Goats, goats and less goats

We started our goat "business" back last June. We bought thru the summer milk goats, meat goats and half and half. We watched them breed, watched wrestling matches between the big buck and my oldest athlete son and farmdad. Sometimes they won and sometimes he did. We had baby goats and had a 50% success rate keeping them alive. It is COLD up here and we didn't know when they would give birth. We have milked them. As of this date we have figured out [ we hope] , how to keep most of the babies alive. it is depressing to have them die. We have learned alot about the milking. We are getting almost a gallon a day from our Alpine/Saneen mix [ doesn't that sound like I know what I am talking about ]. But the meat goats were a bust. No one wanted to kill them and if truth be told no one wanted to eat them. So we put an ad in the paper and farmdad sold all 12 of them for $700.00. He figures we only lost about a $1000.00. but we learned alot.
Now we have 3 great milk goats, two baby milk goats and a milk buck who does not like to fight anyone.
I kind of hate to see our big mean buck go. I have had a bunch of laughs watching him take down my macho athlete son and my even more macho husband.