Bambi, the Alpine
Taking a nap with her long-earred friends!
Winter of 07

I began raising a variety of dairy and meat goats as a means to supplement the dietary needs of some of our foals. The first goat that I purchased was a non-papered Alpine doe (in the above photo) that came from a sale barn. Bambi is our herd boss, and will probably out live most of the goats. :)) (She's too awnry not to!)

The back acreage was opened up, and the pens were also opened up to give the goats quite a range to forage. When I am home from work, I take them for walks in the back 20 and they can eat their fill on leaves and acorns.

I have been fortunate to work with more than one breed of goat. When I started breeding registered goats, . I purchased 2 American Nubian doelings in 2003 which had not been cared for properly by the previous owner. I was impressed with the doelings tolerance, and willingness to please. Their will to live, and loving nature is what sold me on their breed even before I saw what their milk production was. Nubians traditionally are not always the brightest goats on the block, but they make up for it in personality and spirit.

Goddard Farm Sinbad the Sailor was the first PB Nubian herd sire, he did us proud his first breeding year, 2007. We have been blessed by some absolutely amazing kids from him. We bred Sinbad to our does prior to selling him this year. He left for his new home in September of this year. We have a few does bred to him for early spring kids. The choice to sell Sinbad was a difficult one. I wanted the best for Sinbad, for him to be shown and bred to many lovely does. He will always be special to me.

In Fall of last year, we added a beautiful Alpine doe, Piper to our herd. Piper comes from the Mt. Pleasure herd in Yellville, AR. We were so pleased with Piper's production, and the quality of babies that she produced, we added another fine doe to our herd this year.
Mt. Pleasure Laci Garters has joined us and is due in March. The Alpines were a perfect fit for us, so much so, that we added one more doeling Mi*Esperar Darshan's Yvonne.

This fall, we downsized the herd a little bit, and are looking forward to the kiddings that will start taking place in January!

Due to a poor selling experience to a local breeder, I will be adjusting my policies for selling goat kids for 2009 and beyond. All dairy goat kids will be raised on CAE prevention (bottle fed) and not be available for sale until they are weaning age (approximately 3 months of age) at which time the babies are able to integrate into a normal herd setting. It is understood that purchasers of registered stock have basic knowledge of goat husbandry skills.

All of my herd is CAE negative, and abscess free. Animals that are purchased from me are accompanied by a bill of sale, registration papers if applicable, health documentation. CAE testing is conducted annually and is documented!

If you are new to goats, or do not have a lot of experience caring for young goats, please contact me prior to reserving a kid. For the overall well being of American Made Dairy Goats, I respectfully reserve the right to decline a sale to any person(s) that does not demonstrate the ability to care for the animals properly.

All of our breeding stock is tested CAE Negative,abscess free,
and our Nubians are G6S Normal.