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By Choice, by Chance, by Design... they all Make the Grade!

 

By Chance, by Choice, by Design… they all make the Grade!

Tomorrow I turn 30.  This time last year I was crossing my fingers we'd be using the new milking parlor by my birthday.  Well, we were a week late, but it was close.  Here's hoping my birthday wish for this year, starting construction on the creamery, follows the same pattern.  In the interim, how about a little history about the herd.  Its not quite a "How To" for starting a goat dairy, but gives insight into how some of us get here!

the first 15 on pick-up day!
the first 15 feeding at the milk bar
when you can't yet afford a barn go with the vinyl carport
need a barn for a just a couple years? build a garage instead.
the herd starts to grow
milking on a budget... re-used form lumber to build the platform
another year, more goats to fit in the barn, becoming more efficient in space use
moving into the new custom barn, room to spread out
the next phase of temporary milking platforms
spacious accomodations for 2010 babies in the new barn
2011 kidding season hit full swing by mid-March, La Mancha / Nubian cross Illyria at center
2011 babies, getting some love from the dairy pup