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["Robert Walton" <waltonrp AT gmail.com>]

Hey all,

I've been busy homesteading and just lurking here mostly. I got 6 Boer
does and a Buck and then added a couple of Nubian-Alpine cross
doelings in to be bred by the Boer buck. Next spring, I'll try my hand
at goat milking. Hopefully, I'll like goat meat or find someone who
will pay for it!

The goats are great brush eaters and my plan is for them to contribute
to the fertility of the place, provide some meat and milk and keep
brush down. Maybe they will be the path to getting pasture ready to
support some beef cattle.

I am going to have to start feeding hay soon. I'd like to get some
grass hay and some soybean hay. I've heard that the legumes are good
for them and figure that they soybean hay should have some more
protein in it.

They sure liked eating some frost killed bean vines I gave them last
week. ANy of you that keep goats have any thoughts on Soybean hay for
goats?

Hay is mostly sold in round bales here, so I have to make a commitment
when I buy and would like to bring in 4 bales, 2 grass and 2 soybean.

I'll take any other goat advise you have also, cause I'm just getting
started with goats. I love these animals!

Rob - Va