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Please email or call to discuss prices, reservations, and availability, and to set up appointments to visit.
Reservations are $100 for a doeling or buckling, $50 for a wether. I reserve the right to retain for my herd any kid born here. I do not plan to breed all my does this year, but if you would like a kid from a doe that is not listed on the kidding schedule, we can discuss it. If you reserve a kid before it is born, the price listed on the kidding schedule is locked in. If the doe does not produce enough offspring for the number of reservations, you may choose to have your deposit returned, or to apply it to another available kid. If you choose not to purchase the kid you reserved, your deposit is not refunded. Please make arrangements to take posession of the kid in a timely manner; otherwise, there may be board charges. Thank you for understanding and helping to make this process go smoothly.
All goats are dual registered with AGS and ADGA, and the senior does are on milk test through the Langston DHI lab under the auspices of AGS and ADGA. All adult goats are blood tested for CAE, Johne's, and CL on a regular basis, and all new animals are tested for Brucellosis and TB as well. December, 2009, test results from Washington Disease Diagnostic Lab: all goats tested for CAE, CL, and Johnes; all sheep for CL and Johnes; the llama for Johnes -- all negative. April, 2011, all goats tested for CAE, CL, and Johnes, all negative.
The kids are usually ready to go to their new homes around two to three months old. All kids are handled extensively and partially bottle-fed for socialization, so they are very friendly. When you pick up your kid at two months or older it will be disbudded, tattooed, wormed, vaccinated, and accompanied by a complete health record, and most wethers will already be wethered. Wethers (neutered males) are $100 each when purchased with another wether or a doe or buck. Does and breeding bucks are individually priced according to their show potential and the quality of their parents. Discounts for multiple purchases of breeding stock: $100 off for a second doe or buck.
Buck kids are generally neutered at two to three months and sold as pets, although I will keep the most promising ones intact as long as possible. Write or call to see what kids are still available as bucks if you are interested.
Similarly, the ram lambs will be neutered at 3-4 months and go to the butcher in the fall, but let me know if you want a ram for breeding early enough so it doesn't get neutered.
The links in the table below go to the dam and sire's pages, and to individual pictures of each kid after it is born.
| 2012 Lambing Plans | |||
| dam | sire | date of lambing | lambs/comments |
| Hythe Annalise | Swiftriver Featherrock | purebred Shetlands | |
| Fairlea Sheila | Swiftriver Featherrock | purebred Shetlands | |
SENIOR DOES FOR SALE. Follow links for pictures and further information on each doe.
**Family Milker Available: Fairlea Geneva. IN MILK. New Photos at link. Caesar's Villa BB Rebel Yell x Fairlea Florence. Two-year-old first freshener, potential brood doe or family milker, top bloodlines, productive milker. $400. Sale pending.
SENIOR BUCKS FOR SALE.
**Fairlea Cyrano de Bergerac *S *B. Rosasharn's TL'Ugene *S x ARMCH Fairlea Fleur 3*D E, 3*M. Cream and white with wattles. $400.
ADULT GOATS FOR LEASE:
**My bucks are sometimes available for lease to approved farms within driving distance (link to buckpage for further information).
SHEEP:
**Two-year-old ewe for sale, purebred but unregistered American Blackbelly (Barbados). $100.
BANTAMS:
Old English silvers and black-breasted reds, all ages and both sexes. The roosters have absolutely stunning plumage, and they are very conscientious guardians of their hens and fathers to the chicks. The hens are excellent egg producers and mothers. They will also happily hatch and mother any other type of egg you put under them (duck, big chicken, game bird, etc.). Although the chickens are a bit oversized for show purposes, the eggs are therefore a very convenient size, just 1/2 the size of standard chicken eggs and just right for using in recipes.