The time has come for our foundation herd sire, Larry, to go down the road. He has sired all of our kids from the 2009-2011 kidding seasons, and with some transitions in the ownership of the herd, we’re also looking to re-evaluate our direction and our bloodline. As much as we love what he has produced, and hate to see him go, it would be nice to outcross his daughters to a new buck rather than continue to breed them back to their father.
Spice, our livestock guarding dog, with Larry
For those of you who don’t know, Larry is a grade Kiko buck. He is four and a half years old. Here is his kidding record:
2009 Kidding Season – exposed to four adult does, producing:
Twin bucks out of a grade Nubian doe
Twin does out of a grade Boer doe
Twins, a buck and a doe, out of a grade Boer doe
A single doe kid out of a Spanish/Boer doe
Larry in 2010
2010 Kidding Season – exposed to five adult does, and three yearling does, producing:
Twins, a buck and a doe, out of a grade Nubian doe
Twin bucks out of a grade Nubian doe
Twins, a buck and a doe, out of a grade Boer doe
Twin does out of a grade Boer doe
Twins, a buck and a doe, out of a Spanish/Boer doe
A single buck kid out of a yearling Kiko/Spanish/Boer doe
A single doe kid out of a yearling Kiko/Boer doe
A single buck kid out of a yearling Kiko/Boer doe
Larry, in summer 2010 with Kiko/Boer kid Bam-Bam behind him
2011 Kidding Season – exposed to five adult does, and three yearling does, producing:
Twins, a buck and a doe, out of a grade Nubian doe
Twins, a buck and a doe, out of a Spanish/Boer doe
Twin does out of a grade Boer doe
Twin bucks out of a Spanish/Boer/Kiko doe
Twins, a buck and a doe, out of a Kiko/Boer doe (purchased from us exposed to him)
Three yearling does (two Kiko/Boer and one Kiko/Nubian) were also exposed to him and have not yet kidded
If you have reviewed any of our other posts regarding this year’s goat kids, you will see plenty of his offspring. I’m going to try to use the WordPress gallery setting to upload some pictures of his offspring from prior years… we’ll see if it works.
Edited to add: Okay, it’s putting them up as small thumbnails, is including the pictures of Larry within the gallery, and isn’t showing the captions under the pictures… and I don’t know how to fix that. But if you click on the thumbnails, the pictures will come up for larger viewing.
We are asking $250 for Larry, and would like to get him moved off the farm as soon as possible. Having two to three feet of snow on the ground (depending on where you look) is making space seem especially tight right now. 
He is located about forty-five minutes north of Syracuse, NY. Please e-mail me at aiketgate88 (at) aol (dot) com if you would like to inquire about purchasing Larry.
