newby questions

[buslady]

If I buy a goat that is now milking, when do you breed her back? I know with a horse we breed on the 9th day after birthing, but I know nothing about goats.Is there somewhere I can find some answers to these questions?. Thank you. Buslady

[steff bugielski]

Most goats go into heat in the fall.

[buslady]

Thank you. I am an old lady, but I feel like a new newby with goats. Thank you.

[crazygoatgal]

I try to breed my does so that they kid the same time each year and only once a year. My Nigerians go into heat all year long, so I can actually milk a doe for as long as she produces without re-breeding and still have some flexibility in the breeding schedule. My one doe milked for 15 months (well) and I dried her up so that her body could concentrate on being healthy and in turn grow healthy babies. But I am a bit neurotic. Obviously any doe is going to taper in production as time goes on. Good luck.

[Vicki McGaugh TX Nubians]

Count ahead 150 days (5 months) when do you want to be without milk for 30 days and be out in the barn 1000 times seeing if she has kidded yet If your weather in the winter is awful pick October to breed, they then kid in March, much nicer weather for us old gals Vicki

[buslady]

I'm looking for a LaMancha. I have never had one, but I have read about the different breeds, and it seems they are the calmest. My husband will be doing most of the chores, but I want to make cheese and yogurt. We milked cows when we were younger, but we did not know that you could make cheese at home. Oh, the gallons of milk that we poured out; if only we had known. I would skim the cream, make butter, and pour out the milk. She milked about three gallon a day, with the calf running with her. She was a good one.
I bought a gallon of Saaen goat milk($6.)Saturday, to see if I could drink the milk. I was really surprised. It tasted just like Jersey milk. The goat was not for sale, or I would have bought it. I cooked dinner today, using the goat milk, and did not tell our kids. The potato soup was delicious; after telling my son it was goat milk, I gave him a glass of milk to drink. He and our daughter-in-law then gave us the money to buy our own. They said they would love to have milk, but with both working long hours, and no property, they cannot have anything like that. We have 20 acres, 3 horses, and now 23 chickens, and now have tie time to do what we want to do.
I am printing off all the information you give me. Thanks again. Buslady