I love my goats and have fit my life around them since 1974. These are the last of my does. I keep no new does. As these does die, my High Reaches herd grows smaller. It is one of the things that happens when a goatkeeper grows old.
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- High Reaches Augustus is a big buck yet remains fairly easy to handle. He was born in November, 2014. Over the winter his favorite snacks are buckbrush berries and apple cores.
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- High Reaches Valerie is the youngest doe in the herd, born in 2018. She was the smallest, but has had a growth spurt. She looks a lot like Rose and Natasha without spots. She is friendly and demanding. On pasture days she starts calling as soon as I come out of the house asking me to hurry up.
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- High Reaches Spring’s Agate was born in 2017. She was a bottle baby and stayed one for years mostly because she was spoiled and still is. She is the one who waits for me out in the pastures and visits with me going in and out of the gate. She is a good milker.
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- High Reaches Pamela is Natasha’s twin sister, born in 2017. She is a big, stout doe, headstrong and a good milker.
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- High Reaches Natasha was born in 2017. She is friendly often walking over for a head scratch whenever I am around. She is a good milker.
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- High Reaches Rose was born in 2015. She is a friendly doe and a good milker.
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- High Reaches Lydia was born in 2015. She looks so much like her mother Juliette, that I have to check their stars at times to be sure who is coming into the milk room. Lydia is a good milker and friendly.
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- High Reaches Spring is a big, red doe born in 2014. She is no nonsense and stand offish. She is a good milker and a good mother.
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- High Reaches Juliette was so small and weak when she was born in 2013 that she took four days to stand on her own and spent two weeks in the house. Now she is one of the head goats and a good milker.
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- High Reaches Drucilla may be Augustus’s sister, but she favors the deep red color from her sire’s line. She is a big Nubian doe with a full body and is an excellent milker. She was born in 2013.
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- High Reaches Violet has the old style Nubian body like her mother had. She was born in 2011. She is a good mother and a fair milker.
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- High Reaches Matilda is a big, old doe born in 2011 and now retired. She is friendly and calm.
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- High Reaches Flame is a shy doe. She is a good mother and gives plenty of milk. She was born in 2011.
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- High Reaches Trina is an old doe, very red in color, very friendly. She has been a good milker. She was born in 2010 and is supposed to be retired.
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- High Reaches Sophia is one of the oldest does, born in 2010. She is bossy and has been herd boss for years, but has lost her position as she is now old and retired.