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For the story of how we got our name and logo, click
here.
When our family first became interested in goats, Dad and Mom bought each child a Boer breeding
doe, and a Boer market wether. Since then, our herd has greatly expanded as my brothers and I have invested the money
from our market wethers and other animal projects back into developing our goat herds.
Now,
three fairs and three market sales later, we have a total of four breeds, and a constantly changing number of goats, depending
on the season. My brothers and I do all of the milking and feeding chores, and are taking over more and more of
the other responsibilities in the barn. Dad helps us with cleaning out the pens, and Mom handles phone calls and
milk products. When my brothers and I started thinking about buying milk goats, our parents made the wise decision
that they would not learn how to milk. This made it clear that milking chores would be our job, and we were
not tempted to ask them to fill in for us. I highly recommend this to parents, because we learned so much
responsibility from the experience.
Dad's "project animal" is Ferguson (7A+ Ferguson), our stinky Boer buck. The whole family gave it to him as a birthday present a year or two ago - good thing he can't
smell! Dad helps us with breeding goats, giving vaccinations, and operating machinery.
Mom loves the Nigerian Dwarf goats. It's like the breed was tailor made for her! She enjoys their small
size, sweet attitudes, and ease of raising. Her love of pedigrees, experiments, bloodlines, bottlefeeding, research,
showing, birthing, and more, is all wrapped up in this easy-to-care-for little package. Treasure (Pholia Farm Whimsical Treasure) is her only Nigerian Dwarf doe at the moment, but Mom is very involved with my Nigerians, as well. Helping me with
our Nigerian Dwarf breeding program is definitely one of her favorite things to do.
Kelsie - that's
me! - is in charge of building the website, and keeping it up-to-date. I am involved with every breed of goats that
are currently on our farm, and I love it! , Toasty (Rocki Acres Toasted Marshmallow), and Wazzu (Chev Chevisance DV Wazzu) are my Boer does. My dream is to develop a line of "Milking Boers" - dual purpose goats that produce both
a home meat supply, and a home milk supply. You can find more information about this on our Boer page. Two of
the Nubians are mine: Lily (My-Enchanted-Acres LMR Lily 7*M), and CallaLily. Lily has been a wonderful show goat for me. She is extremely sweet, a little clueless, and she is very attached
to me. There are some funny stories about her on her page. Pertaining to my involvement with our
Oberhaslis, I co-own Nice (Udderly-Crazy Twyc As Nice) with Jacob, and he's planning to buy her from me outright pretty soon. Nigerian Dwarfs are also one of my big (or
rather, small) breeding enterprises. I like the challenge of improving upon our herd. Bamboo (Old Mountain Farm Big Bamboo), our Nigerian buck, is mine, and so are Lucille (AGS Herzinger's ZIP Lucille), and Cue (Pholia Farm KM Rendezvous). Party (Chevisance BIG Party) is a recent doeling addition to my Nigerian herd.
Jacob helps me out a lot with the website,
and if you find any competitive statements about Epiphany (Chevisance BIG Epiphany) or Oberhaslis, he's probably the one who put them there. Whoopin-Heimer is his only Boer doe. Oberhaslis were his first specialty, starting his herd with Legacy (GCH Udderly-Crazy Angel's Legacy 3*M), and soon after adding Nice (Udderly-Crazy Twyc As Nice). More recently, however, Epiphany became a much-celebrated addition to his herd. Fondly called the "Mighty
Midget" or "Piff", this little Nigerian Dwarf truly was an epiphany from Jacob's only-Oberhasli attitude.
In appreciation for all of the milking chores he took over for me when I went to several 4-H and FFA events in 2006, I gave
Jacob the first Nigerian Dwarf doeling that was born on our farm.
Logan has only one Nubian
at present, but he eagerly awaits her expected kidding date in May. Roxy (My-Enchanted-Acres PicaBooRoxy 1*M) has been a wonderful show doe for Logan, as well as a great milk goat for our family.
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