How I got started in goats
I started with one goat in fall of 1996 and have had them ever since. My first goat was a Pygora named Carmelita that I got from friends because they were moving into town.
Carmie wasn't like other goats in that she liked being by her self. In the winter of '96 I sent Carmie to a friends house to try to get her bred but she was too fat. She did get bred after she came home and lost some weight. I put her in with Dakota the buck thinking at that point she wasn't going to get bred. She kidded on Dec. 27, 1997 with twins, that we ended up calling the vet to come help deliver.
I bought my first Nigerian in Jan. '97, a bred doe named Joyspring February Jasmine and because Carmie was out to be bred I ended up getting two other does so Jasmine wouldn't be lonely: Joyspring Frances and Joyspring O's Bella. In the spring of '97 Jasmine kidded with twin bucks that I wethered and I also got a buck Joyspring Dakota Hoedown.
Here is the story behind the different breeds that I had. I had one doe that went back to my first doe Carmeitla the Pygora. After they started to do market goats in my county I decided to dabble in the big goats for a season so then I had either a Nubian or a boer cross doe. I also had a Dwarf Nubian "Bessie" (Nubian x Nigerian) from one of my favorite Nigerian does. No I did not plan her breeding. She bred with the Nubian buck I had over to bred with my Nubian doe. I didn't know she was bred until after she kidded. I took one look at the twin doe kids and said, "their ears look funny, they don't look like Nigerian ears."
Carmie wasn't like other goats in that she liked being by her self. In the winter of '96 I sent Carmie to a friends house to try to get her bred but she was too fat. She did get bred after she came home and lost some weight. I put her in with Dakota the buck thinking at that point she wasn't going to get bred. She kidded on Dec. 27, 1997 with twins, that we ended up calling the vet to come help deliver.
I bought my first Nigerian in Jan. '97, a bred doe named Joyspring February Jasmine and because Carmie was out to be bred I ended up getting two other does so Jasmine wouldn't be lonely: Joyspring Frances and Joyspring O's Bella. In the spring of '97 Jasmine kidded with twin bucks that I wethered and I also got a buck Joyspring Dakota Hoedown.
Here is the story behind the different breeds that I had. I had one doe that went back to my first doe Carmeitla the Pygora. After they started to do market goats in my county I decided to dabble in the big goats for a season so then I had either a Nubian or a boer cross doe. I also had a Dwarf Nubian "Bessie" (Nubian x Nigerian) from one of my favorite Nigerian does. No I did not plan her breeding. She bred with the Nubian buck I had over to bred with my Nubian doe. I didn't know she was bred until after she kidded. I took one look at the twin doe kids and said, "their ears look funny, they don't look like Nigerian ears."