Missing on the agouti

Well, Kisses missed. She's a nice broken tort doe who has been bred (twice, but who's counting?) to a beautiful chestnut agouti buck.

Both times, she had to travel a long ways to meet the buck. I knew she had missed the first time but had felt babies when I palpated her on the second breeding. Or thought I felt babies. I don't know if she absorbed the babies after the palpation or if my fingers were very hopeful when I palpated.

So the agouti project is on hold for now. None in my barn, which is, by the way, getting taken over by Timothy's black otter project. But that's a whole 'nother issue.

How often do I give a doe before considering her failed? Although I'll tell you three times, really the answer depends on how badly I want babies from her. Kisses isn't vital to my agouti project (I have plenty of torts!), she has produced some nice babies in her day.

So she may not be down two strikes right now. She lifted well for Bosco, a broken tort buck who is a fine buck to linebreed with. We'll see how it goes without the travel time.

But I'm still hopeful to get an agouti in the barn!