Fancy, our first goat, is a fixture in our barn.  She likes to be
brushed and petted and fed peanuts!  Now Fancy lives a quiet life
with our two sheep, Nibble and Cher.

About the Goats

After some serious consideration and a fair amount
of sadness, I have sold my goats - except for Fancy,
of course.  Life and all its fullness just got to be too
much.  Not selling my milking equipment, though,
as things may change in the future and goats may
find their way back into our lives.  And I'll still be
making soap, with good LaMancha milk from
Silver Spur Dairy Goats in Mountainair, NM.  
Keeping it local but trying to simplify!

"What did you do to their ears?" is a question you must learn to answer when
you have LaMancha goats. Their breed trademark is indeed their tiny ears,
but after tasting the high-fat creaminess of their milk, it is easy to overlook this
PR pitfall. Having been brought to the US from Spain during Spanish
colonization, these goats first became registered as a breed in 1958.

Contrary to popular belief, goats do not eat everything; in fact, some of them
can be quite picky! Our girls eat alfalfa and/or grass hay and grain formulated
for goats. They also enjoy lots of attention, brushing now and then, and
peanuts for treats.  

We are not licensed to sell milk or edible milk products, but we enjoy the
milk for our own use and add liberal amounts to our luxurious goat milk soap.
If you do ever have the opportunity to taste fresh and well-cared-for goat's
milk, give it a try. You might see a big difference between your expectations
and the real thing!

The girls are bred in the fall and give birth approximately five months later in
the spring. For approximately eight weeks we bottle feed our babies to insure
their health and sociability.  Toward the end of the eight weeks, we begin to
have enough milk for family use, and then the twice-a-day milking continues
throughout the summer until the girls are bred again in the fall and "dried
off." Milk production amounts can vary greatly from animal to animal and
breed to breed, but our goats usually provide us with 1 ½ to 2 gallons per
day during the mid to late summer peak of the season.
The Goats:
LaMancha and Mini Lamancha