how many goats are too many?!

so how many goats are too many? i'm usually lucky enough to never have to answer vic with that question, i can usually just tell him how great his pond is looking or how big his trees are getting, he's got several fruit trees started from seeds...i think he'll plant just about anything now. hard to believe when we started living together all he had was one plastic plant!...side tracking...doe dee lost her baby this summer, i think he was a little preemie...i thought boo was pregnant but she lost it or wasn't...annie pulled thru with triplets! if you are counting that makes 13.

the girls were all in season a few weeks ago and duke and the "brothers gruff" were making me nuts! we'll see if i get spring babies, either way i'm afraid i gotta do some thinning out. duke was so bad i was about ready to haul him off, but he's my buddy (see my facebooks pics). he does need to get nutered if he stays anyway...he ain't exactly got genes i wanna pass on, i mean he's stocky and plain brown...no offense to any of my stocky friends. davey and daniel are taller and more interesting. dan looks more like a boer goat and i would love to get him and boo together to breed more meat goats to sell (yes i could). davey is just has a great classic goat look, beard, nice even, slant-back horns...and is such a poser!

annie had two boys and a girl; patch, alberto and bitsie. berto and bitsi are so small, i'm sure they will stay small like cha cha and lou loo did (annie's last girls). the hard part is that there are two more boys! i'm trying not to get too attached to patch, but berto is way too cute...he looks like our dog april, who is the herd keeper. toby is my barn buddy and junior is in charge of parameter security (coyote control). i'd like to keep berto to breed on the smaller goats for my pygmy herd which leaves davey or dan safe...

...so how many is too many?...hey nice plants you got growing there!