2012 has started off with a bang!  We started kidding the beginning of January with a set of twins & triplets born.  The majority of the kid crop will come in February.  We expect to finish kidding by the end of May.  We have been really pleased with increased birth weights this year.  We credit this to fall grazing at the kudzu gully and harvested soybean & cotton fields.  Although the winter was very cold & snowy, we were also pleased to see our goats kid during the day with little assistance, if any, from us.  It's amazing how easily Kiko mothers deliver their kids and get them up and nursing. 

We are happy to announce that we have added a new buck to our herd sire group.  His name is "Sarah's Son".  His mother, Sarah, is a famous old goat.  He has sired several of this year's kids.  Check out the Doeling & Buckling pages.

Five of our bucklings competed in the 2011 Oklahoma Meat Goat Performance Buck Test this summer.  They finished above average.  In 2010 we won 1st place, 3rd place and the 2010 Herdsman Award.  This test is open to all types of goats and measures genetics by how fast they grow and how parasite resistant they are.  The overall result shows how good your herd genetics are.  We are very pleased with the results!  A kid's first 90 days reflect on their mother, while the next 90 days reflect on their father. 

Here are a few pictures of our does...  



Sunning themselves on an early spring morning...




Don't you just love this little face?



Grannie is from East Tennessee.  Not only did she come west with Ellie Mae, she is our oldest doe. 



These girls love eating kudzu.  They browse every afternoon at the kudzu patch. 


Little goats playing "follow the leader".  A mama watching over them...