Anyone here live in OK.?

[ne prairiemama]

We're considering relocating...wondering how goat keeping is down there

[jcatblum]

I have boer & Nubian. My black Nubian finds more shade than my lighter color goats. She will leave the heard & go up in the tree line much earlier in the day than the others do. I would love to say I would avoid dark colored goats here, but just picked up 2 black white boer bucklings--- no self control when I see good looking kids! Plus my black Nubian is my best, makes milking easy & gives big fast growing babies! I don't have any issues keeping goats at my place, just make sure they have shade & keep them wormed.

[wvsjwest]

I lived in Ok 30 miles SW of Lawton Had the worst drought of the past 30 years or more lost 9 trees (mature) in my yard. We had several goats Saanen, Nubians and boar Nubian crosses the goats did really well, But Mom not so well. I moved back to WV and brought my 2 best girls, bre
d and a buckling and came back the green county. I needed to know I could live off the land, if need be. You can't grow a garden when you are on year around water rationing. I'm glad to be back in WV but I did like it there and if I would have been in another part the drought might not have been as bad.

[GraceAlice]

If you don't have them swept away by a tornado it should be alright... but I do know it won't be fun at all in the heat.

I would suggest somewhere with a better climate... maybe Oregon... Washington... somewhere over there. Not OK or KS. lol I am running out of this state as soon as possible!

[Suzyq2u]

/waves We like it here!

[Buckhuntr]

Originally Posted by Suzyq2u

/waves We like it here!

Ditto!

[okiemom]

the problem with Oklahoma and goats are worms. there is a lot of Bermuda grass here and goats just won't do well with out a lot of worming. if they are in a lot of brush they will do better but worms and pneumonia are hard on kids.

the summers are so humid in the ne and even in central ok that the goats have a hard time. We raised meat goats for 7+ years and got out of them when the years of drought kept making the electric fence ungroundable. goats take a lot of fencing to keep them in and it is very expensive. the coyotes would also get several of the babies even with two pyrs. we ran them on two different properties one in the ne corner of the state an one herd in se. ok.

Most everyone else we knew in goats got out before us. it is very doable on a small scale but for a large commercial meat herd it is almost impossible.

[ne prairiemama]

Thanks all! We are in Nebraska right now but if we walk 10 ft to the South we're in KS. So already in tornado alley lol.

suzyq and buck would you mind telling me what area you are in there? we were considering somewhere around Tulsa, Norman or Lawton (family in Lawton but I like the look of the eastern part of the state )

[Suzyq2u]

I'll send you a PM

[Buckhuntr]

West of Tulsa, between Sapulpa and Sand Springs.

[LoneStrChic23]

Aw, Oklahoma ain't too bad....Lots of goat folks there, plus you can sell milk there off the farm, unlike here in Texas with our stupidly strict milk laws...

[ne prairiemama]

YAY thanks all! This is exciting I like goat folks and our milk laws here are stupid. You can sell it but you can't advertise it here.....

Do you all in the Northern or central part of the state usually have any lack of water water troubles? Can you fish there? The water sorta clean?

[Pony]

Hey, don't forget Goat-friendly MO!

[dozedotz]

I just read this morning on Yahoo or Drudge or someplace that the FDA is going to go after AGAIN and HARDER the non-pasteurized milk drinking folks...I bet that means they hit selling milk off the farm, too. Don't know if moving any place will change or help you on that score...