Goats

We brought home our goats last night. The drive was an 8 hour round trip to central New Mexico. We had to travel that far to find some good goats. After doing a search in the local area I found few who had dairy goats to begin with, and those that did didn't take good care of them. The situation that I bought the goats from this time was much like my first goats experience. This lady has 100 goats, she is starting a dairy, but not operational yet, and really has too many to handle.

I had several to pick from but only found two suitable for our needs which is quantity of milk. We ran into a situation we hadn't planned on but in the long run we think it will be fun. One of the goats has a two week old buckling on her. However she produces way more than he needs so there is enough for us to have also.

One is an Alpine, the other is a Lamancha. Both are nice looking goaties and we are looking forward to their milk and their babies. Together they gave me 1/2 gallon this morning.

Until I get some pictures posted of them you can view what the two breeds look like by going to this site http://www.ansi.okstate.edu/breeds/goats/ and using the alphabetical listings find their breeds.

Denise