Blessed Caprines

We have found 2-3 smallish goats fit perfectly here, with a little room left for kids for a short time.  Right now we have a Kinder doe, a Nigerian Dwarf Doe, and a Kinder/ND cross buck.  We are still adjusting, trying to figure what will work for us best, and may be replacing our Kinder doe, and selling our buck.  If interested in the buck, please contact me, and make me an offer.  I am SO happy to have goats again.  I kinda felt lost without them for a while there.  I not only miss the wonderful milk, and all the things I can make with it, but their sweet, fun loving personalities.  Sure, they can be trying at times, but there is just something about having warm goaties munching hay in your barn while it's snowing outside that just warms the heart.  Thank you Jessie and Patsy for helping me get started again.

This is my sweet Stormy, a grade Nigerian Dwarf doe.  She came to us VERY shy, and difficult to handle.  She's now my favorite doe, and will have a forever place with us, as I don't want her to have to start all over again.  She's around 4-5 years old.  She has beautiful babies, and we will be breeding her next season to a registered buck for registerable kids.  Right now she's bred to our buck for meat kids.  She gives about 4-6 cups of milk a day, depending on point of lactation (how long she's been lactating), but the milk is SO rich, and creamy, I can skim the cream off like cow milk, and have made wonderful, rich butter, sour cream and tea with it.  I hope eventually to maybe have two ND, just to have more cream, lol.  But, we'll see how it plays out.

This is Gabriel, our Kinder/ND buck.  He's a handsome fellow, very sweet, friendly, easy to handle.  He's gotten bigger since I took this pic.  We are probably going to sell him.  He could be whethered to be a wonderful pet, or may have to go to the freezer.  I hate to have it happen, but we've decided we probably really don't need a buck.  He's 8 months old now.

This is Sandy.  She came to us a bit underweight, pregnant, and very lacking in minerals.  Her coat is now much darker, as red as her new kid in the pic.  She's an easy milker, and gives probably a quart each morning (the kid nurses all day), but her milk is off tasting, most likely due to mineral deficency most of her life.  She's a great doe otherwise, but if she doesn't clear up, we'll replace her.

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