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09/04/2006: ""

These two are the latest additions to our menagerie.
My buddy Andy talked me into looking at his dads milking goats. I though maybe I'd get a doeling or two to browse on some of the weeds and stuff around the edges of the property. But once Tammy tried the goats milk we bought a milking doe and a doeling. We bought the pair so they wouldn't get lonely.
The wood box behind the goats serves as the milking stand. The big goat knows what it's for and every day at 7 and 7 she hops up there and we milk her out. Tammy still has to perfect her milking technique but I can get her milked out in short order of course I have a bit more practice at milking.
The milk is pretty close to cows milk. But we feed them some nice hay and grain to go with the weeds they browse. We only get a half gallon a day but it's a nice little filler while we wait for the heifers to get big enough to breed.