I think I'm getting a goat!

[ladycat]

I'll be getting a call tonight or in the morning to find out for sure. This is a goat in milk now. Just a grade doe, but she'll do. It's raw milk!

[Minelson]

Yeah for you!!! Post a picture if you can...do you have other goats for her to be friends with?

[Alice In TX/MO]

Wooo Hoooo! Congratulations.

[jBlaze]

Get more than one or it will suffer from lonlieness! Please learn about the major common goat diseases first. CAE, CL and Johnes.
Goats are great.

[ladycat]

I've had goats before, so I'm not a complete newbie, but I'll probably still have questions sometimes.

We're still looking for goats so we can get a second one. I want 2 so I can stagger breedings and have a more even supply of milk the year around. She won't be lonely for long.

[ladycat]

Update. The man called and told me to come get two nubians. One has been getting milked already, and the other has had a kid weaned off of her this past week.

Which means both can be milked now, and I'm wondering if I should milk both.

I've only ever had one milk goat at a time, and I'm trying to remember breeding seasons. My mother milked a herd of goats for years and she staggered the breedings to even out the milk production.

When I had pygmies they just ran loose together in a herd and were like having puppies around LOL. I never milked them.

[Alice In TX/MO]

I would milk them both.

[Cara]

If it were me, I would milk both for the summer. Any extra milk would become mozzarella for the freezer. Then as early as you get a heat (probably late August or early September) I would breed one. The other I would wait until early February and stay right on top of her heats because she might only have two or three before spring. Hope they do well for you!