Tuesday, February 15, 2011

Dairy Goats coming to Little Sprouts Farm?

My wife has finally convinced me to explore adding dairy goats to Little Sprouts Farm. While I love the idea of fresh wholesome raw milk that we make ourselves, I have never been particularly fond of the daily milking chores.  Almost everything at Little Sprouts has been set up to NOT be a daily chore through some sort of creative automation, but milking? I just can't imaging any way to avoid that as a daily event.

Nevertheless, the pros seem to outweigh the cons, and tomorrow we are going to a local breeder for the breed we think we prefer to explore. If things go well we could have milking goats on our farm by Thursday morning!

More details will come as we get further down the road, complete with pictures and first impressions.

 Stay tuned!

Here is a link to the breed we are considering:



Here is the link to the breeder we are going to visit:

1 comment:

  1. UnknownFebruary 16, 2011 at 9:38 AM

    Congratulations on your soon to be new addition!! Please let us know how it goes with the milking...we may even come buy some to see the taste difference and see which direction we would like to go.

    We wanted to thank you again very much for allowing us to come to your farm! We thoroughly enjoyed it and your company.

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