I received the photo below and letter to the editor nearly two years ago and fully intended to publish it in the February 2007 Meat Goat Monthly News and then once again fully intended to publish it in the February 2008 Meat Goat Monthly News. Well, I missed the boat again this year. I will try to get it into the March 2008 issue and am publishing it here, now, on Valentine’s Day.

The little Boer kid shown here was born on Valentine’s Day 2006 and came out of his mama with a heart shaped spot on his side. Here are the photo and letter I received from Don Richardson:

Editor,
We thoroughly enjoy your magazine (Meat Goat Monthly News) each month and appreciate your regular and featured articles. You perform a great service to our industry. We want to share with you a photograph of a Valentine’s Day surprise for us! This little guy was born early on Tuesday morning, February 14 (2006), and we could not believe the coincidence of the date and his unique almost perfect heart shaped spot on his left shoulder.

My wife, Sharion, and I live about 3 miles South of Big Spring and have about 50 nannies and three billies at our place. The goat business is new and exciting to us and we thoroughly enjoy raising them. We have been in the “Kid” business for a combined total of over 60 years through my work in Extension and hers in public schools. This relatively new phase in our lives provides us with a lot of fun and we really enjoy it when the 4-H and FFA members that select our goats as projects do well with them.

Sincerely yours,
Don Richardson
Big Spring, Texas