tHE ANGORA ANiD MILKITSTG GOATS: 3l9 



The period of gestation in the Angora is 

 about 150 days. A buck will serve from 40 to 

 50 does. 



The buck should be managed as has been ad- 

 vised for sheep, though some breeders practice 

 turning in about 5 bucks to the hundred does 

 and leaving them, with the result that nearly 

 all the kids come at one time. This may be a 

 good practice if the breeder can manage them 

 in that way. 



The kids must not come before warm weather. 

 After the leaves start in the spring is the proper 

 time. The does should be sufficiently well nour- 

 ished to be strong at kidding time, though one 

 must not overdo this kindness, else the kids 

 will come weak. Abundant exercise for the doe 

 with sufficient food will make a successful kid- 

 ding. 



Angoras must have care and attention at kid- 

 ding time, much more than ewes require. The 

 little kids are delicate and can not endure cold 

 or wet. They are not hardy and must not 

 follow their mothers out to graze before they 

 are six or eight weeks old. Should they at- 

 tempt to follow they will become weary and lie 

 down to rest and become lost. Therefore, they 

 are kept in the corral and a board put up over 

 which the mother must jump. When the kid 

 can also jump out it may follow her. 



A better scheme is the "bridge." This is an 

 incline ending abruptly in the air, the high end 

 at the corral side. The does jump up on this to 

 go out and the weaklings run under where they 

 can not get through. Thus they are removed 



