Our goats forage on land laced with fragrant woods, meandering creeks, lush prairies and hillside forbs, providing the quintessential, herbacious goat fodder. A reason our goats have gorgeous conformation and outstanding disposition. Also, why they produce the nutritionally rich and full-bodied goat’s milk Nubians are capable of. We offer a lifetime of mentorship with the sale of our goats.
The land is already proven to be an excellent source of nourishment yielding higher quality of hair, milk, meat, and even pets. Goats hardened on the land provide a litany of benefits to any herd, that most give little attention to. Such as acclimation to the elements, parasite resistance, savvy field and forage knowledge, self-medication, herd dynamic, strong progeny, excellent disposition and more. The conformation of all of the progeny born in our pastoral herd, is superior to that of the kids we initially started our foundation herd with.
Customarily, little consideration is given to the value provided by goats permitted time to develop among a foraging herd. Did you know a goat’s learning begins in utero, and continues before weaning? But the process is complete after weaning. Whereby knowledge of food avoidance, food selection and self-medication through plant secondary compounds, is complex social learning attained through observation and imitation. As is shaping proper feeding behavior, how and where to forage. Your pregnant does foraging on the land, are already training their kids what to eat!
Without the dam, the herder takes up the task. Thus the goats have to learn by trial and error, and relying on some memory that they retained from their dams in utero. This is only attainable if they are not predominantly confined.