We invite you to visit our dairy to see for yourself where the cheese is made and meet the people who make it. When making the decision to start a goat dairy it was clear to Jim that goats were not at all like the cows he had milked as a young man working his way through college. Goats are more elegant and more intelligent than cows. Part of the attraction for goats is that they are about the size of a human being and have a more interactive, human quality to their personality. Because they are hand-raised, goats tend to be very bonded with people.
Goats are more like dogs than dairy animals.
They're very curious and need to touch everything with their mouths. They are bright, playful and seem to have a sense of humor about themselves. Goats are genetically related to deer and elk, not cows. In the dairy world female goats are known as does and male goats are called bucks. Like their cousins in the wild goats naturally breed in the fall and winter rather than year round like cows.