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To milk a goat she needs to have had kids. The female kids can be sold on to other people who want milking goats. The billy kids get sold on for meat. It's pretty tough giving up a few days old goat kid for slaughter.

(Two Anglo-Nubians, long dead now).




Correct, we kept the females for milk. Most of the males were sold.




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