Bekkidotes
Chillin' with the herd
Hello, all!
My name is Bekki and I'm a 24 year old coastal Virginia girl who has been living in and loving rural Iowa for about 8 months now! My boyfriend and I recently started keeping goats and I've since realized how great it is just to be plugged into a community that values the outdoors and sharing knowledge. I know I have a lot to learn. I am also learning to vegetable garden with my significant other and we would like to eventually breed Nigerian Dwarf goats and add some ducks or chickens to the family. Since I am grad school bound in the fall, we are trying to start veeeeeeerrrrryyyy slowly and not do too much since I'll be mostly unavailable for two and half years. Although I have to sheepishly (goatishly?) admit that we are considering adding two angora goats to the family this weekend (I'll have to let you know how that works out!)
I've tried to attach some picture of our little herd, hopefully it works
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Our miniature Boer goat, Cappuccino, is very sweet and has a great story of how he came to be with us. A meat goat farmer we found in Iowa had purchased an "open" Boer doe. It turns out, not so much... three months later she gave birth to the little 50 lb runt that we know and love. He didn't know what to do with him, but kept him for a year until Cap decided he wanted to use his small size and escape artist abilities to break into the does pen again and again and again. I'm not even sure if he could breed a regular Boer doe due to his size but he apparently was very motivated to try!! The farmer got so sick of it he offered us little Cap for free if we would only drive up and get him away from his does ASAP! He is quite the escape artist if females are around, but we love him and that hasn't been an issue at goat-themed sausage fest that is now my backyard. I told my dad this story and his addition was, "Well, if they didn't know the doe was pregnant, it seems like your goat's dad was quite an escape artist, too."
My name is Bekki and I'm a 24 year old coastal Virginia girl who has been living in and loving rural Iowa for about 8 months now! My boyfriend and I recently started keeping goats and I've since realized how great it is just to be plugged into a community that values the outdoors and sharing knowledge. I know I have a lot to learn. I am also learning to vegetable garden with my significant other and we would like to eventually breed Nigerian Dwarf goats and add some ducks or chickens to the family. Since I am grad school bound in the fall, we are trying to start veeeeeeerrrrryyyy slowly and not do too much since I'll be mostly unavailable for two and half years. Although I have to sheepishly (goatishly?) admit that we are considering adding two angora goats to the family this weekend (I'll have to let you know how that works out!)
I've tried to attach some picture of our little herd, hopefully it works
Our miniature Boer goat, Cappuccino, is very sweet and has a great story of how he came to be with us. A meat goat farmer we found in Iowa had purchased an "open" Boer doe. It turns out, not so much... three months later she gave birth to the little 50 lb runt that we know and love. He didn't know what to do with him, but kept him for a year until Cap decided he wanted to use his small size and escape artist abilities to break into the does pen again and again and again. I'm not even sure if he could breed a regular Boer doe due to his size but he apparently was very motivated to try!! The farmer got so sick of it he offered us little Cap for free if we would only drive up and get him away from his does ASAP! He is quite the escape artist if females are around, but we love him and that hasn't been an issue at goat-themed sausage fest that is now my backyard. I told my dad this story and his addition was, "Well, if they didn't know the doe was pregnant, it seems like your goat's dad was quite an escape artist, too."
The sweet guy will never be OK with butchering an animal he's raised, and I think the most I could raise for slaughter would be fish or fowl, I just get too attached to the four-legged fellas! The two angora goats he is interested in are wethers, so if we buy them we are planning to give them a nice loving forever home and get our feet wet with the idea of fiber goats, shearing, etc. He also is working 14+ hours a day right now (poor man) so the idea of not having to milk a goat every morning but still getting a product to offset the cost of raising them really appeals to him!
Thanks for sharing the pics! You have some very adorable goats 
Please add at least a general location to your profile... If you ask for help or advice, normally the first thing anyone wanting to help will need to know is where you're located. I'm in NE TX and what would work here might not work where you are... I'm getting old and will never remember the location you posted above, later on 
Make yourself at home!
