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Monday, December 12, 2011

Ron's Victoria

I recently picked up a Boer Buck (Boers are meat goats) from a Farmer Friend to breed to my only meat goat - a 2 year old Spanish/Boer Cross Doe.  Actually, she's not mine....she belongs to my brother.  Ron stayed with me for a few months a couple years ago, and like me, fell in love with the goats.  He wasn't too crazy about the Dairy Goats because it is a lot of work having to milk twice a day, so he decided to purchase a young doe kid.  He promptly named her Victoria.  Victoria was a beautiful little gray goat.  And Victoria knew she was the cream of the crop!  Victoria never had to stay in the pen with the rest of the goats.  She was given free range of the entire farm and wherever Ron went Victoria was always right beside or behind him.  Eventually, like magic, even if she was put in the pen with the other goats, she would mysteriously show up in or around the house.  While she was young, we purchased a little dress for her which she proudly wore when the school age kids visited the farm for a farm tour.  She even rode around in the front seat of the truck cab with Ron.  You talk about spoiled!  Well unfortunately for me and Victoria....Ron got a job offer he couldn't refuse and moved to Arkansas.  Two years later, I still have Victoria, and somehow she still knows that she runs the show.  Even though our 8 yr old Alpine Dairy Goat -Jenny - is the herd mother, and the entire herd knows it, Victoria doesn't care because she is just waiting for her chance to take over.  And ya know, I really think she will. 

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