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 goat keeper grows old.
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- Approaching seven years old (Augustus was born in November, 2014.) Augustus is big and getting heavy. He has mellowed out. He does come running over when called for a treat like an apple core.
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- At three years old, Valerie is the youngest doe in the herd. She is easy to handle, friendly and a good milker. She is a more casual mother than other does.
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- My Agate is now four years old. She is happy with her buck kid for now. She still stops to be petted and scratched when going out for the day. If I go out with the herd for a ways, she calls me to follow when I turn back.
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- Pamela is now four years old. She is getting tired of her buck kid as he is nearing three months old. She remains aloof and stubborn.
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- Natasha is now four years old. She loves attention and often comes over to be petted. Her favorite scratch spot is behind her ears.
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- Rose is now six years old. Spring has left her coat rough as the new one grows in. She is still a good milker and loves green onion treats on her grain.
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- At six years old Lydia looks so much like her mother Juliette I often have to check her head to be sure which is which. Lydia has a thin line.
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- Spring is now seven years old. She is nervous, high strung and a big doe. She is a good milker and will kid in late fall.
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- Eight years ago Juliette was a small kid living in the house. Now she is a big, bossy doe.
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- Drucilla is now eight years old. She is still shy and very active.
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- At ten years old, Violet should be retiring this year. She is a heavy bodied doe, calm and easy going.
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- Now ten years old Matilda is retired. In the spring she sheds her winter undercoat and looks like a shaggy mess. By summer she will be sleek.
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- Flame is now ten and being retired from the milk line. She doesn’t mind as she only wants in for grain over the winter. Summer pasture is plenty in her opinion.
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- Trina is eleven years old and supposed to be retired. Instead she has adopted on of Valerie’s kids and is very proud of her adopted buck kid.
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- At eleven years old Sophia is retired. She is having trouble adjusting to not being herd boss as younger does have replaced her.
Your goats are sooo beautifull.