2. Goats, pink eggs, and the name (River Rock Ranch)

I love being able to ask these question.

 

1.  When Matthew heard that you were getting goats he was so excited because if we do get a chance to visit this summer he said you will now have milk from the goats.  I told him that I don't think that you just get milk from whatever goat you want.  So, do all goats give milk or does this have to do with goats that had babies before?  How does that work? Goats have to be bred to milk. They only go into heat in the fall, which I think is pretty cool, so they're babies are born when there is plenty of great grass. Then they milk for about a year, sometimes less. The babies can nurse and then you can have the milk after they've been weaned, but I like to just milk the doe and bottle feed the babies. Usually there's plenty to share. Laverne gave about a gallon a day during the peak of her lactation curve, so definitely enough.

 

2. (Laurens question)  Wow, what chickens lay pink eggs? I've never seen any pink eggs because they're really rare, but Ameraucanas can lay them.* Our Ameraucanas only lay different shades of green and blueish green though.

 

3. (Matthew question)  Why is the ranch called River Rock Ranch? Well, if you've seen our Ranch there are so many rocks it's not even funny. It's really pretty, but makes putting fence posts in really hard. We didn't name it that though. When we moved in that's what it was called, there's a big sign above the driveway.

*There's a picture of an Ameraucana on "Barnyard pics".

This is so fun,  love you

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I agree!
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