Triple 3 Livestock

Another year of calving is upon us!

Fri, 09 Mar 2012 16:35:13 -0600

After a surprise heifer calf was born in February, we should have been anxious to get this year's calving started. Unfortunately at that time, we weren't finished kidding or lambing yet, so who wants to deal with another species of baby! Fortunately the mama cow was thrilled to be able to keep her calf with her and the weather here has been mild, so mom and calf continued to live outside with the rest of the expectant moms. Fast forward to today and one doe (goat) and one ewe (sheep) still have to give birth, and we already have ten calves on the ground! So it goes again-long days in the barn, short nights of sleep, and the promise of green grass! Six to eight weeks and 120 pregnant cows can't get over with quick enough. Happy (seasonal) calving to us!

Links

Sat, 18 Feb 2012 19:03:16 -0600

Here are some links to websites that we visit regularly:

Boer Goats For Sale

Mon, 06 Feb 2012 13:27:13 -0600

Making room for our new kid crop, we are offering for sale:

FULLBLOOD BUCKS

None at this time!

PERCENTAGE AND FULLBLOOD DOES

~T3L Thumper -1/23/2011 (ABGA #10537697) fullblood

sire-AABG SRR Heavy Hitter

dam-Poplar Hill W57

~T3L Bazooka -1/23/2011 (ABGA #10537696) fullblood

sire-AABG SRR Heavy Hitter

dam-Poplar Hill W57

~T3L Triple 3 Natalie - 8/15/2010 (ABGA #10519377) fullblood

sire-TC1 W805

dam-CCBG Nimera

~T3L Triple 3 Nutmeg - 8/15/2010 (ABGA #10519378) fullblood

sire-TC1 W805

dam-CCBG Nimera

~CCBG Nimera - 3/25/2007 (ABGA #10396663) fullblood

sire-NK Nothin' But Butt

dam-CCBG Eureka

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We only ended up having 5 does breed and kid for our summer breeding. We have 4 buck kids that would make nice bucks for a commercial herd. They are out of our herd sire Heavy Hitter, and will be weaned late summer/early fall. They can all be registered as 100% fullblood and will have had their CD&T vaccinations and been dewormed. We will try to get pictures up shortly of them.

We just finished our fall AI breeding program, synchronizing, and artificially inseminating 21 does, with another 6 that went right in the buck pen with our herd sire. We will Bio-Pryn pregnancy check them at 30 days and those that aren't bred will be bred to our herd sire. Later in the fall we will post what we have bred and to whom, but check out our buck page to see which sires we have used in our AI program.

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T3L Triple 3 Rippy Do
Born 08/26/2009

SOLD! to the Sabino's in NY

Sire: Rip Rap, IBGA Bronze Ennobled, Son of Ennobled Buck Ripper
Dam: Triple 3 Velma (Bodacious Ojo Bloodline)

T3L Rippy Do won Grand Champion Junior Buck at the July 2010 ABGA Show (Syracuse, NY) under Alabama judge, Wes Hallman. He currently has 6 ABGA points and has passed visual inspection.

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T3L Fully Loaded
Born 02/06/2010

SOLD! to Don and Melissa Ziemendorf-NY

Sire: 2 Dox Luger, Ennobled, 2009 ABGA National Champion Buck
Dam: Hillplace 8049 (Downen and Eggs Bloodlines)

T3L Fully Loaded recently took 6th place (day 1) and 4th place (day 2) under judges Anton Ward and Chip Kemp in the 6-9 month class at the October ABGA show in Albion, Ny.

He took 3rd place (out of 9) in the 6-9 month class at the September ABGA show (Syracuse, NY) under Texas judge Ty Fowler.

He took 2nd Place (out of 18) in the 3-6 Month Buck Class at the July, 2010 ABGA Show (Syracuse, NY) under Alabama judge, Wes Hallman.

He has 5 ABGA points and he will be inspected at the appropriate age.

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It's kidding and lambing time!

Mon, 06 Feb 2012 13:23:41 -0600

Kidding and lambing time has arrived at T3L! We are getting some really nice lambs from our new ram that we purchased last fall from A & B Dorsets in Newark, Ohio. He was not quite six months old when we put him in with our mature ewes in September but to our amazement, he got the job done! We are up to 35 lambs and still have 6 more to lamb out. We have gotten mostly ewe lambs, so we will be in short supply of meat this fall, but we should have some nice ewes to sell for breeding stock and 4H projects. Please contact us early if you are interested in either breeding stock or would like to be on our waiting list for fall meat.

Merry Christmas!

Sat, 24 Dec 2011 12:01:00 -0600

Happy holidays to everyone! May you all be able to spend time with family and friends this holiday season. Just a quick thank you to everyone who has purchased animals and meat from us over the year.

Our kidding starts in a very short time, as in right after Christmas, and continues through January. The goat kids should just about all be born in time for our sheep to start lambing! Once we get through February and lambing and kidding, guess what? It's time for calving to start! Oh, but we're getting a little bit ahead of ourselves like we tend to do. For now we'll try to enjoy the family get togethers between now and New Years and worry about losing all the cookie pounds later!

Just a reminder- we are all out of pork, goat and lamb meat until late spring. We still have a good supply of ground beef and different cuts of steak. Let us know what you're interested in!

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

Does

Wed, 16 Nov 2011 20:01:15 -0600

Although we enjoy showing and winning with our goats, we feel that it is essential that our animals remain productive as well. We will not keep, nor sell to others, any animal that cannot reproduce and raise (her) offspring, no matter how good she (or he) does in the show ring.

Our does have some of the most well known genetics in the boer goat industry. They include sires such as:

Powell/Holman Bingo's Superman (ennobled)
BDF Another Notch (ennobled)
Agnew's Cash Reward (ennobled)
KRG Lovers Pay Day
2 DOX Alotta Class
CD Kin Unleashed
NK Nothin' But Butt
Powell/Holman 280R
AABG NBD Online
Downen V72 Bora
AABG Status Quo (ennobled)
AABG Powerhouse
2DOX Luger (ennobled)
AABG/LOID Vindicator

If you are interested in adding new genetics to your herd, contact us to see what we have available!

Bucks

Wed, 16 Nov 2011 20:00:07 -0600

Triple 3 Livestock uses only the finest registered fullblood bucks in our breeding program. We are commited to producing quality fullblood and percentage boer goats for show, breeding stock, and meat production. We strive to follow the ABGA breed standards, regardless of whether our animals are for show or commercial purposes.

We always have at least one herd sire on the farm for natural service, but we also utilize artificial insemination to diversify our genetics. For the current (fall) breeding season, six of our does were bred to our herd sire-AABG SRR Heavy Hitter, while the rest were bred artificially to Ward's Cat In The Hat (ennobled), Capriole's Montego (scroll down their page-he is in the middle), RRD Right on Target (ennobled), and Walkin' K LFC Sporter.

While we are still "perfecting" our AI program at T3L and are not achieving the results we have hoped for, we did still get some percentage and fullblood does bred by AI for January kidding. We have confirmed pregnancies for all of the sires we used and once kidding gets under way we will have a better idea of what we will have available for sale.

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