You may be wondering what a Nigerian Dwarf goat is, what does it look like? Well, Nigerian Dwarfs are a small breed of goat, a dwarf, that is sometimes used as a meat goat, but predominately used as a milk goat. They are gentle and curious and can have brown or blue eyes and many different colors. Our goats are all disbudded, meaning we removed the horns. The horns really present a danger when living in a fenced pasture because they stick their heads through the fencing to reach food, and if they had horns they would get stuck.
As you see, goats enjoy standing on things, and being as high off the ground as possible. This picture is of some of our girls. Right now we have six girls and five boys, but only one of the boys is a buck, the others are called wethers. This middle picture is of the boys.
Last summer we had six babies born on the farm and we milked two goats. First we milked by hand, then we bought a hand milker, called a Maggiedan, which worked great and we got about 2-3 pints of milk a day. Let me tell you, fresh goat milk is the best!
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