Venture into goat ranching

After some time and basic clean up and repairs our place was livable and we were in our new place full time. It wasn't as "nice" as some people would like by societies standards for sure. We had all tile floors, and not the nice stuff, but the tile that is used in hospitals and cafeterias. The sink in the bathroom didn't work and we had to use the bath tub to wash our hands. The floors were cold, hard and seemed to grow dust bunnies faster than weeds in a garden. But even with all this, we were very happy and felt blessed to have our own land to start our farm. Our pastures were greening, chickens were growing, and now it was time to acquire our goats. We had researched for over a year anticipating getting a farm and now our dreams were about to become reality. To begin we had decided we wanted at least one dairy doe that we could milk for our own consumption and then fill out the herd with meat goats. We traveled to a goat ranch about an hour from our house to look at our first goats. We immediately fell in live with an older Alpine doe named Sweet Pie. She was friendly and of beautiful colors. We bought Sweet Pie and two other does on that day but we could not bring them home with us yet. One of the other does was Deluxe a pretty little spotted Boer Alpine cross, she has become one of our best meat does always throwing meaty fast growing kids. We eagerly anticipated going back to pick up our goats and add them to our Happy Lil Homestead. Sad news came the week we were to pick up our first does. My wife's grandfather passed away after a long battle with cancer. She immediately flew out to attend the funeral with the children. I was unable to attend as I had to work at my "real job". So while the family was away I traveled to get the goats on my own. They arrived and were waiting on the family when they returned. They were a nice welcome home present. I'm proud to say that at the time of this post Sweet Pie is still a productive member of our herd along with three of her daughters and one grand daughter. Deluxe has also remained and continues to bless our farm with fine meat goats.