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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.