Welcome, and thank you all for visiting my
web site. I live in Tenn and have had the pleasure of raising
goats
(AKA) (My Kids) for almost 8 years now. My how time fly's when your
having fun. Within my web page I hope to introduce you to
my family members. Im a single mother of 16 kids, that's right
16. Most of which I raised from babies. When I first got goats
I knew nothing about them, but I was raised on a cattle farm and had been
around animals all my life. I purchased 5 does in 1994 from a man that
ran a sale barn not to far from my home. (I now know that wasnt a good
idea, but it all worked out ok.) The day I went to look at his herd
of goats and pick 5 out I was shocked at what i seen. He had over 100 head
of goats, every breed, every color, young, old you name it, he had it. Well
I was at a lose as to what to pick. I did know I wanted
5 young does. As I made my way through his herd examining the
ones that didn't run clear out of sight, I noticed 4 shy and what appeared
to be young nanny's standing over in a huddle away from the rest of
the herd. I couldn't quite figure out what was so different about
the 4, then it dawned on my, they had no ears, I ask the man the same question
I have been ask for the last 8 years. What happened to their
ears? The man gave a chuckle and informed me that they were called
LaMancha's, they are an earless breed of goat. Well I thought man
your trying to feed me some bull aren't you LOL. Will i had never heard
of such. Earless Goats Yeah Right. I continued my search through
the herd of goats and I was getting more and more confused as I walked. As
I walked my eyes just seemed to go back to the earless goats. After
about 2 hours of viewing every goat in the herd I made my choose. And
you guessed it, I was about to be the proud mother of 4 earless, skinny,
wildest, shameless looking critters I had every seen. I had saved enough
money to buy 5 goats so after chasing the 4 for another hour inorder
to catch them, I needed to pick 1 more. Well by this time i was sick of goats
and I smelled, well you all know what I smelled like, dontcha,hee,hee..
I seen a very small long eared baby goat just wondering though the herd
as if it was looking for its mother. I ask the man about it and he said he
thought he had sold the mother a couple of days before, I thought oh its so
small it needs its mom. And by luck when I chanced it down and
caught it it to was a doe... She was a Nubian so the man said. To me
she was just a goat. She was probably about 2 months old at the time.. So
after everyone is loaded up and money exchanged for what I had just purchased.
I was heading home. As i drove home I thought of what im getting
into here. At home I had prepared a goat lot with
a very secure fence and a nice cozy barn, I had already purchase everything
that was needed. When I arrived with my herd I just left them
in the back of the truck to get use to the sounds around them before
I let them out. They stayed in the back of the truck for about 2 hours
and they watched me and I talked to them the whole time I was out putting
finishing touches on they new home. I filled their water buckets
and put feed out for them before I opened the truck tail gate to let them
out. They shot out like a rocket,hee,hee. They were so wild I couldn't
believe it, I thought I will never get my hands on them again. But would
you believe within 2 days they all were eating out of my hand . :)
The end of my beginning.
To be continued.