Itty Bitty Hooves

Promised Pictures of My New Doe

April 5, 2007 on 4:47 pm | In goats, dairy, farm, does |

Okay, I finally got out there to sit with the girls and get some pictures of my new doe from Carisa and Andrea (thanks ladies, we love her already).

Here she is–purebred LaMancha Blue Glow Farm Savanna

Savvy and her partner in crime, Polly looking innocent as they come out of the barn

Polly helping me fill water buckets

Going back in to see what more havoc they can create

The inside of my barn and my ‘out of retirement’ milkstand

It sure is nice to be milking again. I bought the Udderlyez milker thing because my hands are what made me leave dairy goats years ago, and I still can’t quite afford one of the real milkers–it took a few times to really make it work for me, most of the first few milkings ended up being by hand, but this morning I actually got it all working well for me and I’m quite pleased with it for now. I still need to get a real milking machine…. if I could just stop buying goats I might be able to afford one. LOL

I SWORE up and down in the past that I’d NEVER have a LaMancha no matter how sweet, or how well they milked. I guess I should have learned my lesson that saying ‘never’ means almost certainly will. LOL I call her my ‘earless wonder’ and she thinks it is a term of endearment. LOL (it is–now). She’s absolutely sweet and while I do not plan on a herd of them, I already love her enough that she’ll never be replaced.