RAW GOAT MILK FOR SALE:
2012 price: $4 per quart, $8 per half-gallon, $16 per gallon. This is still lower than the supermarket price for pasteurized goat milk. Refundable deposit on jars: $1 per each quart. Return clean jars and lids on next milk, just pay for milk. If done getting milk, return jars and lids, get deposits back.
GOATS:
I will have baby goats being born on these dates: Feb. 9/10 and May 6, 2012. You may reserve a baby for the full price deposit of $150. They must be taken within a week of being born. If your chosen goat is not born, such as, you wanted a doeling but there was only a buckling, your deposit is refunded. i reserve the right to keep any baby instead of selling it.
Pre-reserved babies will be bottle fed from the first mouthful. All babies are dehorned at 2 days old unless you request horns along with your payment. All babies not reserved ahead of time are dam raised.
This year, the babies will be un-registered. The sires were not registered, so ADGA won't register the babies, regardless of milking quality and quantity, teat size, which are the two most important qualities if you want milk, and etc.
All my adult goats have a written record of how much milk was given at every milking, going back for years. ALL of these are calm, easy to catch, love to be petted, and jump up on the milk stand happily. All are dehorned. Some are registered, some are not. The saanens give long steady lactations, sometimes of 2 years. There are NO abcesses in my herd.
I give tetanus shots, no others.
My location is St. Louis, Missouri.
MILK GOATS
All babies will be $150 when picked up within a week of being born.
Here is a description of the dams who will be giving birth:
Purebred Lamancha with very small teats passed on by her "oh-so-show winning" sire's side. She is kind hearted and is nursing the babies of other goats this year.
Half Lamancha half Saanen triplets. One is due Feb. 9. Daughter of the saanen at bottom of page. Another is due May 6, 2012. The third will kid June 29, 2012. Babies will be available and deposits taken.
Grown half sister of the saanen doelings, bred to Alpine buck, gave birth to twin doelings Feb. 4, 2012. This is the only goat I have ever heard of who increased her milk supply in the 6th and 7th month of lactation (I have read many thousands of milk test records). Her sire is lamancha/nubian, dam is saanen below. Not registerable. Long teats, fast milk out, perfectly tame, now in her second lactation, long life of production ahead of her. Her first lactation, she gave 5.5# of milk every day since Dec. 1, 2010, and was still producing Dec. 2011, except when she increased to 6-7# daily during July and August. Born May 2009. $1000 if she is bought herself. If you start raising goats you will understand how much work it takes to get them to this point and how much a good one is worth.
Mother of all the part-saanen does. Bred to Alpine buck, due either Feb, April, or May 2012. Starts out with 15# of milk daily, and after many months of lactation, is at about 12# daily. Her last lactation it took 8 months to finally dwindle to 8# daily (a gallon). Her first lactation was 2 years long (smaller quantity then). Complete daily milking records. Birthed the triplet doelings this year, an easy birth too. Beautiful, sleek, tame, affectionate, great tasting milk. Born March 2006. $500 if she is bought herself, because she is older.