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So once you've been smitten with the goat bug, you need to decide what kind, and how
many. So there are numerous varieties of goats, and they come from different places, and they've
been adapted for different purposes. We started out with the Nubians. And the Nubians are
the ones with the big, floppy bunny rabbit ears. And they give the best milk. The highest
quality, highest butterfat milk. So we started out with a Nubian who was with us until recently.
In fact, our original goat mothered these, this one, and they're being bottle fed now.
We bred the Nubian to the Boer, which is a big, robust meat goat. And then we added Alpine,
and Saanen. Alpine and Saanen both being excellent dairy breeds. And what we've created here
is a whole new breed, perhaps. Albosean, or Albopian, we'll have to find an appropriate
name for it. As far as how many goats, that really depends on what your purposes are.
If you're going to raise just a couple of pets, well you'll probably want to limit it
to one or two dams, one or two does, and then each year, you'll get one or two kids from
each one. Your housing capacity, your pasture, your food and just what kind of goals you
have with your goat herd will determine from there how many to get. You absolutely need
two goats though, they are social animals. And you probably wouldn't want to put one
goat in a barnyard, she'd be lonely.