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  1. LadyNai

    Post Pictures of Goat Face Close-Ups!

    This was William Buckley, renamed Butthead by my cousin and I (my mother called him Mr. Butthead) - don't let his expression fool you he was mean as a snake and made excellent brats once breeding season was over. (We have had really nice bucks over the years, I don't know what was up with this...
  2. LadyNai

    Goat breed questions

    We have alpines (And had them when I was a child as well) - and they can be escape artists. In fact, I have not met a goat that was NOT an escape artist. (They were ALMOST as bad as the Shetland I had as a kid, and that was bad) What works for us are cattle panels from Rural King wired down...
  3. LadyNai

    Showing off my boys - new pic of Saturday @ 10 mos

    I LOVE Bullitt. Was admiring him on your website, he really is a handsome guy!
  4. LadyNai

    do thistles=nasty milk?

    I don't recall any issues with thistles. Wild garlic on the other hand? Let's just say the milk was undrinkable for a bit. :P
  5. LadyNai

    dairy goat feed mix?

    We just give sweet feed from Rural King and alfalfa. Does pretty well we get good milk when we're milking (not at the moment)
  6. LadyNai

    raising friendly goats

    This is what did puzzle me when I moved back with the parents. Mom and Dad had a Boer buck, a pretty thing as Boer's go but the most obnoxious aggressive thing. (Mom named him William H. Buckley but my cousin and I nicknamed him Butthead, which stuck) Once he got his job done he became...
  7. LadyNai

    Hello from Southern Indiana (and BYC)

    We currently have Alpines. Eventually I want a lamancha or two.
  8. LadyNai

    Offered free does - will it work?

    Having grown up with goats (and about five other types of critters) I will tell you this - if they CAN get out of something they WILL. I'd almost say it might be just alpines but we still all remember the fall where the unregistered nubian buck flew the coop and decided he REALLY liked our...
  9. LadyNai

    Hello from Southern Indiana (and BYC)

    Hi! My name is Naomi and I'm from the Nashville, IN area. We have goats, chickens, quail and soon three total alpacas. PLUS we are getting turkeys soon. :D We raise our goats mainly for milk and my mother and I are spinners, so we'll be spinning alpaca fleece. I would like to get some...
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