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Community => Marketplace => Topic started by: Crofter on July 06, 2013, 03:14:30 pm

Title: Milking Goats or goatlings wanted.
Post by: Crofter on July 06, 2013, 03:14:30 pm
Hi all.

We will be looking to increase our goats at the end of the summer and will be looking for two or three milkers, in kid does or goatlings.
We would like goats with a reasonable milk yield and though breed is not critical we probably wouldn't want Anglo Nubians.
Life would be a lot simpler if we can find stock in Scotland (We're on the Isle of Lewis) but would travel to get them if they were what we wanted.

Any and all help welcome, including details of people you know who we could contact.

Dave
Title: Re: Milking Goats or goatlings wanted.
Post by: clydesdaleclopper on July 06, 2013, 08:31:46 pm
You could try Sylvia Mearns near Aberdeen. She is part of the Grampian Goat Club. We got a nice BS from her.
Title: Re: Milking Goats or goatlings wanted.
Post by: fiestyredhead331 on July 06, 2013, 09:06:49 pm
try Sinne goats, look them up on facebook, they are near stornoway, I'm coming over to get kids from them in a couple of weeks  :wave:
Title: Re: Milking Goats or goatlings wanted.
Post by: Anke on July 06, 2013, 09:54:43 pm
Hi Dave - just advertised recently my BT nanny Lochinvar Beech and her goatling daughter. Please look further down. Nanny is 4 years old, will need to be kidded again next spring. Milk recorded last year - 1305kgs and butterfats never dropped below 4%. Currently running through on 3.5ltrs per day.
 
Her goatling daughter Alewater Cornelia also by good sire - Guilden Cherokee.
 
I could arrange to get them in-kid for you, but would probably not be able to do so before end of September. I have used the Guilden herd near Dundee for my BT's.
Title: Re: Milking Goats or goatlings wanted.
Post by: Crofter on July 07, 2013, 01:17:38 pm
Thank you folks!

I'll PM you Anke.

Dave