Alpine Does

2022- Mossy didn’t get bred via AI and instead had a very late Boer cross set of twins. Unfortunately, her boy didn’t make it and she gives way too much milk for just her doeling. I milk her twice a day and feed the dogs and cats because she is out on green grass (and I have 7 very hungry kittens). I am happy with Mossy, we unfortunately lost her sister, Mercy, to an aborted pregnancy and she didn’t make the c-section (she didn’t dilate at all for a natural birth).  I would like at least 1 more purebred alpine in my herd should milk prices exceed my budget. Mossy is easy to hand milk and leads beautifully. She has beautiful attachments, but at the moment she is producing for me and she fits the parameters for what I want in my alpine.

2021 – I call this girl Mossy for short. She is one of my twin AI girls out of my best alpine milking doe. The dam was a slow growing goat and took many years to look pretty but she had the most amazing udder that I ever have had in my herd and with a high milk test weight of 13.3lbs in a 24 hour period.

This girl is definitely growing prettier and bigger than her dam, but with a more modest milk production for her first year. Out of my twins she is my favorite to milk as she has more patience and has simply a better teat set up for hand milking .

I am hoping for better pictures next year. I really wanted to get some pictures, but this girl has 6-8 hours of milk in her udder.