In the beginning I bought a couple of goats for brush and weed control. They were just some crossbred basic goats. I bred them to a Boer Billy that fall and in February the babies started arriving. Then I started thinking! (That is the dangerous part.) One of these Nannies had a decent udder so I decided to break her to milk.
We don't use alot of milk and a gallon from the store usually went bad before we would use it up, so I decided this was a great plan. I could milk whenever we needed milk for the house and the babies could keep her milked the rest of the time.
This was a good plan. ( I am sure that it was.)
As time went along I started making yogurt and cheese and soap and drinking more milk and I realized that I wasn't getting enough milk to keep up. That was easy enough to remedy, I bought another milk goat.
About this time my parents started getting milk from us so once again we were running short of milk, so I bought 3 more Nubians, then I bought another Nubian.
By now my wife had decided that I had gone completely over the edge. She wasn't sure that we needed the original goats, now we had more.
Over a period of time she came around to my way of thinking and decided that she liked the goats (most of them).
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