11/11/2024
4 years ago today a very special goat was born. The very first goat kid to be born under the Grace Bridge name!
Pamela was a backyard milking doe we acquired - at best guess a Nubian/Saanen mix. She was sweet and a brilliant milker but definitely not the kind of goat I’d breed from now 😅 Paired with Minilee Dimebag Darrell, a 75% Nigerian Dwarf buck, she produced triplet kids, a doe and two bucks. The buck kids were definitely much more their mother - long, droopy ears and big lanky legs.
Thankfully, the little doe kid Poppy was Nigerian Dwarf-ish enough to register her and begin our herd! It’s been a long process of breeding up from there and we’ve since acquired other foundation does that we built our herd on, but Poppy will always be a very special doe as the beginnings of Grace Bridge Miniature Goats.
Sadly she and her mother Pam have both since crossed the Rainbow Bridge, but were very lucky to still have Poppy’s daughter Grace Bridge PocketFullaPosy, and her granddaughter Grace Bridge GP Daisy Chains 🌼💐
A happy heavenly birthday to the kid that started it all, and a cheers to 4 years of Grace Bridge Miniature Goats! 🐐