Welcome to Wags Ranch!
We are located on the northeastern edge of the Palouse region just east of Moscow, ID and have been raising Nigerian Dwarf dairy goats since 2007. We are constantly striving to improve our herd specifically and the breed in general. We were blessed to have amazing mentors from the moment we bought our first does, including one who was a judge and on the committee that wrote the breed standard. For years we participated in an informal Linear Appraisal (LA) with this retired judge.
In 2019 after moving to Idaho we signed up for ADGA Plus but were waitlisted for Linear Appraisal. We went ahead with the milk testing portion and all the does easily earned their. Due to issues with ADGA we did not do milk test in 2022, however we did finally get our first formal linear appraisal completed. The highlight of it was Wags Ranch Incredible Violet scoring a VEEE90 despite being 10 weeks post partum with a retained kid.
We will be going back to milk testing in 2023, and this portion of the region will be see Linear Appraisers return in 2024.
We use WADDL biosecurity screening and our herd last tested clean in January 2022.
We are located on the northeastern edge of the Palouse region just east of Moscow, ID and have been raising Nigerian Dwarf dairy goats since 2007. We are constantly striving to improve our herd specifically and the breed in general. We were blessed to have amazing mentors from the moment we bought our first does, including one who was a judge and on the committee that wrote the breed standard. For years we participated in an informal Linear Appraisal (LA) with this retired judge.
In 2019 after moving to Idaho we signed up for ADGA Plus but were waitlisted for Linear Appraisal. We went ahead with the milk testing portion and all the does easily earned their. Due to issues with ADGA we did not do milk test in 2022, however we did finally get our first formal linear appraisal completed. The highlight of it was Wags Ranch Incredible Violet scoring a VEEE90 despite being 10 weeks post partum with a retained kid.
We will be going back to milk testing in 2023, and this portion of the region will be see Linear Appraisers return in 2024.
We use WADDL biosecurity screening and our herd last tested clean in January 2022.
"Know the state of your flocks, and put your heart into caring for your herds...
And you will have enough goats’ milk for yourself and your family." - Proverbs 27: 23 & 27
And you will have enough goats’ milk for yourself and your family." - Proverbs 27: 23 & 27
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"I know of no pursuit in which more real and important services can be rendered to any country than by improving its agriculture, its breed of useful animals, and other branches of a husbandman's cares." - George Washington |
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"Cultivators of the earth are the most valuable citizens. They are the most vigorous, the most independent, the most virtuous and they are tied to their country and wedded to its liberty and interests by the most lasting bands." –Thomas Jefferson, Letter to John Jay (Aug. 23, 1785) |
