Goats in Profile - Amelia

Meet Miss Amelia, number one maiden doe, here at Three Springs. Amelia is the daughter of top goat Martha. Unfortunately, she has not come into season so she has had to sit back and watch the rest of her tribe breed and deliver healthy buck goats aplenty. Amelia is part Toggenburg (Martha) and part Anglo Nubian (Galex – buck). She has the colouring of a British Alpine and the bleat of a mac truck! She is, by far, the most affectionate and playful of my goats. I am crossing my fingers that since she now is running with Pete she will come into season in the autumn.
 

Amelia is also known as Miss Amelia Jane, Ameliorate and Mealia. She will usually turn up when the feed is being mixed and she is particularly fond of chopped up apples – only if Martha has given them the thumbs up!

Goats in Profile - Pete

Here is sweet Pete. Pete, a Boer buck, is the son of Pete. Boer goats are usually bred for meat, but this little Pete is our new buck so he will be sticking around. He is only about a year old and the does hate him. That is probably only a temporary state of affairs, come autumn they will probably find him more ‘interesting’.

Pete came from Yarragon Goats, a beautiful small Boer goat farm in Yarragon South, which is very close to us.

Pete likes lying in the full sun, pushing the does out of the way to steal their concentrates and is quite partial to blackberries. He likes afternoon bush walks and playing follow the leader (Martha) back home. He does not like being left behind by the girls and I think he was a bit of a mama’s boy until quite recently.

He is not so much into pats and other sorts of human attention but that might change too. I do think he likes being called Pete.