Helmstead Miniature Goats

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Ciao Bella earned her name ("Hello Beautiful" in Italian) the moment, literally, that she slipped out of her mother.  I sat there for a moment, enthrawled, and just said, "wow..."

Ciao was a tiny little baby, easily half the size of her brother, Cort (also retained) and the smallest of the 2018 kids - including the quints Lucy had!  She has grown terrifically, regardless, and is quite the normal size - for her breeding - now that she's a yearling.  She is just gorgeous and I catch myself stopping to watch her eat.  She has a long, dairy neck and flowing body.  She stands on correct feet and legs, well placed under her body and has lovely length and width of rump. 

I'm very much looking forward to seeing what this little doe can do!  She will expect her first freshening in early 2020.

UPDATE - Ciao freshened flawlessly with a large single doe kid in March.  As of this writing, she's milking 1 lb a day over feeding her kid.  Her udder texture is much improved over her dam's texture and orifice size is about the same as her dam (a bit small).  She still milks easily.  Her rear fill and division of the halves is improving daily, teat placement should also continue to move down.  Overall VERY pleased with this doe!!

UPDATE:  Ciao has produced a singleton for every freshening.  She's now a 4th freshener, her udder is equal to her 3rd.  She produces ample milk and has butter soft texture with nice, open orifices making hand milking a breeze.  We pulled her single buck this time so I can milk her through this entire lactation to give other, long lactation does some time off.  Ciao is a willing milker, hovering right around 3.5 lbs a day.  Imagine what she could do if she'd just produce a litter rather than all these singles!

Ciao's Kidding History

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