I started with goats in 2015 with an initial focus on Dairy, but unfortunate  circumstances called for a change of focus and now the herd is breeding for meat mostly, and I milk  just for personal use.   I do still have a couple of very nice ADGA registered, show quality, dairy does and hope at some point I will get a chance to grace the show ring again with them.  All of our goats have names and we try to know as much about them as we can and treat them as well as we treat our family pets.

      We had 24 head of doe's into the 2023/24 season and now going into the 2024/25 season we are at 32 head of breeding doe's.   We would like to grow even more, but that will be dependent on whether we are able to get a new barn constructed, because 50 head is about all that our current building set up can handle.

       After some major failures the first couple of years, and then some devoted education on my own and from a mentor or two, I am very proud to say now, that I have an excellent success rate with pregnancies, kidding and growth.  I have put together a comprehensive prenatal care plan that fits our program to a T, and with the assistance of our favorite feed mill working with my nutritional recommendations, have created a one size fits all feed tailored to meet all aspects of the goat.  We have been successful at eliminating digestive upset in all ages of our goats for 5 years now.   I credit a great deal of my success to the SWTC Annual Meat & Dairy Goat Academy presenters and also to the ADGA Convention speakers.  The very educated people they bring into these events to share their knowledge is priceless and so worth every dime you pay to go and listen to them.  My goats are happier and healthier for it.