I live in central Illinois and am seeking some Nigerian dwarf goats for milk/cheese/ soap production. Anyone know if any they could rustle for me?
I did get an email from some Nigerian if you’re interested, but you might want to have your bank account info handy.
Noisiest Goddamn animal on the ranch. I want to kill it sooooo bad, in a swift and brutal fashion.
The (non-existant) milk is no good and I can not even imagine how bad soap 
from this horrid creature would stink. Un-cut Open Ass-Foot.
You need to reevaluate your desires.
My friends raise alpine goats…haven’t heard any horror stories like Gatopescado relays about Nigerian dwarves. They make milk/cheese/soap with their goat milk…and fudge! 
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I so misread the OP as “some Nigerian dwarfs for milk/cheese/ soap production.”
Seriously. That explains the 419 scam joke I made.
I think I should go to bed.
No, I totally expected that comment , based on some of the scam threads around here. I’m just surprised no one’s made a Snow White crack yet.
A friend of mine is also looking for one. It is kind of late in the year to find a kid. Also, selling price in western PA is between $350 and $500.
Gato, I’m not sure how bad un-cut open ass foot smells, but --wow-- apparently you have a very um, anti-social doe. If I get a doe that is that loud, I know my husband will insist that I move her into the freezer!
ZipperJJ – I now have to research goat milk fudge! Challenge accepted!
Just curious, limegreen. Do you live anywhere near Effingham?
I knew the adoption process is really screwed up but that seems cheap even for a Nigerian kid. Is this a secondary market for people who already have too many kids of their own?
Nigerian Dwarves? They say that there is a porn site for every fetish imaginable.
I’m about an hour and a half from Effingham.
I’ve met a Nigerian dwarf. But he’s not a goat; he’s an actor. Maybe he can play a goat but I suspect it would be beneath his dignity to do so.
I want a Nigerian Dwarf now too. The market rate of $300 - $500 seems really fair as long as the kid doesn’t have any really bad traits. Does anyone have any advice on how to care for such a kid if I can score one? In terms raw output, what could such a kid do for me?
A couple weeks ago I was talking to a woman who raises goats. She says the Nigerians are far harder to handle than the Alpine or Saarnen. Hard to catch, hard to milk. She was bottle raising four Nigerian kids for a friend who was hoping they’d turn out tamer.
Today on my local Craigslist, you can get a doe kid for $1-200 if you want to bottle feed.
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Yeah, Nigerian goats aren’t my favourite breed. In the petting zoo at my job we have a big mixed herd, and I prefer our beautiful La Mancha goat, Shadow, or Blondie, a big Nubian.
Around here Nigerians are basically pet goats, and rarely have the dairy qualities necessary for significant milk. Plus their udders have so little clearance you have to milk some of them into a pie pan. If you want production, get a real dairy breed of standard size. I have Kinder goats, which are about 2/3rds standard size but they are harder to find.
In California, a non-registered (i.e. not for showing at a goat show) dairy goat doeling would go for between $150 - $350 depending on quality. You won’t get milk until she is bred and then kids, so next spring at the earliest. Buying a kid is the slow way to get milk. A doe in milk will only be fifty bucks or so more. But most people won’t sell their good producing does.
Significant information: do not buy a goat from a herd that has not been tested free of the contagious and incurable diseases: CAE, CL, Johnes’ Disease. If the seller doesn’t know what those are or gives you a line o’ crap, move on. I’ve bought infected goats before and it is horrible.
Also, goats are only noisy if they are upset or lonely. Even noisy breeds like Nubians. Single goats are noisy because they are lonely.
First off, lets make it REAL clear- These beasts are my wifes. I occupy the the other half of the property, the “Foreign Car Service and Microbrew”.
And yes, that facker is stinky, unmilkable and generally a C$%T! Wife gets her on the milking stand and she does a “DeadMan” and drops down. Can hardly get a drop from her. And her kids are noisy beyond belief! The (and I’m not going to spell this right) cachoffany (told you) from the barnyard will drive you nuts! And she has some kind of “hard-on” for the Weiner dogs. Geez, she hates them and wants to kill them bad! Like what did they ever do to her? ( The wieners are the about the only critters I like around here. Hell, one knows “speak” and the other knows “mouse!”. Stone killers, both, actually.)
Un-Cut Open Ass Foot is pretty bad, I can tell you. Think sweaty Ass, and add in some really bad foot. A lot like a weiner dog, too! 
An okay standard sized dairy goat will give somewhere around two quarts a day of milk if milked twice a day. An excellent one will give above a gallon. Unless you buy a very high quality Nigerian bred for milk production you won’t get above a pint a day.
Dairy animals are not a small enterprise, they must be fed correctly and they MUST be milked every single day at the same time without fail (or they will dry up, or worse, fall ill). Goodbye vacations while they are lactating. Milk must be handled carefully and correctly if it is not to taste bad or make you sick. You aren’t going to get enough information about this from a message board.
Goats are herd animals and should not be kept as singles. You will need at least two. To get milk, you are going to need to breed your doe to a buck. Beginners should not keep bucks, they are dangerous, stinky, and need extra-strength housing. So you will need to make connections to breeders within driving distance.
Wethers (castrated males) and dry (non-lactating) does are easy to keep as long as you have correct housing, fencing, and feed for them. They eat all kinds of weeds – they like to eat what deer like to eat, not grass – and are more intelligent and personable than any other livestock except pigs.
Man, this site covers everything!