February 16th, 2010

Ms. Eliza Doolittle

Eliza is one of the two Nigerian Dwarf Goats at Piscataway Acres.  She was purchased from Hearts-N-Hooves dairy goat farm on the Eastern Shore of Maryland when she was just over a month old.  She is a character and a handful.  Her favorite activities include jumping over fences, breaking into feed containers, knocking over feed [...]

A hobby farmer tells her tale of breeding Nigerian dwarf goats at CK farm happenings.
Our Nigerian does, Brie and Eliza, have also been in heat, but I consider it an adolescent heat.  They’re still under a year in age and are too small to have babies safely.
One lesson you learn more profoundly raising animals or [...]

There is a common belief in western culture that sheep are good and goats are bad.  Many religious sermons discuss separating the sheep from the goats (and the goats aren’t on the good side) and even in popular culture, goats are portrayed less wholesome than their ovine counterparts.  To be sheepish is to be shy, [...]

and it sounds like she shares our  poultry problem .  But the article is primarily about Suzanne McMinn’s discovery of Nigerian Dwarf Goats and goats in general:
Then one day I received an e-mail from a reader of my blog.  She lived nearby and she had Nigerian Dwarf dairy goats.  Nigerian Dwarfs are miniature milkers that [...]