self-sufficiency- I can do it Myself! (ICDIM)

Thinking of growing and preserving your own food?

Goatsies for sale- We have acquired a grandson of the world champion Alpine dairy buck from Redwood Hills Dairy in California. He is a lovely black and white young buck, but has shown us he is not shooting blanks. He fathered triplets on Cocoa Puff, a young light chocolate colored small doe who is half Boer goat (meat goat), 1/4 angora goat (wool or fiber producing goat) and 1/4 African pygmy goat (miniature goat). (Angoras are very small, also.) Two girls and a boy. WE have one boy and one girl (buckling and doeling) for sale at $50 each. They and white and chocolate (like mommy) with "airplane ears". Airplane ears happen when you cross a pointy eared goat like an Alpine with a floppy-eared goat like a Nubian or Boer goat. The boy is Buster Brown and the girl is Cocoa Princess. They should mature as small to medium size goats, produce babies that are good for meat and does that should milk pretty decently. They would be good for a small homestead or suburban homestead. One way to get good milking goats without spending an arm and a leg is to buy a baby dairy buck and cross him on other kinds of goats. If you keep breeding the females back to your dairy buck, in three generations of babies (three years or less) you should have does that are 7/8 pure dairy goat. In four generations you will have does that are 15/16 pure dairy goat! This is how you can reach toward self-sufficiency in food without having a lot of money. YOu can easily make yogurt, kefir, cottage cheese and "farmers cheese" from fresh goats' milk. In this way you can provide high protein, high calcium easy-to-digest food for your family.

If you live in Texas and would like to get Buster Brown or Cocoa Princess, please e-mail us at newamish@gmail.com. It is not a good idea to get them both as they are brother and sister.

Blessings,

Sister Katy