Dairy Goat
Dairy Goat
Dairy goat people?
Okay, so I have a long time to think about this, but oh well. I've never owned dairy goats, just pygmies.
Next year for 4-H I want to buy either a Nubian or an Alpine doe. Which one is usually cheaper? They produce milk all year around, right? Other info on them would help. Thanks
Nubian!!!!!! 
Lotsa personality!
No your milk doe won't produce year around. Goes like this...
Doe gets bred. Has kids. Produces milk for her kids. You milk doe. Bottle feed kids with milk replacer. Milk yeild gradually increases. Yeild peaks. Milk yeild gradually decreases. Thru milking you gradually "dry off" the doe. Doe comes into heat. Doe gets bred. Cycle repeats. 8 to 10 months of milk production by doe per year.
A good goat supply catalog (FREE) is Hoeggers Goat Supply. Kind of a good info source also.
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