Goat, goats, everywhere are goats at our little farm! Nothing says spring more than new life! Sadly, none of these little kids were born on our farm but give us another year! We have big plans for the future. And the future starts here. Say hello to our newest goat members.
This here goat is Gabriella, she is part LaMancha and part Nubian. She is already two years old and ready for breeding. I bought her for two reasons. One, her colour. I am a sucker for blondes. I love any shade of blonde, browns, caramels, beige, whatever, it is my favourite colour in animals and figure she'll throw me some lovely coloured kids. The other reason we bought her was because she was registered. Not sure where we are going with that at the moment, but it was a bonus and that makes her our first registered goat.
Our next purchase was this here fellow who will be our breeding buck. We missed the breeding season this year and don't want to chance it next year, so got our first billy. It should be interesting. We are such novice farmers and I'm worried owning male goats and sheep will be more than we can handle. But we want to try. Lets just hope he isn't too young and will be able to breed our gals this fall. Or able to breed at all.
This here is our second buck. He is a young nigerian dwarf. And don't mind the green ears, that's just the residue left over from the ink when he was tattooed. He is our second registered goat which of course we are now on the hunt for a female registered nigerian dwarf. He is super sweet full of confidence and determination. When our goat herd got too rough with him, he bolted over the wall divider between stalls and hung out with the lambs. He'll probably give me a run for my money when he's older. As you can see, he also has alot of the colouring I favour. Along with his future partner, our pygmy Holly, they should produce some nice offspring.
Today, we picked up three more goats. They are all half sisters to our original two goats, Fawn and Jadis.
They are dual goats with Alpine/Toggenburg in them from their mother's side while their sire was a full boer. It is this cross that I decided to buy my own boer buck to reproduce with these three gals and their two older sisters offspring that would be suitable for the meat market while still being able to milk the momma's for goat milk.
And last but far from least as I'm sure we will be adding more to our herd in the future, is this cream coloured pygmy doe on the left. She's not at home at the moment as she is still too young to leave her momma.
I am super excited about our plans with the goats and all the animals in the barn and looking forward to watching them grow and reproduce and hopefully turn our little hobby farm into a working productive farm. It isn't much, but it's a beginning.
Congratulations!!! That is quite a crowd! The triplets are gorgeous, absolutely gorgeous. Actually, everyone's gorgeous.
I am looking forward to hearing how the bucklings go for you--we were considering it, but chickened out at the last minute.
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I live a very simple life on a small hobby farm along with my husband, three kids, and an assortment of animals. Life may be simple but I love every minute of it.