{"id":538,"date":"2013-02-06T12:14:43","date_gmt":"2013-02-06T12:14:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kellnlivestock.com\/site\/?p=410"},"modified":"2013-02-06T12:14:43","modified_gmt":"2013-02-06T12:14:43","slug":"sires-a-bucks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/kellnlivestock.com\/site\/sires-a-bucks\/","title":{"rendered":"Sires &#038; Bucks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;One in the same. &nbsp;And the good sires cost a lot of bucks. &nbsp;I&#8217;ve been giving a lot of thought as to what to do with all of these smelly beasts that we have. &nbsp;We have decided to sell semen on the Valentine&#8217;s Day Sweetheart semen sale on oklahomashowgoats.com. &nbsp;There will be semen on Joe Dirt and Fade2Black. &nbsp;I am still trying to decide whether to offer some out of Rumour Has It or not. &nbsp;I&#8217;m leaning towards selling a few straws, but I&#8217;ve still got a day or two to make that decision.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;We are also pondering what to do with all of the other bucks. &nbsp;Tyke has his entire set of does bred to Joe Dirt. &nbsp;He has kept numerous doe kids and will keep more out of this set. &nbsp;I have a pile of Dirty daughters. &nbsp;I&#8217;m going to have to come up with a new buck for GT at some point. &nbsp;I don&#8217;t want to let go of a buck like Dirt, as he has sired a pile of good ones, his daughters are keepers and his kids have all been easy to sell and successful in the show ring. &nbsp;But, I don&#8217;t know that we have enough does to justify keeping him around.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;We are also studying the same problem with Pullan and Nation as they have kept a pile of Fade2Black daughters and are going to keep more this year. &nbsp;His first crop was phenomenal with a div. champ wether at Tulsa, another class winner and numerous other high placings.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;I don&#8217;t really want to sell bucks of this quality, with these kind of genetics and that are proven. &nbsp;But it will take a pile of bucks (cash) to replace them, thus the dilemma. &nbsp;To sell, to sell 1\/2 interest or just keep them? &nbsp;If we sell, do we do it private treaty or in an online sale?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;We have time to think about this. &nbsp;That is the good part.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;One in the same. &nbsp;And the good sires cost a lot of bucks. &nbsp;I&#8217;ve been giving a lot of thought as to what to do with all of these smelly beasts that we have. &nbsp;We have decided to sell semen on the Valentine&#8217;s Day Sweetheart semen sale on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/kellnlivestock.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/kellnlivestock.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/kellnlivestock.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kellnlivestock.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kellnlivestock.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/kellnlivestock.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/kellnlivestock.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kellnlivestock.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kellnlivestock.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}