Jaime
Loving the herd life
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A little information about myself. I live on a small family farm on 37 acres of land located in western NY. We've raised poultry, swine, beef/jersey cows, and equine. Just last year we recently got into goats, more specifically Nigerian Dwarfs. We started out with two wethers just as pets, but after looking more into the breed and the benefits of raising goats for milk and such we decided to get into breeding. So we bought a little buckling, and two doelings, unregistered. Then I decided I wanted registered animals.. Sooo we came across a family who was getting out of breeding their nigerians, bought 4 does and their buck from them for cheap, ended up banding and selling our original buckling, and kept our two original does since I had grown too close to part with them.
Kidding season came and flew by! All of our does had kidded, had a little issue with toxemia but besides that i'd say we had a successful first kidding season We managed to sell all of our kids, and kept gradually adding to our herd..
We went from having two wethers to 12 does and 4 bucks! Goats can definitely be addicting
My herd mainly consists of pet quality nigerians, so my goal is to start with what I have and breed for better milk production and body confirmation. I've invested in a couple of bucks from some good lines to help get things going, but i'm happy with what i have for now and can't wait to seriously start breeding I've just started working out my breeding schedule for 2021. It's been fun so far trying to figure out who's going with who.
This thread will mainly just be a journal about my progress with goats and the farm that i'll try and update weekly, feel free to read along~
Kidding season came and flew by! All of our does had kidded, had a little issue with toxemia but besides that i'd say we had a successful first kidding season We managed to sell all of our kids, and kept gradually adding to our herd..
We went from having two wethers to 12 does and 4 bucks! Goats can definitely be addicting
My herd mainly consists of pet quality nigerians, so my goal is to start with what I have and breed for better milk production and body confirmation. I've invested in a couple of bucks from some good lines to help get things going, but i'm happy with what i have for now and can't wait to seriously start breeding I've just started working out my breeding schedule for 2021. It's been fun so far trying to figure out who's going with who.
This thread will mainly just be a journal about my progress with goats and the farm that i'll try and update weekly, feel free to read along~
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