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

> If you leave the babies on them, you'll have to lock the does up
> overnight and milk in the morning (or lock the babies up all day, and
> milk at night) to get decent production. In fact, you should also milk
> just after the kids are removed for the day to maximize production.

Thanks for that info, Marie. Some variation of this is what I'll
probably be doing. Milking once a day should be fine for me.

> My experience is, however, that you need to look at production records
> and breed to great bucks to have a good milk supply. You can pick up
> good goats cheap, but you have to be ready to eat the ones that
> aren't.

I like having good bloodlines in my animals. Once I see if one or both
of these sisters turn out to be decent milkers, my goal is to obtain a
good buck this spring and breed to him.

Rob - Va