My huband, being the avid research Mongol that he is, began looking into breeds. We weren't sure about meat goats, he wouldn't consider dairy goats because he won't eat goat cheese/milk/yogurt, and we didn't want a sub-standard animal that we would be trying to sell again in a year when it ate down the pasture. Enter the angora!
I've always been interested in hand crafts and when Huband pitched the idea of fiber goats to me, I was all ears. I've been watching shows like, "Alaska the last frontier" and "Doomsday Preppers" with a personal desire to get back to basics myself. So we began searching for angora goats in NC.
We found a whole family of people when we met Marcia. Marcia is an avid angora goat herd and offered to show us around her farm and let us try and decide on a goat or two to take home. What a difficult decision it was!
We finally decided on three special girls. Raven, Wrenn and Charlotte. These three were kept separate from the herd in their own little area. Raven and Wrenn are twins, but Raven had a selenium deficiency in the womb and has never gotten big the way Wrenn has. She requires special attention to see to it that she gets what she needs. Charlotte is their half sister and her twin brother, Wilbur, passed away at a young age, so she was place with the other two to avoid bullying from the rest of the flock. Marcia agreed to let us have these three under the condition that we would not breed Raven. She is just too small and Marcia's goats are bred for twins. We quickly agreed and now they are ours!
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