What age goats to start out with for dairy herd?

[Mini-M Ranch]

Oh, and according to google maps, I am 6 hours from you Griffin...why am I 6 hours from everywhere??

 

[freemotion]

My fence is four feet tall with a strand of yellow (quite visible!) electric tape and it keeps all my girls in. Yet to be seen if it will keep a buckling kid in! But the does and doeling never even think about jumping over it. AND I drove five hours to get my full-size doe and put her in the back seat of my car!!!! (Don't tell dh..... He thinks I stuffed her in a dog crate!)

I am an enabler and proud of it!

 

[cmjust0]

What's wrong with a 4' chainlink fence? We have 4' woven wire in some spots and it works fine..

I know how goats are supposedly notorious for being expert escape artists and all but, really...not so much. Not in my experience, anyway. So long as the average goat has what it needs on your side of the fence, it won't bother trying to go elsewhere.

 

[Mini-M Ranch]

Well, I reckon there is nothing wrong with 4' chain link...I just keep imagining Nubian goats using their incredible ears to sail their way over the fence to nibble various and sundry illegal wares.

So, are you all pm'ing each other to gang up on me so I will drive to Griffin's Ark to get a goat? I sense a conspiracy!

 

[freemotion]

You know you want to......

 

[kstaven]

My Toggenburgs stay contained with a 4 foot fence. Single strand Electric wire at the bottom.

 

[zatsenoughcritters4me]

if you could find a goat dairy close to you, you could go and visit and check them out. My saanen's are wonderful mellow goats. My old mamma is 4 now, and she will jump on the milk stantion and be ready for milking time. my fences for the goats are not quite 4 feet, and they stay in quite well. We got our first girl from a saanen dairy farm down the road that my husband did their plumbing, and they let us check out how they did things, and it really helped. they also picked out our girl, made sure she had a good background and she is a champion milker, and we got her bred, so her baby is full blood registered also.
I did a search and found this site..
http://duhgoatman.tripod.com/wv.htm
it has lots of goat dairy farms in your state, maybe one is close by??
good luck!

 

[Griffin's Ark]

Well, I reckon there is nothing wrong with 4' chain link...I just keep imagining Nubian goats using their incredible ears to sail their way over the fence to nibble various and sundry illegal wares.

So, are you all pm'ing each other to gang up on me so I will drive to Griffin's Ark to get a goat? I sense a conspiracy!

I didn't look at the second page yet, but I have no fence higher than 47". My goats love me and won't even think about leaving their appointed places (really I'm telling the truth)(well mostly) Cisco and Ginger went under the fence the other day (to lazy and fat to jump) You want me to start sending pictures now?



Chris

P.S. We even have a motor home you can stay in so you won't have to make the drive in one day!

 

[Griffin's Ark]

Who could resist this face?

Floyd is an unregistered Nubian buckling who was bottle fed. He is about the friendliest guy you will meet. He has a girl friend too. Her name is Wendy (she came to us with Tink and Pan). Wendy is an Oberhasli Percentage (25% Kiko for durability). They will be ready to breed by November or December. Wendy is the girl in the middle.

I don't have a picture of Kona who is presently milking, but she is an Oberhasli and a pretty one. She is not a great milker on the production side, but she is a very easy milker and her production has increased slowly since we got her about a month and a half ago.

Really! Quit calling me an enabler!

Chris

 

[helmstead]

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