What do you do with YOUR goats ???

[Queen Mum]

Officially, I tell people I raise the does as mothers to pack goat babies and for milk to make cheese. And that the bucks are for breeding to the does so I can have potential wethers for sale as pack goats, but unofficially, the facts are as follows:

Mine are part of an intense income reduction program. They eat up my income as fast as it comes in. ]

Secondary to that, they keep me company and entertain me endelessly with many antics and amusements.

Third, they are quite educational. I have learned to make cheese because if I didn't I would find no justification for their primary and secondary purpose.

Fourth, they are very friendly and keep me happy with their companionship.

Fifth, one of them keeps me quite fit, by causing me to chase him whenever he escapes his enclosure. Alas, he seems to be somewhat lax in his responsibilities of late. He's been laying around alot and complaining that I'm not feeding him enough to give him the energy to bulldoze down the side of his pen. (That would be Houdini.) And since rutting season is officially coming to an end, he is complaining that there are not girls to chase.

Sixth, the girls, keep me on my toes during kidding season by giving me grandchildren to care for and babysit.

Seventh, they are quite addicting so they feed an addiction.

I could go on and on, but I think you get the idea.

They are far from useless, I think... But they find me rather vexatious as I have been repeatedly told that I should feed them more dried banana peels and that I am not making goat cookies fast enough to satisfy them.

 

[Mamaboid]

Officially, I tell people I raise the does as mothers to pack goat babies and for milk to make cheese. And that the bucks are for breeding to the does so I can have potential wethers for sale as pack goats, but unofficially, the facts are as follows:

Mine are part of an intense income reduction program. They eat up my income as fast as it comes in. ]

Secondary to that, they keep me company and entertain me endelessly with many antics and amusements.

Third, they are quite educational. I have learned to make cheese because if I didn't I would find no justification for their primary and secondary purpose.

Fourth, they are very friendly and keep me happy with their companionship.

Fifth, one of them keeps me quite fit, by causing me to chase him whenever he escapes his enclosure. Alas, he seems to be somewhat lax in his responsibilities of late. He's been laying around alot and complaining that I'm not feeding him enough to give him the energy to bulldoze down the side of his pen. (That would be Houdini.) And since rutting season is officially coming to an end, he is complaining that there are not girls to chase.

Sixth, the girls, keep me on my toes during kidding season by giving me grandchildren to care for and babysit.

Seventh, they are quite addicting so they feed an addiction.

I could go on and on, but I think you get the idea.

They are far from useless, I think... But they find me rather vexatious as I have been repeatedly told that I should feed them more dried banana peels and that I am not making goat cookies fast enough to satisfy them.

 

[poorboys]

first, they are my compaions, I just love em. I breed my Nubies for the milk, ice cream and occasional chees, sell their offspring to some 4-hers, or just to others that want a nice Nubian, I breed my boers, my dh turned us on to the meat, so wethers we keep and will end up in the freezer, only 2 a year, the does we retain or sell. I take walks with my goats, I go out in the pasture and turn around and everyone including the dogs are all following me, I talk to them and always tell them good=nite. They eat up my wallet, and sometimes confuse me, but in the end they are there as my friends.

 

[crazyland]

Well we have 4 does, 2 wethers, one buck and one buckling.
What they do is nothing but eat. They aren't very good at brush control as the brush grew taller than me. They tease the dogs. My son rides one of the wethers. And we just stare at them in the pastures.

What I would like them for is milk, meat, 4H and a little income to offset cost. We just aren't to that point yet.

 

[peteyfoozer]

We have 2 Nubian does
They fill in milking the two months that my Jersey cow is dry.
Milk/Cheese
Weed Control
Providing for orphans of all kinds

 

[zzGypsy]

We have 2 Nubian does
They fill in milking the two months that my Jersey cow is dry.
Milk/Cheese
Weed Control
Providing for orphans of all kinds

http://i1010.photobucket.com/albums/af228/peteyfoozer/IMG_0323.jpg

ah I see you're using what my hubby calls "the direct deposit system"

 

[Queen Mum]

We have 2 Nubian does
They fill in milking the two months that my Jersey cow is dry.
Milk/Cheese
Weed Control
Providing for orphans of all kinds

http://i1010.photobucket.com/albums/af228/peteyfoozer/IMG_0323.jpg

Does she know that isn't her baby? Has anyone told her?

 

[peteyfoozer]

This is the most cantankerous goat I had ever known.
No one knows why she liked this calf!

http://forpeteysake.blogspot.com/2011/05/moose-in-milk-room.html

 

[RPC]

My goats are for my nieces to show and sell in 4-H

 

[Queen Mum]

I read the blog. I understand perfectly why she has a cow and accepts Moose. She knows that Moose is hers and was waiting for him to come along. Clearly we are all desitined for our little soulmates of sorts. Prissy's timing is just a bit "off". Poor thing.