This year was a good year for my plan of trying to create the perfect kid–one descended from my 15 original lines. Most of the girls had twins that were one buck and one doe. That gave me a lot of choice. I need four goats to pair up to give me two kids next year. Those two kids will then make the perfect kid.
Daisy feeding Chrys and Poppy
As I look to this year’s kids, I am making my choices. First up is Onyx. From the moment I saw her, I wanted to keep her. I’m hoping her feet are good, and then she will be here forever.
Onyx
I plan on breeding her to Tiger. He has blood from outside the farm, which is good to help with genetic diversity. He is a combination of Boer and Nubian, which will add some good blood to the original fifteen lines.
Tiger
Next up is Ava’s boy Freddie. He is a really nice big buck. He’s not very friendly, but after I breed with him, he’ll get sold, so I’m not too worried about how friendly he is. And he isn’t horrible. I can pet him when he feels like it.
Fannie and Freddie
Freddie is going to get bred to Hilda. She hasn’t had her baby yet this year, and I wouldn’t be able to use her baby for breeding next year, so I will just breed Hilda to him.
Hilda
As crazy, bratty, wild as she is, I wouldn’t have kept Hilda, but she was nicer than her twin sister, and I didn’t have any other choices for keeping a descendant from Minnie Pearl, who was my herd queen and one of my first milking does.
Minnie and her granddoe Helen, Hilda’s maa
Hilda better have a tame kid with Freddie because she is way too wild, and I’m tired of wild, bratty goats.
Teresa
Eden Hills 