[Jacob-list] Advice Please - Jacobs and Goats

[Steve and Trish Barrows]

For what it is worth, we have a small flock of Jacobs--about a dozen.  We won't sell a single animal unless we know for a fact it is to be butchered (we take it ourselves).  We recently acquired alpacas for the fiber, and thinking about the companionship of like-kind with one another, got two of them.  I agree with Chris; you might think of a second goat right along.  A caveat:  goats have been known to teach sheep that they can get out of a fenced pasture when they were perfectly content before the goats came into the paddock.  Enjoy your new animals!  Steve, Amazing Grace Farm
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  From: im rapunzil 
  To: Jacob List 
  Sent: Sunday, August 15, 2010 6:40 AM
  Subject: [Jacob-list] Advice Please - Jacobs and Goats


  I have 2 Jacobs - ram & ewe, about 4 months old pastured together at the moment.  Earlier this week I brought home a 2 month old Pygmy doe kid.  When I first saw her she was about a week old, so when I went back to pick her up this week was very surprised at how tiny she still is.  I'd say she is half the size of my young Jacobs, maybe even less than half!
   
  As of now she is safe in a nicely bedded stall, but I think she's lonely since being taken directly from her flock.  I'd really like to pasture her out with the Jacobs as soon as possible.  However, my lamb ram already has a lovely 4 horn set........ I'm just afraid of a chance they won't accept the doe.  Can anyone advise me of precautions I should take?  Thank you for the advice!
   
  Cindy

  You live by writing your poems on a farm
  and call that farming.


   













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