Friday, April 29, 2011

Yummy Goat Milk.


My goat Holly is milking around 7 pounds this year. She is a 2nd freshner born and raised here on our place. She is a LaMancha cross. She is daughter to Candy who was my first milk goat bought in '08.





She does have small teats and is hard to milk. uggg. Seems to take forever to get 7 plus pounds of of her. That equal to about 3/4 gallon. And this is just one time a day. Her twin bucks are on her during the day.





Wednesday, March 16, 2011

Savannah

Valentine (Vea) had her babies on Saturday, March 5th. She was due March 12 by our calculations.

The first baby was this one in the picture. She weighed in at 5 pounds 3 ounces. Her twin brother was 7 pounds.

We pulled the doeling to bottle feed since Vea has CAE. I am wishing we would have pulled the boy too but just wasn't thinking at the time.

J named her Savannah. So far this year we have "S" names. I will have to get some more pictures of the other babies. I have some but they aren't really that good.

Savannah is the start of our mini herd. Her mama is Purebred LaMancha and her daddy is a Nigerian Dwarf. Savannah is considered a 1st Gereration MiniMancha.

Tuesday, March 1, 2011

Jonathan showed Valentine at the 20011 Local Stockshow.




He was the only one showing Dairy so he won 1st place. He got $20.


At the County Livestock show he got 3rd out of 4 goats. We were happy. He got $10 there.