After a year's worth of study, our fearless leader (Keith) decided on these goats from our new friends at Lost Valley Farm in Pipe Creek, Texas. Yes, we drove all the way to Texas for these babies!
Crazy? Perhaps. But we wanted to have the best possible start and the sweet ladies at Lost Valley Farm have over 30 years experience and are well known in the milking goat community. (Yes, there is a "milking" goat community! And boy are they serious about what they do.)
The milk is said to taste close to cows milk due to the high quality and amount of cream. These goats have been carefully bred over the years to bring out the best, and healthiest qualities and we hope we can continue this as we learn. We have a whole lot of learning to do.
In the meantime, we're enjoying their cuteness as they are only 8, 9 and 10 weeks old!
So here they are...
This is Via Dolorosa, and we call her "Rosa" for short.
Her parents are Lost Valley's Toby Mac and ARMCH Hill Country's Bridges Burning.
And this is Rosa's brother, Jericho's Wall. We call him "Jericho". He had a wall up but we have broken it down and he's becoming a lover now.
This is our lover-boy, perhaps we should have named him that! But instead, he is named Joseph's Dreams. We call him Little Joey. He wants attention and follows us wherever we go. He would rather be with people than with the other goats. We loves to cuddle and sit on our laps. He is definitely "dreamy"
He has amazing parents - they are Lost Valley's Casting Crowns and ARMCH's Lost Valley "Obie" who is also a sweetheart. He must take after his mommy.
Little Joey being held... by anyone who will hold him!
They are all in quarantine right now as they get used to their new environment and the new food/grasses we have which can (and has) produced some tummy upset. We are working through our learning curve pretty quick!
“But ask the beasts, and they will teach you; the birds of the heavens, and they will tell you; or the bushes of the earth, and they will teach you; and the fish of the sea will declare to you. Who among all these does not know that the hand of the Lord has done this? In his hand is the life of every living thing and the breath of all mankind.
- Job 12:17-10
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