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5/20/2025 0 Comments

Memorial Day Weekend Sale

I know every year I say I am cutting back and am, but I think this will be the most drastic cut of all.  Only 5 adult does will be staying and will be selling both of my current bucks and looking for a single buck to replace them.  When it is all said and done there will be 10 or fewer total goats left by this fall.  It has been more than 15 years since my numbers has been that low.  

So in order to speed up the process, I am having a Memorial Day Sale, slashing prices on all of the goats up for sale.   Some of the kids will be ready for weaning by then, others will be very close to it.  So sales may be contingent on kids reaching weaning age.  Adult does will be $400 (most will be in milk), dry yearlings $350 and 2025 kids will be $250 each.  

Adult bucks will be $750 each and I am open to a trade for a blue-eyed buck who's pedigree is as filled with high LA scores as Docs. 

One 2025 buck kid will be $400, and a single pair of wethers will be $150 for the pair - and only available as a pair. 

I am still trying to get good kid pics, and will be posting the 2025 kids on a separate sales page soon.
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4/20/2025 0 Comments

Triplets for Mojito x Ace

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Mojito kidded with triplets out of Stranger's Ace  around 1 am this morning.  First born was a very flashy buck kid.  He was followed by two doe kids all delivered with Mojito standing up.  All three appear to have their dam's blue eyes and I haven't looked for moonspots yet. 

We continue with the Rum related drinks/brand names for Mojito's doe kids.  So the first doe kid will be called Mia Tia (T9) and the second will be called Bacardi Gold (T10).   The boy will be a wether so he will be probably remain nameless for now.

Next up to kid will be Breezy who is due on the 24th of April. 
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3/17/2025 0 Comments

Triplet does kids for Freya x Dr Pepper

Freya must have over heard me saying that we rarely get afternoon kiddings, so of course she kidded in-between barn checks shortly after lunch.  Three more girls to add to Docs total for the year.  He is up to an 8:1 ratio.  Two of the girls are blue-eyed buckskins and one appears to be all black with blue-eyes.  Kids will be available after weaning.

We no get a break until late April when Mojito and Breezy are due.  
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3/14/2025 0 Comments

QUADS for Dr. Pepper x Amaretto

Amaretto barely looked pregnant the morning before she kidded with quads on March 13th..  The first kid was a stuck breech which which my daughter helped into this world.  Amaretto then went on to surprise us with three more kids for a total of 3 girls and 1 boy.  That brings Doc up to 5/1 so far from two does.  So he is off to a good start this year.

Unfortunately the second born girl was very tiny and undernourished, and despite our efforts throughout the night she passed away early the following morning.  Less than 12 hours old, but at least she was warm and had lots of love before she passed away.

Next up to kid is Freya.  She is also bred to Doc and is looking like she too is getting close to kidding.
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Kids are in birth order right to left.  The mostly black doe kid was the first, the second passed, the third is the black and white doe with a single spot on each side.  And the buckling looks like his dam.  He will be available as a pet wether.
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3/13/2025 0 Comments

Twin doe kids to start off the 2025 kidding season

We kicked off this years kidding season on the evening of March 11th with two beautiful blue-eyed doe kids out of Dr Pepper and Pepper Potts.  Of course with "Pepper" in both parents names it was pretty easy to come up with a couple of pepper names.  T1 - will be named Jalapeno and T2 - will be named Belle.  As much as I would love to keep these girls I'm still in herd cutting because of my increasing disability so these girls and possibly their dam will be available after weaning.
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1/29/2024 0 Comments

Updated Sales Page

I really put little effort into selling my 2023 doe kids.  I was so on the fence about having to disperse the herd.  Honestly I still am on the fence about it.  I so enjoy my goats, but my health doesn't always let me spend the time with them I would like to.  

So at present I have four 2023 doe kids listed and should probably have all five listed - the 5th one being Mojito's doe kid Amaretto.  She hasn't seen me much and no longer gets so excited to see me like she did when she was little.  But she is still a very sweet girl.  

I probably will put Valkyrie up for sale.  She is my very best doe out of Violet who had an LA score of 90 despite having a retained kid and dying as a result about 6 weeks later.   I believe she has great potential to equal or better her Dam's LA score.    If you do milk test, LA and show she may be the doe for you.  She would be a 3*M.   Drop me a message and we can talk about her.

I may disperse the entire herd this spring or keep just a couple as pets, as I just can't imagine having an empty barn after 17 years of goat keeping.  

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8/7/2023 0 Comments

Letting go....

I haven't blogged a lot this year.  I've been down with acute back issues and have been seeing a spine specialist.   This latest bout had me out of the barn for three weeks. Thankfully my daughter is home from college for the summer and she has picked up all of my chores.

Knowing I won't always have help available I considered a total herd dispersement.  But I just couldn't see myself being completely goatless.   So I am keeping three adults and 2 kids from this year.  Not easy choices and some of the ones up for sale are family favorites due to their friendliness.  I kept my two most standoffish does not because I don't like friendly goats, but because in such a small herd I think I can convince them to be more people friendly.  

So that leaves me with an updated sales page that includes 4 blue-eyed ADGA registered adult does, two of which are in milk.  Also three 2023 doe kids all with blue-eyes.  Lots of great pedigrees and high LA scores behind these ladies.   
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5/28/2023 0 Comments

Spring on the Ranch

After losing Violet last fall, and then having health issues of my own, and computer issues I have been rather neglectful on keeping up with the news.  So here is a recap before the next round of kidding occurs.
On 3/25 Gal x Tundra produced quads, 3 bucks and 1 adorable doe kid that will be retained.   Gal short cycled and I bred her to Tundra again and apparently both times took.  After she delivered the placenta 8 hours post kidding with what we thought was just triplets out popped a huge single buck kid that was DOA.  My best guess he is was a product of the first breeding as he had a different placenta and was almost twice the size of the other three.    
On 4/16 Kaimu x Tundra kidded with a single large buckling. He was as large or larger Gal's kid that had a three weeks head start on him.  We have nicknamed him Rocket man and he has such a big personality and he loves to jump.  He is going to be a wether companion to his sire. 
Introducing our newest buck - *B TILL-RIV TA DR PEPPER.   This blue-eyed boy born in 2021 will be replacing Tundra as one of our two herd sires.   Tundra will be staying locally within the county so we will be seeing him again.   Doc's dam has an LA score of VEEE91 that she received as a  9 year old.  In 2020 she received the ANDDA Total Performer Award. 
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2/15/2023 0 Comments

RIP Incredible Violet

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I have been trying to write this post for months now.   I still can't talk about this beautiful girl without getting choked up.   If you read my blog entry from July 25, 2022 you know that we had Linear Appraisal that day and the Violet was scored VEEE 90.  At that time she was 10 weeks post partum with a retained kid.  

WSU veterinary hospital checked her again in Sept and said that the skeleton wasn't breaking down or encapsulating and that there was nothing to be done.  They could put her down, or we could take her home with an uncertain future.  "She could live another 2 days or 2 years, there is no way to know."   We couldn't bring ourselves to have her put down and planned to make her time with us as comfortable as possible.  She passed away during the night of Oct 15th/16th.

We buried her in the pasture and the remaining herd gathered round to watch as we lowered her into the grave.  A little later I was sitting outside the barn and little Vortex walked over and stood looking over the pasture.  She gave a soft mama call, and then her older half sister Valkyrie walked out of the barn and stood shoulder to shoulder with her. Just two lost sisters looking off into the distance and missing their mama. 

I had managed not to cry up until that moment but that just wrecked me.  Valkyrie and Violet were close, but when Vortex came along she and Valkyrie were kind of at odds with each other.   So to see Valkyrie be the one to step up was so sweet.   

Out of all the goats I have loved and lost over the last 16 years, the loss of my first doe Mame' and now her grand-daughter Violet who looked so much like her, have been my hardest losses.  Mame' and I had a special bond and while Violet and I didn't share that same bond, I waited two years for her to be born, and all my efforts to get Linear Appraisal for my herd were so she could get the recognition I knew in my heart she deserved.   RIP Violet! 
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8/16/2022 0 Comments

Does in Milk for sale

I really did think I had done enough - cutting my herd back to only 12 total, but with my daughter leaving for University tomorrow, and me having a extra tough time walking the past two weeks, it has hit home that I still need to make cuts no matter how much it hurts my heart to do so.   Since Violet will be on a break, that only leaves me one second freshener (my daughters doe Lotus) and 3 first freshners to kid next year.  Four is doable, especially if I can stagger their kiddings out enough for me to recover inbetween times.  

So I have listed Creamy and Gal for sale as does in milk.   Both are two years old and have blue-eyes. Creamy is a 2nd freshener with exceptional teat length and large orifices.  She is one of my all time favorite does to milk in over past 15 years, and she stands quietly for hoof trimming.  Gal is a very promising first freshener who is also people friendly and has great milk stanchion manners.  Her teats are not as long as Creamy's but her orifice size is good and she is easily hand milked. 

I am offering a discount if they are purchased together.  I have found that purchasing does in pairs tends to make their transition to a new home easier on them.  

We do the biosecurity screening through WADDL and have always received negative results.  2022 results are available upon request. 
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