Picture of ‘Little Bit,’ a young Sonnen (3/4) Boer (1/4) mix. She stayed with us while she was still milking, we returned her to her owners when she was weaned off of the milk. Young goats have a blast climbing on most anything that they can.

For those who think that you have to have a lot of property in order to have farm animals, you would be mistaken. We have little more than acre here, and one third of that is taken up by a million gallon natural pond in the back yard. For those of you who decide to get goats, ask your neighbors who have a yard or nearby property, that is grown up if they would be willing to allow you to let your animals feed on the brush on their property, you might be amazed by those who would be more than happy to have to yard area cleaned up without having to pay for it.

We have two types of dairy goats here:

• Sonnen/Boer Mix

    While the Boer is not a diary goat, we don’t get as much milk out of ours as we would with a full Sonnen goat

• Nigerian Dwarf

    Nigerian Dwarf goats are smaller in size, but their milk contains much more butter fat than most other goats, and allows me to get more butter from her milk than from the others.