Hello! My name is Amber and I am very excited and (im)patiently awaiting the new year so I can get my goats! I'm new to goats, but have raised sheep, chickens and horses. I've always just had them as pets though so this is my first attempt at 'farming' them for a purpose. My family has a small hobby farm in southern california. I wanted something that I could milk. As a knitter, I have a strong affinity for wooly sheep, but we live in the desert so I didn't want to go that route so goats it is! Looking forward to starting my own herd!
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I should google them just the heck of it - I really dont know what they look like. However, I do know hoof trimming is enough of a challenge, I know I dont want to shear, card, spin fiber or whatever all that entails. I was enthalled by Navajo weaving last year and still am. However, the weaving process is much more difficult than building the loom. Unfortunately............. I will finish that project!!!!!!!
Amber Taylor said:
Melissa Johnson said:
Amber, I too, had to be patient in the preparation stage. I couldnt stand it any longer and in May of 09 got 2 does. For a short time our 3 chickens got less space and the goat kids took over! Until I got a shed for them built, I used a baby gate in the door of the chicken coop and fortunately for me, the kids never realized they could have jumped over the gate at any time. lol. My son built a 8 x 8 wonderful warm shed for them. This summer I finally cleaned out a room in the back of my barn and once again the barn actually has "animals" in it. Much better but there is still grass in the fenced area - so in the wet mornings the other pen is actually better. I have struggled with hay feeders. I dont want so much hay waste. So rather than spend $42.00 at Hoegger's for a bucket wall hanging type feeder, I went to Wal-Mart and bought a plastic trash bucket - cut 2 holes in the front and using a big hinge - added bungy cords to hang it from the hinge. Still not satisfied ^^ - so now I have created a hay feeder with pvc pipe angled in a plywood box type wall feeder. sigh......... didnt make it wide enough - doesnt hold enough hay.
But for kids it would work great - except they will probably climb in it and poop. Goats, glad I dont have anything else to do - lol, well anything else I WANT to do.
I have a friend of Facebook that is a Weaver/Historical Weaver in PA. She asked me why I wasnt raising Pygora goats - LOL.
Oh Yes, I saw somw pygoras in a herd with nigerians and was tempted to buy them all!! but that would take a lot more planning (the drool did come though at the site of those pretty nannies)
Amber, I too, had to be patient in the preparation stage. I couldnt stand it any longer and in May of 09 got 2 does. For a short time our 3 chickens got less space and the goat kids took over! Until I got a shed for them built, I used a baby gate in the door of the chicken coop and fortunately for me, the kids never realized they could have jumped over the gate at any time. lol. My son built a 8 x 8 wonderful warm shed for them. This summer I finally cleaned out a room in the back of my barn and once again the barn actually has "animals" in it. Much better but there is still grass in the fenced area - so in the wet mornings the other pen is actually better. I have struggled with hay feeders. I dont want so much hay waste. So rather than spend $42.00 at Hoegger's for a bucket wall hanging type feeder, I went to Wal-Mart and bought a plastic trash bucket - cut 2 holes in the front and using a big hinge - added bungy cords to hang it from the hinge. Still not satisfied ^^ - so now I have created a hay feeder with pvc pipe angled in a plywood box type wall feeder. sigh......... didnt make it wide enough - doesnt hold enough hay.
But for kids it would work great - except they will probably climb in it and poop. Goats, glad I dont have anything else to do - lol, well anything else I WANT to do.
I have a friend of Facebook that is a Weaver/Historical Weaver in PA. She asked me why I wasnt raising Pygora goats - LOL.
Oh Yes, I saw somw pygoras in a herd with nigerians and was tempted to buy them all!! but that would take a lot more planning (the drool did come though at the site of those pretty nannies)
Amber, I too, had to be patient in the preparation stage. I couldnt stand it any longer and in May of 09 got 2 does. For a short time our 3 chickens got less space and the goat kids took over! Until I got a shed for them built, I used a baby gate in the door of the chicken coop and fortunately for me, the kids never realized they could have jumped over the gate at any time. lol. My son built a 8 x 8 wonderful warm shed for them. This summer I finally cleaned out a room in the back of my barn and once again the barn actually has "animals" in it. Much better but there is still grass in the fenced area - so in the wet mornings the other pen is actually better. I have struggled with hay feeders. I dont want so much hay waste. So rather than spend $42.00 at Hoegger's for a bucket wall hanging type feeder, I went to Wal-Mart and bought a plastic trash bucket - cut 2 holes in the front and using a big hinge - added bungy cords to hang it from the hinge. Still not satisfied ^^ - so now I have created a hay feeder with pvc pipe angled in a plywood box type wall feeder. sigh......... didnt make it wide enough - doesnt hold enough hay.
But for kids it would work great - except they will probably climb in it and poop. Goats, glad I dont have anything else to do - lol, well anything else I WANT to do.
I have a friend of Facebook that is a Weaver/Historical Weaver in PA. She asked me why I wasnt raising Pygora goats - LOL.
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Amber Taylor said:
Melissa Johnson said:
Oh Yes, I saw somw pygoras in a herd with nigerians and was tempted to buy them all!! but that would take a lot more planning (the drool did come though at the site of those pretty nannies)
But for kids it would work great - except they will probably climb in it and poop. Goats, glad I dont have anything else to do - lol, well anything else I WANT to do.
I have a friend of Facebook that is a Weaver/Historical Weaver in PA. She asked me why I wasnt raising Pygora goats - LOL.