How Big is the Herd?

[FarmerChick]

Love your user name...LOL

 

[chandasue]

2 Does, one is hopefully bred.

Edit: forgot to add why I have them! We got them for pets and the milk.

 

[Goatzilla]

I have 2 spoiled rotten Alpine does that are primarily used as cordless weedwhackers.

 

[FarmerChick]

problem with my weedwhackers, they never seem to eat exactly the weeds I want, they seem to hit onto the good shrubs and trees also!


Note to all--never let a ton of goats in your backyard. They don't eat the grass, but they eat absolutely everything else that is planted..hahaha

 

[cmjust0]

A goatkeeping friend of mine had a whole tobacco wagon of started plants for his vegetable garden...a market garden, at that...which he'd rolled out into the sun in the early spring last year to harden them off before planting..

Wanna guess what happened?

 

[KinderKorner]

I currently have three bucks.

And nine does.

Eight of those does are going to kid this spring. One next week. So I'm expecting lots of herd growing soon.

I am buying more to add to my herd all thet time. I actually drove 14 hours and picked up two yesterday.

 

[FarmerChick]

A goatkeeping friend of mine had a whole tobacco wagon of started plants for his vegetable garden...a market garden, at that...which he'd rolled out into the sun in the early spring last year to harden them off before planting..

Wanna guess what happened?

BUFFET!!

 

[Wild Wind Farm]

My herd is 5 horses, 11 Nigerians, 6 does (5 bred I hope), 5 bucks (2 for sale), 3 dogs and 4 cats.

We do competitive trail and 4-H with the horses, lots of fun. We milk and show the goats, I can't wait for babies this spring. The first are due March 3rd. I just can't get enough!

 

[TigerLilly]

I know this is an old post, but I started out looking for something else & stumbled across it...thought it might be fun to get it going again since I'm sure I'm not the only newbie on here. And maybe those that answered previously might like to update their herd status?

I currently have 1 bottle baby ND buck (soon to be wether), 1 possibly preggers ND doe (5 yrs)--bought her that way, but not because of that--Buckley needed a 'friend. Then I found a young ND buck that was just gorgeous, so I had to have him...
and it all started because I lost my favorite dog (RIP Roscoe) but have NEVER been without animals.
Did my research and decided on Nigerian Dwarfs because I like mini critters. That, and I need lawn mowers that dont break down all the time, I'm lactose intolerant and I want to try my hand at making soap one day!

 

[KinderKorner]

Sure I'll post.

I have 18 total right now.

4 Reg Kinder Bucks

1 Reg Nubian Buckling

10 Reg Kinder Does

2 Unreg Kinder Does

1 Reg Nubian Doeling

The Nubians, and one of the kinder bucklings are going sometime.

And the other 12 does will be kidding this fall and spring. So I should have around 50 goats in the spring.