listened to me and joined, Kristin - you know I'm never wrong. (NOT!) But this time I am right. The folks here are not loony-birds. (Okay, one or two are but they make it interesting.)

Hey welcome!!!*S*...and I think Dona was looking at me when she was talking about Loony-birds!!!!!!!..LMAO

yes i sell and ship the delicious, creamy, addictive chocolate caramels. $20 gets you a pound including priority shipping. i usually put in more than a pound cause if you let anyone else see them they will steal from you. i'm gonna list them in the sale part soon. just drop me a line if you are interested.

yes dona, you are the queen of right! you wish!

I've been called the Queen of many things, (won't go there), but never the Queen of right. But I think I like it.... Oddly enough, I have a sign in my kitchen that says, "The Queen Does Not Cook."

Michelle - if the bird fits............

Hi Kristin Great to have you hear, the caramels sound wonderful! We'll love hearing about your new goats!
Leah

chocolate and carmel in the same sentence! I am about to die! my two favorite things in the world!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! but alas must spend the money on stupid medicine to get me well.

Nice to meet yah Kristen - Dona is a nut job I tell yah

yeah the caramels are yummy. i only taste each batch, i never eat them or dear lord i'd look like some of the prego goats i've been seeing lately.

dona is indeed nuts! she'd have to be to keep talking to the likes of me!!

i can't wait till i can talk about my goats on here. of course for the first week or so i will stand in the yard staring in disbelief that they are acutally mine!!

kristin from transylvania

Hey! Who you calling nuts? You guys all talk to me, so who's really nuts.........me or you??

you do bring up a very interesting point! i freely admit to have some serious disorders so obviously i'm drawn to people who are equal on the crazy scale!

kristin

I tip the scale of crazy!
Triplet doelings this a.m.!!!! Two large white girls, and one tan runt. Runt not doing well. Don't know if she will make it.

KF how is you little runt doing? It was cold last night--20 degrees here. Keep hoping my gals kid during the day so I can be on hand. This waiting is about to do me in.
Did you give her some Nutri-Drench and put her in a warm place? Hopefully, she got some colostrum from Mama to help. Would be sad to lose a kid anytime, but especially a doe kid.
Special thoughts for both of you.

Seminole Wind in Kansas

I guess she really isn't a runt as far as weight goes. She is much smaller looking than the other two, but "meatier" while the other two are skinny. Yeah - we Nutri-Drenched her but after making sure she was dried well, left her with her mom and sisters. Don't like to "interfere" with nature any more than absolutely necessary.
One of the issues was one side of Pansy's (the dam) udder and one teat was so huge that there is no way they could nurse it. We really had to work on it to get milk flowing and then it was a raging river!! I have frozen some. I have only "milked" 2 Boers in the past, but never saw anything like this. This girl has an udder and teats like our cows and enough milk to drown in.

Note to New Members:

Now that our forum has grown and we have this whole section of the board to welcome new members, please feel free to start a new Topic to introduce yourself. Instead of using this old welcome thread, but I will keep it posted in case anyone wants to read about some of our current member's and their farms! Thank you!