Our first purchase was a chestnut coloured girl and a nigerian dwarf girl.
Really?! I didn't know you could get NGs in this country! I looked into them and thought that their milk production for that size of goat was brilliant, also liked the sound of the milk
How have you found her?
Hi Mad Goatwoman of Madeley!
I really am sorry; I've always had goats since I was 9 and can't imagine life without them
I agree, and we thought that as we want to produce as much of our livestock's food as we can 2 cows would struggle, even with supplementing their diet year round. Therefore goats would be better. It's all a bit complicated really; we own 10 acres but my dad has always wanted to be a big commercial farmer so rents ground to run a suckler herd and arable enterprise. My partner and I,( complete history nerds), want to have a Smallholding to be self sufficient and to live a life that is congruent with our values. Neither of us feel we have ever enjoyed living in the modern world and want to take our lives back as much as is realistic to Victorian living.
At the moment my partner lives and works about an hours drive away from me and what with going to see him, working on the farm and resistance from my parents I have been unable to do this.
Also, no point in me milking anything as I'm the only one who will drink it apart from my partner and he doesn't live with me. Parents won't milk anything for me on the nights that I'm at his,( which is fair enough), and when I did have a milk cow they grumbled that it was easier to just go down the shop and still went and bought shop milk/butter/cheese anyway! I gave up and just put her calf back on her
I have my Angora goats though
And a couple of dairy nannies for my goats milk soap business so I definitely can't complain. I'm blessed!
One day we will do all of these thing, just not quite yet