Ozark Jewels Dairy & Boer Goats

Cocoa(picture taken right after milking)

If I had to pick a favorite doe, out of all my girls, I think I would have to pick Cocoa.  She isn't beautiful, she isn't registered, but she is a good girl.  Cocoa is 1/2 Lamancha-1/2 Alpine.  She is a steady milker, topping 1 to 1-1/2 gallons at her peak.  She is an easy-keeper, easy to milk, great attitude, calm, calm, calm. Has good conformation, nice mammary....I could have a herd of Cocoas and be supremely happy. Cocoa had the misfortune to be on the recieving end of a rather cold disbudding iron way back when, the results are the bad scurs she has instead of a smoothly disbudded head.  But she manages with them quite well and I keep them trimmed away from her head.  Cocoa kidded with buck and doe twins this year, the doeling I am retaining in my herd. UPDATE: I lost Cocoa in mid June very unexpectedly.  One of the saddest days that I have had since starting in goats.  Heres to the memory of a really great doe.