DATA!

Guys and Gals,

I just wanted to give you a little bit of information we learned on Friday when working the bucks. The first thing we learned is the ticks have invaded not only the dogs but some of the goats. We first began to pick the ticks and noticed a little swelling of the ears of the high infected bucks so we took those bucks to see Dr. Mitchell and when he picked the ticks we put them in a vile to send off to a livestock entomologist for more research on the tick problem. Dr. Mitchell said the best thing we can do is watch them and pick the ticks then put a little iodine where the ticks were located. On the other hand, there are some great things happening with the bucks including some really nice weight gains and fecal counts plus the weather gave us a little bit of a break for a few days and everyone and every animal is enjoying the cooler weather we are experiencing. I hope you guys enjoy looking at the data posted on the right hand side labeled 8/20/2010 data I know Mary and I have really enjoyed analyzing the data to see how the goats are doing.

More Data to Come

We will be working the bucks again this week and more data will be posted next week sometime. The weather forecast for this part of the world shows only double digits for this week instead of triple so maybe the animals will get some relief this week. All the bucks are looking great and we are starting to see some changes in the bucks. Over, the weekend Dr. Browning stopped by for a visit so I will be adding some pictures of his visit to the slide show.

7/30/2010 Data

Hey guys!

The bucks are looking great and handling the HOT and dry weather better than I could ever think about doing. We got all the bucks worked, fecals read and I have all the data compiled together for you guys to look at so you can see how your bucks are doing. In the right hand list the newest data is called 7/30/2010 Data. If there is any question at all on any of your bucks give us a call or an e-mail and we will see what we can figure out.

Update

The slide show in the right hand column has been updated to pictures of this years bucks and dogs. We will be doing fecals and weights on Friday so the beginning of next week there will be some new data posted for everyone.

Fecals

I just wanted to let everyone to know the goats are doing great and we will be doing fecals at the end of next week and will be getting more data posted. If anyone has questions give us a call or an e-mail.

Beginning Data

Hey guys! Sorry, I haven't been able to update since the second of July but everything has been very busy for us and things are starting to slow down a little bit and I hope I can go back to posting once a week as I know you guys are interested in where you buck is standing today. I will be posting the data as a link on the right hand side of the page entitled Beginning Data.

Warm Up

All the goats have arrived for the test and are starting to become adjusted to the Oklahoma weather. We ended up having a total of 60 goats entered for the test. Before the goats began arriving we were almost in a drought situation but after the first set of goats arrived we finally received some relief with a little bit of rain to green things back up around here. I will be trying to give everyone an initial e-mail of how everything went over on the initial FAMACHA and weigh in of your goats. I will also plan to post the spreadsheet on the blog . After, the initial please just be looking at the blog for all the data and if you have any questions about your animals at all please feel free to give us a call or send us an e-mail and we will be more than happy to let you know how things are going.