When I first started raising registered Nigerian Dwarf goats, I decided I wanted to show them, milk test them, make cheese, make soap, the whole thing. I wanted great goats so I purchased goats from several of the top breeders at the time, as far away as California for one particular beautiful doeling and North Carolina for another. I took cheese making classes and loved making cheese and trying new recipes. I made some soaps and loved that too. The soap was so good for my skin, a combination of my lard and my goat milk, it was wonderful! It was all wonderful, until it wasn't. It got to where I didn't want to milk the goats. It was not hard, I had a nice milking machine, first a hand pump then an electric pump, but I never did get into the swing of milking once in the morning and letting the kids nurse all day, separating them at night. I started feeling like it was just too much work for so little reward from my little Nigerian doe goats. I decided to sell several of my registered Nigerian bucks and purchase a registered Mini Nubian Nigerian buck and bred him with all my Nigerian does. They made beautiful babies and after two years, I had some wonderful milk lines and several does that produced a lot more milk. I loved the milk, it was I thought creamer, and a lot more of it. But even with the great milk and fewer goats, I was finding less and less time for milking. So, Id leave the kids on the does longer and not milk every day or sometimes every 2 days, I know the shame of it all... I eventually quit milking all together. This year I sold all but one beautiful Mini Nigerian Nubian buck and two does, one a pure Nigerian and one a mini Nubian who recently had kids, so I also have three kids, two that are extremely noisy. I plan to keep one gorgeous female kid who is wide in the withers and so very quiet. The other two are going to a wonderful home that do not mind loud kids...
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