What are your goats' names?

I love learning names of others' goats!

We have just had 16 kids born to 10 does this season (remember, spring has just begun in the Southern Hemisphere), with 9 of them being does we're going to keep. I've only managed to name the first one so far (Briar), so I have to get busy! I'm sure you can figure out the loose theme I use for all our goats, and any suggestions on what to name the newbies will be taken under grateful consideration. Have 4 Saanen doelings (none of which are pure white), 2 Boer doelings and 1 Boer buckling we're keeping to expand the gene pool, 1 cashgora/boer cross doeling to name still!

Our does are:
Saanens - Hyacinth, Iris, Juniper, Gypsaphylla (Gypsy for short), Ivy, Sweet Cecily (Cecily for short), and Parsley

Boers - Fennel, Marjoram, Carraway

Cashgoras - Bramble (her daughter is Briar), Fragaria and Lupine

Toggenburg - Holly

Arapawa Island - Marina and Paloma



Bucks:
Saanens - Jack by the Roadside (Jack for short) and Buckthorn (Bucky)

Boer - Rowan

Arapawa Island - Manuel

Andrea
NZ

so many nice names.
my nubians are twin girls, becky and daisy. my next one, also a nubian, is coming next week and her name is sarah. her moms name is magie and her grandma is liberty.

Okay first I will go through the past does and bucks/wethers:
Started out with Misty (Saanen), Braveheart (purebred Nubian took GCH), Toughy (pygmy wether that died), Daffodil (my goat),Cam, Cece (stray goat we took in), Max, Petunia, Amelia, Alex, Baby, Maleet, Barbara (Barbie for short), Dainty, Punky Brewster, Danny, Dulcinea and Don Quixote, Saddleback, Boy (a doe who had triplets, all of whom died), Girl (was barren and sold, go figure), Jeeter, and there have been a couple bucklings called "Roachy" and numerous others who were never named..mostly kids sold for meat or pets.

We currently have (in order of age):
Does
~Velvet~ mostly pygmy and our oldest
~Iris(Daffodil's daughter)~half pygmy, half who knows what
~Utopia (Velvet's first)~ half LaMancha, part pygmy
~Danielle (Braveheart's daughter)~ half LaMancha, half Nubian
~Snow White (Misty's daughter)~half LaMancha, half Saanen
~Baby (the second one, Velvet's daughter)~half LaMancha, part pygmy
~Liliana (Maleet's daughter)~ half Nubian, 1/4 LaMancha, and 1/4 Tog (we think)
~Sammie (Baby's daughter)~ half Nubian, 1/4 LaMancha, part pygmy
~Milky Way (Snow White's daughter)~ half Nubian, 1/4 LaMancha, 1/4 Saanen
~Elelgance (Danielle's daughter)~ 3/4 Nubian, 1/4 LaMancha (and appears to be barren as well)
~Marble (Iris' daughter by blood, but raised by Danielle)~ 1/4 pygmy, 1/4 Nubian and the rest is a toss up!
~Squeek-ums (Baby's daughter)~a.k.a. "Kitty," pygmy dairy cross
~Sue-she (Velvet's daughter)~ very pygmy
~Aurora (Snow White's daughter)~ 1/2 Saanen, 1/4 LaMancha, 1/4 Boer
Bucks
~William~ started out as "White buck," 1/2 Boer, 1/2 Saanen
~Charlie~ started out as "Creme buck," 1/2 Boer, 1/4 Alpine, 1/4 Tog

We also have ten wethers (Three Musketeer Bar and Skeeter are two of them, the otehrs are unnamed).

Now, if we were to get into our cow's names you would see some strange ones. :haha:

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Morning Mist Herd
Journey's End Jerseys
Jerseys, Jersey/Norwegian Reds, Beef, Boers, Nubians & crossbreeds

Let's see (all Nubians....their non-herd related portion of their registered name listed first):

the girls:
HighCotton ("Cotton" - came already named)
Jaguar ("Jaguar" - came already named
Gem ("Gem" - came already named)
Simona ("Mona" - came already named)
Moon Pie ("Moony")
Kiss My Grits ("Flo")
High Country ("Loretta")
Mattress Dancer ("Heidi")
Cotton Pickin' ("Edith")

the boys:
Alvarado ("Al")
Mighty Hercules ("Herc" - came already named)


Looking forward to thinkin' up names for next year's kids......have a few ideas, but will be looking for LOTS more.

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Bucks:
Waylan
Swain

Wethers:
Ned
Dale (Dale Earnhardt Jr.)
Billy
Einstein
A.J. (just A.J. It doesn't stand for anything)

Does:
Genie
Spot
Diamond
Louise
C.C. (Again, doesn't stand for anything)
Chatty Cathy
Claudine
Ann


Michele

My nubian is Winifred Despeaux (pronounced "day-PAY-uh"), and my Oberhasli is Anneliese Estella, AKA Winnie and Annie. I like long, elaborate names

Okay, you asked for it

Past goats: (bolded were mine)
(original bunch) Bearded Lady, Big Moma, Billy, Bob, Blondie, White Lightning, Cinnamon
(easter prezzies) Vehlma, Shaggy, Prissy, Paint
Speedy (Gonzalas -- Paint's doe kid)
Stella, Ibex, Moma, S.O.L.D. (Small Odd Little Deer -- a La Mancha), Little Ears, Fuzzy, Fang (Or 'Kiba' -- he was born ...odd... and had one tooth ... and it was a fang), 'Fang's Moma', Dog, Spot, Rootbeer, Big Boy, Doofus, Sister, Pony, Horse, Pi(rate), Jip-Jip (Gypsy), 'Gory

Currents:
Smiley, Smiley's Baby, Cinnamon (the new one), Mule, Salt, Boer, Diesel, Cocoa, Caramel, '56' (C&C's moma!)... there are so many others, I just can't remember half of their names anymore. I'm so bad, lol.

In the past 10 years, we've had roughly 3oo goats come on and off the property. We currently have a herd of about 50 or so.

I FINALLY got my goat....er, make that twin goats today from a rancher my husband works with....their mummy died last night. :waa: I named the bigger one Matilda and the petite one Abigail....they just seemed to fit their personalities!

We purchased 2 nubians, Clarice the doe and Buddy the Buck. After disbudding Buddy died. My son was heartbroken so I desperately looked for another and found an Alpine. He was one of two twins Lewis and Clark. My son chose Lewis. Clarice is now pregnant and hope to have a kid soon.

They have been such a delight. I never new goats could be so much fun.

What an iteresting thread, how did I miss it?
My first two does are 1/2 sisters and were already named..
Over the Rainbow (Rainy) brown spotted
Bip Vin Rose' (Rosey) dark brown with a white splash on her side

Rain's kids are:
Mahogany Rain (Mahogany) red brown with a white belly band
Ebony Raindancer (Dancer) black with white spots all over
Rain O'Champagne (Champagne) a light fawn - she passed away at 4 weeks old.
wether - Quasar looks like Dancer, white with black spots all over

Rose's kids are:
Rose Black Hail (Hailey) black with white trim
wether - Thunder looks like his Aunt, brown spotted

Yetti is my Pyr LGD
and my Dalmations are
Logan who passed away at the end of Oct, Pooki and Dreidel

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Stacy Adams
Zenubi*Creek Nubians
Blue Ridge, Texas

We have Fainters and they are:
Herd sire Niko
Buck Samson
Maggie
Sadie
Spring
past goats,AnnaBella,Stella,Clover,Mister,Twister,and Oreo.Can't wait for kidding season

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Kathy

Some of the ones we had:

Sprite, Mr. Pibb, Arnold Swartzdapygmy, Stillwell Angel...

How fun! This is really a neat thread. We've had PLENTY of goats come through our farm but here are a few.
(boer bucks)Ryker, Snickers, Red Twizzler, Romeo, Sandstone, Ben,
(Boer does)--Stride, Launa, Foxy, "50", Jewel, Ruby, Bitsy, Bonnie, Velma, and Valentina,
(Nubian does), Corinne, Corey, Priscilla, (Alpine does)Checotah, Marmie, (Saanen does) Hugs, Cookies and Cream (cookie), Big-'un, (mixed does) Rose, Meg,(Toggenburg Does) Faylen, Darcy, Ella, Freedom, Lucy Mae, Fantasia, Matilda, Kate, Amelia, (fainter does) Topanga, "mama" and (fainter buck) Thor.
There are many many more that I can't remember currently.
We milk the dairy goats and make cheese and soap from the milk as well as drink it. My favorite thing is to make soap.

Blessings!
Jules

This an interesting thread, very humorous. I often wondered what other people named their goats.

My alpines names are Kit Kat and Peanut Butter (both does). Kit Kat has lighter brown with dark accent colors and Peanut Butter is mostly light brown. My kids also would live on peanut butter if allowed (the food not the goat). My buck we name Smokey due to his grayish black color.

My Nubians names were already given to them before I bought them. They are Jewel, Gilmore, and Ebony. Our wether's name was Meat as that was what he was intended for. We renamed him Moose because he sounds like one. Our last goats name is Gem. Her name was Jewel but we already had one of those so we tried finding something close.

My does names are Sheba, Lilly,Matilda and Olita which was named after my grandaughter. The boys are Dudly, Baratone and the wether named BQ.
My grandaughter was off one day from school so I told her to write a lists of goats names for the kidding season ahead. When I checked her list I noticed that nearly all the names were boys names. I explaned that we didn't need very many boys names. See had picked names of boys that were in her class. I wonder if there were no girls in her class? Hope her grades don't start going down. :no: :no:

Ok here we go, on the farm now are

*Maggie - my original and senior doe
*Clair - my new white doeling for Faithful Farm Nubians in Virginia (her mother was Cream Puff, her twin was Chocolate Eclair and her name is Vanilla Eclair)
*Bodine - a wether and one of Maggies first kids (the other was Jethro)
*Snickers - my new buckling also from Faithful Farm Nubians ( his mother was named after candy - Tootsie, grand mother Toffie and he is chocolate coverd candy with nuts--<g>)

Last year my sister in Kentucky took
*Elizabeth - a daughter of Maggie and very pretty marked and named afther my grand mother because she was born on mother'sday.
*Zack - Maggie's wether son from last year - named Sir Izack Newyears because he was born on January 1.

There has also been *Joker my old buck and his twin brother *Jester who was wethered and sold for a pet- these were born on April 1.
Past kids were *Chilly and *Pepper (just a reminder that they may become chile fixings even though they found pet homes), *Romeo (born on Valintine's day), *Dew Drop (named for my neighbor Dewy on who's birthday she was born, and *Aprilten(born April tenth of course)

Kinders

Does are Cuddles, Livia, Arial, and a grey agouti that hasn't been named yet

Bucks are Prince Charming and Hercules and a week old buckling named Simon

<evil grin> off the top of my head... some dead, some alive...

karen
cindy
minnie
blanche
eve
ruthie
jitterbug
gabrielle
sassy
curly sue
persephone
arielle
azrielle
tafarai
selassie
sonny
emma jean
little man
lady bird
calypso
dottie
griphany
irenie
abilene
toaxie
arwen
aowen
lilly belle
matilda
angelique
angelina
faline
cupcake
ashanna
josina
there's been many more, this is just off the top of my head

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Cathy Sizer
Newland Nubians
www.newlandnubians.com
www.sizerfarm.com (also heavy breed chickens and commercial dorset sheep)
New Castle, VA USA

Strawberry,Cocoa, Milkyway,and Oreo

Well my first goat, my 21st birthday present, was Gerden Germaine. Gerty.
(Bred by an Angora breeder and fathered by a frisky Saanan - a lovely leggy curly angora cross)
Her alternate names were (she's passed on) Flossy Flop Fleece. Flossy.
Gerty Goose.

Current stock is:
1. Doofy. (aka Dufus aka Dufus Doo-bags aka Doodle)
She's Cashmere.

2. Jelly. no alternate names as yet, she's only been with us a while but she is going the right way about getting some good ones!!! You understand...
She's a little Cashmere with attitude.

My 'other ' goats were a few I had at work:
Hilary (aka Hilly-bub) - Cashmere
Paddy - Nubian
Manny - handsome hazel eyed little man - Cashmere
Bridget - Saanen

I also had a cow 'Pretty Ann' who had a calf 'Pretty Small' (aka PA and PS) - thought this line of naming might appeal to breeders

OK that'll do.
Let's not get started on cats, dogs, chickens, rabbits, guinea pigs and horses I have known...

Belinda
Camp Kinglake