Many of you know that I had picked out and put deposit on two Nigi does, one of which was in milk.
I was stoked and went out to the farm to see them.
While there I fell in the goat paddock and broke my ankle, but that's another story!
I decided while there to not take the younger nigi doe and go with a super friendly Saanen doe named Heidi who will be year old in June. She also took $50 off the price of the Saanen doe because I got hurt and gave me a free pedigreed French Angora buck rabbit.
So I was taking a Nigi and a Saanen. I was supposed to pay her and take them home in May.
Weeks pass, everything is fine. I don't hear from the breeder. I fall compltely in love with the rabbit, who I named Peter (stole the name right from Miss Prissy! LOL)
Then last night I get an e-mail from her, asking if I would be willing to take a 9 week old Saanen doeling named Isabella who is extremely show quality because her 12 year old daughter is attached to Hiedi and can't let her go. I am miffed because I had hoped for milk for my family sooner but I think it over and roll with it, the doeling has MUCH better bloodlines than Heidi in the milk department and she is just stunning to look at. The breeder tells me that for my trouble (she knew I really wanted Heidi) she will take another $50 off her price AND give me a free breeding to any of her bucks (a $100 value) when the time comes.
So I am getting a gorgeous, registered, high quality doeling for $100
I am excited about this. But then I get to thinking... I was taking a Nigi already in milk. She's giving a quart a day. At first I thought it would be enough for my family as we weren't huge milk drinkers.
But since I have started to tell friends that we were getting goats I already have a couple people interested in buying goat milk for their pets
and goat cheese, etc.
I talked to the breeder and we both came to the conclusion that the Saanen will give about or over a gallon a day, and the Nigi will give a quart. Just recently with cheese and yogurt making and breadmaking, we have been going through anywhere from 3-6 gallons of milk a week. It won't be enough milk for everything we need and plan to do with it, plus a couple customers.
She tells me that Bella dam, Windy will be for sale in December after she has earned her milk star. She will let me take her for the same price as I was going to pay for the Nigi doe, $350.
I jumped on it. Windy will still be in milk when she comes home.
Now I don't have any goats here right now. So I ask her, "How can we handle this, since Bella will be ready to come home long before Windy?" And she tells me that she will let me borrow a 6 month old Nigi doe that they are planning to keep!
These are my new girlies:
Windy
Isabella
Funny how you can go for a certain thing but someone can have other plans!
I was stoked and went out to the farm to see them.
While there I fell in the goat paddock and broke my ankle, but that's another story!
I decided while there to not take the younger nigi doe and go with a super friendly Saanen doe named Heidi who will be year old in June. She also took $50 off the price of the Saanen doe because I got hurt and gave me a free pedigreed French Angora buck rabbit.
So I was taking a Nigi and a Saanen. I was supposed to pay her and take them home in May.
Weeks pass, everything is fine. I don't hear from the breeder. I fall compltely in love with the rabbit, who I named Peter (stole the name right from Miss Prissy! LOL)
Then last night I get an e-mail from her, asking if I would be willing to take a 9 week old Saanen doeling named Isabella who is extremely show quality because her 12 year old daughter is attached to Hiedi and can't let her go. I am miffed because I had hoped for milk for my family sooner but I think it over and roll with it, the doeling has MUCH better bloodlines than Heidi in the milk department and she is just stunning to look at. The breeder tells me that for my trouble (she knew I really wanted Heidi) she will take another $50 off her price AND give me a free breeding to any of her bucks (a $100 value) when the time comes.
So I am getting a gorgeous, registered, high quality doeling for $100
I am excited about this. But then I get to thinking... I was taking a Nigi already in milk. She's giving a quart a day. At first I thought it would be enough for my family as we weren't huge milk drinkers.
But since I have started to tell friends that we were getting goats I already have a couple people interested in buying goat milk for their pets
I talked to the breeder and we both came to the conclusion that the Saanen will give about or over a gallon a day, and the Nigi will give a quart. Just recently with cheese and yogurt making and breadmaking, we have been going through anywhere from 3-6 gallons of milk a week. It won't be enough milk for everything we need and plan to do with it, plus a couple customers.
She tells me that Bella dam, Windy will be for sale in December after she has earned her milk star. She will let me take her for the same price as I was going to pay for the Nigi doe, $350.
I jumped on it. Windy will still be in milk when she comes home.
Now I don't have any goats here right now. So I ask her, "How can we handle this, since Bella will be ready to come home long before Windy?" And she tells me that she will let me borrow a 6 month old Nigi doe that they are planning to keep!
These are my new girlies:
Windy
Isabella
Funny how you can go for a certain thing but someone can have other plans!
