first baby goats.

[misfitmorgan]

we offered our herd for that here, no takers

People here are cheap and we dont have many wild fires though.

 

[Devonviolet]

Actually I am not milking at all, I got them to keep the fire hazard down after I sold my horse. Hopefully I will find some people that wish to form community here that would like to take advantage of the resource, but I dont want to tie myself down to it.

It would be helpful if you put your location into your profile info. That way if you want/need to connect with someone, on BYH, you can find someone closer to you.

Latestarter lives about 45 minutes from us. So, when I needed a buck, to breed my girls to, he offered and DH and I were able to drive to Latestarter's farm to pick up and return his buck.

 

[Latestarter]

She called my place a "FARM"! It's a house with a little land, a short, fat, loosing his hair, old guy (me), a beautiful LGD companion dog, unfinished fencing, and a few goats... SOME day it MIGHT be a farm... All that aside, it is helpful if folks put at least their general location in their profile. It is important when asking for (or offering) help/advice.

 

[Devonviolet]

She called my place a "FARM"! It's a house with a little land, a short, fat, loosing his hair, old guy (me), a beautiful LGD companion dog, unfinished fencing, and a few goats... SOME day it MIGHT be a farm...

You crack me up @Latestarter!

The way I see it, You have acreage, and livestock (goats) that you feed with hay. That ought to qualify your place for farm status. Or would it be called a ranch, as in horse or cattle ranch??? Or, at the very least it would be a homestead. Right???

ETA: Oh, and you have a lawn "tractor" that you mow your pastures with! That's gotta be worth something, toward calling your place a "farm"!!!

 

[George Ann]

So you're going to open like a lawn care service but with goats? Call it a brush care service? Rent them out to help others keep their fire hazard brush under control? Hmmm might work. I see ads on Craig's list looking for or offering goats for brush clearing.

No, just for my place. My original thought was just the brush but I now realize that selling the offspring once a year will pay my taxes and keep the herd to a number that the acreage will support.

 

[Bayleaf Meadows]

No, just for my place. My original thought was just the brush but I now realize that selling the offspring once a year will pay my taxes and keep the herd to a number that the acreage will support.

George Ann, where do you live?

 

[George Ann]

George Ann, where do you live?

I am 4 mi west of Roosevelt, TX. Right in between Junction and Sonora just off IH-10

 

[Latestarter]

When I looked up your location, here's the response: "Roosevelt is a ghost town located 16 miles west of Junction on State Highway Loop 291 in Kimble County, Texas, United States." You're not a ghost are you?

 

[Alaskan]

I am 4 mi west of Roosevelt, TX. Right in between Junction and Sonora just off IH-10

awesome! I have some great -whatever-grandparents in the Junction cemetery. Bode... if you ever stop and look. Only those. .. the rest of my relatives from that area are buried in Castell, or Cold Creek, which is near Mason. Great land...but dry

Anyway, I would think a week apart would be best... so each mom gets a private spot for a week after she kids.

Not that that is always possible. Also, a mom and daughter pair will be much more likely to happily kid together. But, it always boils down to the individual personalities and your herd dynamics.

Soooooo ... keep a close eye on them, and guess. Good luck!

If you have a semi-sheltered spot.. say a predator proof area under a tree clump... you could stick a mom and 2 or 3 day old kids there. ... and a mom about to kid can have the plush spot in the barn.

Do you have a carport or garage? Give that area to the goats for a week? For kidding and the first week... they can have a pretty small space.

 

[Alaskan]

Oh... the Leifester general store in Castell ... those are cousins.