Goats are wonderful smart sweet, smaller farm animals, goats come in different breeds which range in size from Tiny to Large, fitting most small farms needs. There are Dairy Goats and Meat Goat breeds or Dual Purpose breeds, There is a thriving market with regards to showing goats starting at the local fairs and working their way up to the nationals yearly.

 The most common breed currently for meat purpose would have to be Boar goats while my personally favorite dairy breeds are Saanen and LaMancha or a cross breed between these two breeds with Nubian Sire. The Saanen has lots of milk, the Nubian has the highest fat content of the breeds, so their cross’s make wonderful family milk goats, lots of milk, with lots of Butterfat for cheese making. Plus the Nubian add’s in some very pretty colors and patterns.

Goat Milk flavor appear to me to be directly related to the breed of goat and the feed that the goats are on. I have been surprised at how different each goats milk can taste, some are very strong and some are as sweet and light as cows milk, if you are looking for a family goat, I would recommend if possable that you start with a older freshened girl, who’s milk you can try to see if you like it.

The side effect of breeding those girls for milk, is offspring, and as most of the world knows, Goat meat is a excellent, if you have not tried it before, I would recommend it, which leads me to my main recipe of the day.. Goat Meatballs with a elderberry glaze.

Breakfast-FG- Red River Porridge with a bit of sheep milk/touch of maple Syrup

Lunch: FG-Supper Leftovers,

DH-Breakfast:  2 scrambled eggs w/ steak spice; 2 slices bread w/ peanut butter
DH-Lunch:  Supper Leftovers
DH-Snacks:  two cookies; one peice of the loaf, one orange, plus trail mix and the last segment of Rhubarb cake.

Supper- Goat Meatballs with Elderberry Glaze, Oven Roasted Carrots, Potato’s, Onion, an Cabbage.

Goat Meatballs.

• One pd of Ground Chevon
• One small onion, peeled and Finely Diced
• 1 Clove Garlic peeled and Finely Diced
• 1/4 cup dried breadcrumbs
• 1 egg
• 1/2 tstp Salt, Pepper, Turminic, Pinch of Nutmeg or all spice.

Put everything in a bowl and mix together with clean hands, then make tiny meatballs and place on tray, bake in the oven at 350 till done about 15 min, these little tasty meatballs can be used in many ways, but today we are going to take half of them and put them into a lovely Elderberry Jelly Glaze to finish them off..

Drinks-Water, Tea.

Snacks: Snap Cookies- 2 Dozen Small Cookies

• 1/4 cup oil or fat of some kind
•  3/4 cup packed brown sugar
• 1 egg
• Pinch of Salt
•  1 tsp ground Ginger
•  1 tsp Baking Powder
• 1 an half cups flour

 Cream the oil/sugar, then add the egg and mix it in, then add the dry an mix, take tiny balls then flatten with a fork twice in a criss-cross pattern, bake for 8 to 10 min at 350 oven. Makes 2 dozen tiny crispy crunch cookies.

Extras: One Batch of Sheep Milk White Bread (Replace the buttermilk with sheep milk) out of which I made one regular loaf of sandwhich or toast bread, eight small dinner buns, one 8 by 8 pan of herb bread, and one set of eight Poppy Seed Dessert Buns.