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MommaBugg

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Just a scraggler from the BYC forum. Looking for good info and other resources for meat rabbits and dwarf dairy or DP goats!
 
Welcome. :D

It's late and I'm not firing on all my cylinders....but what's a DP goat?
 
Roll farms said:
Welcome. :D

It's late and I'm not firing on all my cylinders....but what's a DP goat?
Sorry LOL .. DP is dual purpose.. I dunno if they use that terminology for goats or not.. I am a chicken person, so I am used to using chicken terms :P

BTW, Thanks for the warm welcome folks!
 
Welcome aboard! Always glad to see another Michigander!
 
Well, shucks....I thought maybe they'd invented a new kind of goat that I'd just *have* to run out and get. ;)

By dual-purpose, if you still want dwarf sized - pygmys are 'meat' goats and Nigerians are dairy, so if you crossed the two, you'd technically have a dual purpose dwarf goat.
The pygmy blood may lower the milk quantity, but both breeds are 'bulky' little goats who, if fed out properly, should butcher fine. Less meat than a standard, of course...but if you don't need much milk or meat, they'd give you what you want, at least in theory.

I myself prefer great ol' big udders that give me 8# of milk a day and that I can milk w/ more than 2 fingers.
 
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