Hi! Please please please do a playlist for all your goat stuff. I'm trying to do as much research as I can before I get dairy goats. Need to learn from those who do it best. It would also be amazing if you had a video about feeding and caring with supplements and such or a video about daily care. Thank you kindly for your time ❤️
Great,video so,beautiful and very sweet I love all your beautiful ,very pretty goats and beautiful babies please send me more on your beautiful goats thank,you 🐅🐅🐅🐆🐆🐆😎🙄😁🤩😋😘
Good video. Would love to see more videos on goat care, etc. we have Lamanchas right now, but considering a move to Nubians. Any insight on why a specific breed is better than another would be helpful. Our decision is not based on butter fat content alone.
Good ideas, Double A Ranch Allen. Breed choice is really just personal choice. We prefer Nigerians because of the sweet flavor of their milk, their small size which we find easier to keep in fenced in areas, and their gentle sweet demeanor. My good friend prefers larger breeds because they have longer teats and produce more milk per day. For me, larger breeds are stronger and harder for me to handle. It's just up to each person to determine which is best for them. Thanks for watching!
Thank you for sharing your goat info. Very useful as we will be homesteading in Missouri by next Spring. Where did you find the ad for your doe? Blessings.
The ad we responded to was on Craigslist. If you would like the information of the breeder we bought our herd dam from, please direct message us through RU-vid or Facebook. Also, we will be expecting babies this spring! Keep us in mind. 😊
In general, our goats eat about 1 bale of hay each per month when they are not in milk or pregnant. We give them brome hay and organic local orchard grass.
Living Traditions Homestead Haha yeah, I guess I had that coming to me. I seriously wonder how they do with other species and what would benefit both the goat and homestead., assuming we only want one male. I'm starting to look for my first homestead property (out of state) this month. I realize I'm putting the cart before the horse, just being curious. Thanks and love the channel.
With the title, "The Best Dairy Goats for Homesteading," I thought you might be addressing different breed comparisons, techniques for working with them, milking or milk comparisions, something I might find useful about arriving at the conclusion that something about goats had been compared and evaluated. But, it really just seemed that you are introducing your goats and how you got your numbers. I'm glad you are happy with them, but I didn't feel there was anything here of benefit to me. You might consider changing the name to something that fits your presentation better.
Just a heads up, I see you have a pallet there. 6 yrs ago my favorite alpine girl was playing on the play build we made out of pallets, she ran off when I came home to run to say hi to me, both front legs got broken. Worse day off life. Had to put her down. Since then I have sworn off pallets anywhere near goats. Just experience.
Kevin, You and Sarah make such a wonderful team. I can see why you thrive so well homesteading. Yin and Yang. Also both of you are extremely brilliant and full of ingenuity. It seems that your ingenuity has rubbed off on the baby goat. That was brilliant finding the hole in the wall. I loved it and I love your videos. Thanks.
Sarah, If I had met you guys 20 years ago, my life would have been totally different from what it is. I'm 55 now so I basically live my life vicariously through You guys and others that I have recently met on RU-vid. You two are wonderful people and you help others in so many ways. I am sure they don't even realize all the work you put into making the video's that help enrich their lives. You gotta admit though, there are many that truly appreciate you even though they use small sentences when showing it. Just keep that in mind because there is a lot of love and camaraderie in your chat rooms. It's my pleasure always when giving you a thumbs up. I love your whole family and what you do to help others.
If you will try keyhole Frier's you will not loose as much hay. The goats sure look good. Disbudding is the ONLY way to go. I will have to look into a solar energizer for C electric panels and fence. Great video. Thanks for sharing.
Good day Sarah and thank you for posting this video. Very timely and informative. Plsssss can you make a video to educate us on how to systematically breed Nigerian Dwarf goat (10 does) in order to avoid running out of milk plsssss. How many weeks or months do you wait after breeding one batch before breeding another another batch???? Plsssss Sarah kind help by responding to this question. Also can you plsssss put all your videos on Nigeria Dwarf goats together in series just like you've done for Rabbit. Thank you so much from England.
My Grandpa kept goats as far as I know all his life. He milked between the back legs...not sure why and when my daddy was a kid they had a goat that pulled them around in a cart. He said they used carrots to keep the goat pulling. That's one of those good stories one tells his children. Dont know what kind they were but they seemed big to me...I was about 3 or 4. Of course I followed Grandpa every where he'd let me, but he'd never let me go into the goat house. Probably a wise decision. Good memories long time ago in the early 50's.
Hey Sarah do yawl have a video explaining when to milk when they are feeding their kids at what age are the kids when you start milking.... do you dry up their milk before they kid again? If so how do you do that?
Any animal that lives on your homestead is so lucky. They get good care and you can tell you love them all. Can't wait to see more babies. Baby goats are so much fun.
That is a brilliant idea. Putting a whether with a Billy. Question though if you obviously don't want a wether for anything but company for your Billy does it matter what breed it is so much as long as the personality fits with your Billy. You could even get a mixed breed whether.
Sarah we are looking to get nigerian dwarf/pigmy goats. But we are totally newbies. Could you do a video to better explain all the terminologies that you use when talking about the goats. Seems as though those that talk a about their goats don't really explain things. Just a suggestion. Love your videos
Sarah i have a question on bunnies today my doe gave birth to 4 but they all were dead she had them on the wire outside the nest box.Do you have any idea as to why trying to raise to sell.
thank you loved your goats they look lovely. i will be very happy to watch anything you film about them. sorry if this looks wonkey i am doing this in the dark holding a newly hatched chick that needs a bit of love. see you tomorrow. sue xxx
Can you direct me to where I might find a solar energizer shown in the video? This seems to be a good option if we want to rotate every few days/weeks where our goats graze rather than having permanent fencing.
Sarah.....Do you prefer Nigerian milk over 'other' breeds? I've 'heard' it is 'mild'. I like the idea of the 'mini' breeds of just about every animal. I'd prefer to have my own milk rather than barter or get a mini Hereford, but I haven't been able to develop a taste for the goats' milk and cheese I get locally. (mostly Nubian). Thanks.
+singleman Yes, I absolutely do. Nigerian dwarf milk is very sweet like cows milk. When we switched over our daughters, we didn't tell them. After one week of drinking it without noticing a difference, we finally told them. They admitted that they were surprised at how good it was and that they couldn't taste a difference.
Excellent news. Thank you so much. I can get 3 or 4 bred Nigerian does AND the billy for the same price of the mini Hereford. Thanks again for the fast reply. God Bless.
I love goats. Great weed cutters. We were thinking about getting one for milk, but what do you do with goat milk other than cheese? I guess there's no other use for them right? Like we looked into some of the smaller cows, but even those make way more milk than we could use. So I guess you sell it or something?
Donald Flowers depends on what you're looking for just a run of the mill goat with no papers $75-150 good genetics and papers $200-300 great genetics, health testing, and papers $300-500. *Also note some people charge more for disbudding
