Beautiful ab. thanks for sharing.I have lots of local folks that want to-The day my dw had her stroke she fed 16 that morn-I have not fed them like she did but I still have 6 or 8 that stays around here, wish she could have seen the white one-AB
M L How much snow did u get????????????Beautiful ab. thanks for sharing.
Cost? Varies tremendously. Really. But you could likely pick up a doeling at weaning time...a reasonably good one....for around $75. And instead of getting a second doe for her company, you could get a wether, or castrated male. They would be much cheaper. If you get a doeling, get one that's been handled, and keep handling her, including rubbing under her as if she had a developed udder. She'll "squat" for you if she's comfy with the handling. It'll make milking her much easier later on. Once she kids, you can pull the kid/s and bottle feed them, or depending on how much milk you want, and how lazy you are (ahem), you can do like I did (ahem), which was to separate the kids from mom at night once the colostrum time is done. Then I got morning milk. Let the kids back with mom the rest of the day. She'll bump up production to meet demand. I made sure my does were vaccinated for things that go through the milk, and I wasn't worried too much about transfer on other things. Plus, I just preferred the kids got mom time. If you choose to go the "lazy" route, and find it's not enough milk for you, just raise up one of her doelings to keep, or buy a second doe, and do the same with both. Watch the Agricultural Review for sales of dairy goats. I've had Nubian, Saanan and Alpine, and they were all lovely girls. I did end up preferring the Alpines, but it was personality reasons more than anything else.Good Morning everyone!!
Thank you Hollow for the advice... now to wait and see what DH wants to do. I shared with him your thoughts, so we'll see!! I mentioned to him the whole "must be bred to produce milk" scenario and that all 3 of what we're looking at are herd animals so we'd need more than just 1...I think I have him leaning towards a Nubian Goat and the second is still undecided. We don't actively drink milk, so it would just be for cooking & cheese making - and the kiddos -one drinks raw milk as if it was her last meal...she will put the cup down and say, "Mommy it tastes GOOD" and proceed to try and get every last drip.I can honestly see her trying to "milk" the animals by just going out there and "feeding" off the teat!! May I ask you one more question? You're best guestimate (hehe love that word that's not a word) - how much could one expect to pay for a milking goat or sheep??
Thank you SO much for being so helpful. I don't know what i'd do without "my" BYC'ers!!
Busy next couple of days for us here...I hope you all are having a great morning and end with a great day!!
congrats; enjoy your new little cotton-butt family members!Eek!! Just bought 8 chickies from mypetchicken
SO EXCITED
They are supposed to arrive after Nov 5th.
1 partridge cochin
1 blue silkie
1 white silkie
1 partridge penedesenca
1 red silkie
3 "Assorted" rare breeds
We name all of our chicks after family members ... I guess I better get the family tree out and start picking names
cuuuuuuuuuteHere are my 2 kiddos in their costumes....and yes this is chicken related.....lol
my daughter is the cute lil baby chick and my son is .........a chick magnet!
