Approved!

[RollingAcres]

Oh, someone asked about the chickens...I'm hoping to get Rhode Island Reds and a few Buff Orpingtons. I also like the Easter Eggers. So, basically, a mixture of breeds.

Ants and spiders are taking over the backyard so I'm especially eager to get some hen assassins out there!

Will you be ordering them online or get them locally?

 

[Genipher]

Will you be ordering them online or get them locally?

Locally.

 

[TAH]

Exactly! And you've been around my kids. The little girls especially love hugging on animals. They would be the ones to get their faces stabbed!

Have you thought about selling Tabby and replace her with a hornless doe?

I have but am not going to... I have her on getting halter trained and any time i'm doing anything where I'm in there pen for awhile I'll tie her up.

 

[babsbag]

Congratulations on getting approved for goats. Remember that if you want to milk them you need to find someone with a buck to breed to every year. I doubt that one of your three approved goats is going to be a buck. I have LaManchas, Alpines, and mini alpines and the noisiest goat in my herd is an obnoxious bottle raised LaMancha. She wants my attention nonstop and it makes me crazy. The rest of my goats (I have over 50 of them) are very quiet.

I don't know where in OR you live but if you are still looking for goats come Feb-March I will have some (lots) for sale. I don't show, I have a dairy, but my goats are good milkers, healthy and tested. They are registered with ADGA or the Mini dairy goat association. This will be my last year raising minis, it is just too hard to have another buck and to keep the smaller goats away from my standard sized bucks during rut. I will breed them and probably sell them bred.

 

[Alaskan]

I have one horned milk goat... she is the best milk goat ever... even people who have sworn off goats want to own her.

She is that good!

So... as to horns being bad... eh... I think it super depends on the personality of the goat.

As to sound. I think my Saanen are the quietest.

Nubians and Boars are LOUD!