Goat Paperwork

Wow. Quite the ordeal with the paperwork for a goat. First you have to figure out just WHICH registry/association you wish to belong, as there are more than a few choices. Then after that choice is made you join said association and when THAT is confirmed, you can apply/seek approval and register for a herd name (you have option of three choices) and then a herd tattoo sequence. Check, check, check ;-) Next on the agenda is having the existing ownership papers transferred to our name with the association on the girls we purchased earlier.
Got the new hoof trimmers in the mail today and Randy is going to try his hand at it later this week on our with "resident Roo" Hope, before she leaves on her journey North at the end of the month. Should prove to be interesting ;-) I guess next on the goat online shopping hotline will be a tattoo gizmo to identify our new babies when they come next spring. Lighting candles already for strength and cajone's when that time comes! (not for the birthing...but the tattoo/debudding/neutering part) We also need to build a kidding pen inside the existing pen, hopefully before the snow flies. And that won't be long as the woolly worms are crossing the road already!
The work is never done and I still love the challenge. *watch this attitude change as the temp drops*