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Thanks. The goats are Toggenburgs. I built the stanchon out of a bunch of lumber that we had laying around. Unfortunately most of it was 2x6's so it's heavy. I don't plan to move it but 1 more time into a milking barn once it's built.

Since I work in Sidney, I went to Cabelas when I started my knife shopping. I also looked around on Amazon, etc. to see if I could find them any cheaper. I wasn't able to so I bought them at Cabelas. I saw some that were on sale but they weren't the ones I wanted. If I wouldn't have had a 1,000...

The first one I bought was the Bush Camp. I then got the Steelheader. Those knives will probably handle everything I would ever have the chance to use them on, and outlast me. I can't say enough good things about them. The only complaint I had was on the sheath for the Steelheader - I've never...

I had the opportunity to process my father in laws longhorn steer, and I decided I needed a good knife for that project. I had always used whatever I had for deer and other smaller animals and most were fairly cheap. I bought a Knives of Alaska knife and it was hard to justify the cost. I got it...

I'll toss in my $.02. A pair of goats will likely provide you with all the milk you need at a huge fraction of the cost of feed. I talked with a dairy owner and she feeds roughly 9 pounds of feed per goat. Their dairy cows (granted full size production cows) are fed in the neighborhood of 90...

We have the Henry milker. I got it because the people that owned our Nigerian used it on her and she did fine. I used it last year on her and it worked well. This year we got 2 Toggenburgs from a dairy that had a mainline system (at least I think that's what it's called). I used the Henry...

Here are a couple of pictures of mine. I built it with three slots "just in case". It's 4 feet wide and 3 feet deep. The front legs are dug down to make it level since we are on a hill. The goats seem to like it and it's easy for me to sit in the middle to milk. I can also milk from behind the...

I feel I should update my previous post. We now have 7 babies in the last three days. Our Nigerian older doe had triplets and one of the boers had a doeling. We weren't expecting the boers to start yet as they didn't look as far along. As for comparing the milk - right now I have to go off...

I have drank a lot of the toggs milk. We are getting over a gallon and a half a day. Compared to the Nigerian it's not quite as rich or creamy but has a good taste. I don't have any complaints about it. I gave my parents a quart to try and they liked it even knowing it was "goat milk." The...

We do all of our own processing. We've done chickens, rabbits, quail, goats, deer, waterfowl, turkeys and even a longhorn steer (long story). We like knowing where our food came from and that we aren't getting somebody else's animal that may not have been raised the same as ours. It's more work...

Greetings from not too far away (200 miles) in western Nebraska. We raised quail last year and they are addictive. We started with 20 or so coturnix and hatched over 200 by the fall. They are prolific egg layers.

Hello all. My wife and I ventured into the goat world about a year ago and I just found this forum. We live in Ogallala Nebraska, and have 2 toggenburgs, 5 Nigerian dwarfs (and 3 babies in the last 3 days) and 8 boer goats. We started with the Nigerians and then added the boers. We then got the...

I'm fairly new to all of this and here is what I am doing: Live in western Nebraska temps from -20 to 104 (sometimes it seems like in the same week). We have 2 toggenburgs, 5 Nigerian dwarfs and 8 boer goats. For the toggs they get free feed 4th cutting alfalfa as much as they want, cracked...