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Author Topic: Choosing new dairy goat and milking once a day  (Read 9457 times)

macgro7

  • Joined Feb 2016
  • Leicester
Re: Choosing new dairy goat and milking once a day
« Reply #30 on: February 17, 2017, 05:44:22 pm »
Doncaster is actually not that far from us - 60ish miles.
How big would go x boer get? Have you got some pictures of them?
I'm going to see those guys tomorrow:
http://www.preloved.co.uk/adverts/show/116205698/goats-for-sale.html?link=%2Fsearch%3Fkeyword%3DGoat
Growing loads of fruits and vegetables! Raising dairy goats, chickens, ducks, rabbits on 1/2 acre in the middle of the city of Leicester, using permaculture methods.

Lesley Silvester

  • Joined Sep 2011
  • Telford
Re: Choosing new dairy goat and milking once a day
« Reply #31 on: February 18, 2017, 12:23:11 am »
Ok thanks you!
May I know how big is your enclosure for zero grazed goats?
If anyone knows where to get or has some spare males of smaller breeds like guernsey or bagot I might take those instead. Just to get used to taking care for goats then in the future might expand to millers of perhaps standard large breeds.


I've not actually measured but it's about 5m x 7m plus the shed which is 2m x 3m. I have four in there at the moment but two is a better number.

 

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