We are a holistic and natural homestead focused on high production, high quality Nigerian Dwarf dairy goats. We participate in performance programs like LA and will be on DHIA in 2024. We are a closed and annually disease tested herd. Our does are high capacity does who can put it in the pail will little intervention. Our top doe tipped the milk scale at 6 lbs 11.8 oz and our up and coming first freshener is producing right around 4lbs per day. The only routine non-natural medication we use is Baycox for coccidia prevention. We only use a chemical dewormer on our adult does if a fecal suggests that is is absolutely necessary (which is unlikely). We use natural means whenever possible. We utilize Little Avalon Farm Bug N’ Out as worm prevention and as an immune booster. Our focus is on environmental management to prevent disease rather than medication. Our goal is to be honest and trustworthy in our breeding practices and we take our position of animal caretakers very seriously. All animals are treated humanely with respect and honor.
We are focused on managing environment to prevent disease. We pride ourselves on tidy stalls and pastures with feed rotation through different species to prevent worms and waste. Stalls and feeding areas are cleaned daily and any wasted hay on the ground is removed and recycled to other species such as horses, donkeys or llamas. We utilize chickens and ducks to help break the parasite lifecycle in our pastures. We dam raise our kids and spend time daily with them from birth making not only incredibly healthy and robust kids but also very friendly and well socialized ones. Our kids are used to being handled daily. Kids are separated from dams overnight starting around 5 weeks old, dams are milked in the morning and returned to their kids for the day. We train our kids to "go to bed" in a separate area with their dams from birth so when separation time comes they still "go to bed" just without their dam. This leads to a completely uneventful and stress free separation process, no crying or fussing or stress of any sort occurs during this process. Buck kids are weaned between 9-12 weeks old and doe kids stay with their dams until sold or dam weaned. Our herd is partially polled, but we do disbud horned goats. We do not use any sort of chemical dressing etc. We shave the area pre-disbudding and then spray with vetrycin or colloidal silver afterwards. Kids are given Molly's Herbals Ow Eze prior to disbudding and two doses post disbudding to quell any discomfort, although they are back to normal immediately. We do not vaccinate, buyers are responsible for vaccinating kids if they so desire. We do not wether bucklings, if a buyer wants a wether to go with a doe they will be responsible for castrating.
We believe in breeding the best and eating the rest. Yes, most of our bucklings are grown out and put in the freezer not only for our family's consumption but also to help feed our naturally raw fed dogs. We do not believe that everything produced is breeding quality and therefore we utilize those animals for sustenance. We absolutely will not send any animal to the auction house or sales barn, period, full stop. We believe in humane and stress free lives for our animals, we will not put them through the horrors of an auction house and the low quality of life that so often follows that fate. They will be humanely and instantly harvested on our own property and without stress.
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Parasite Protocol: We do not use chemical dewormers on our doe pen unless the situation is truly dire, which has not happened. We use Little Avalon Farm Bug N' Out and cleanliness as prevention. We do use Baycox at 3,6,9 and 12 weeks in kids for prevention of coccidia.
Our ADULT buck pen is wormed with safeguard or ivermectin only when a fecal suggests that is is truly necessary. Buckling kids are NOT treated for worms prior to going to their new homes and are sold directly out of our doe pen at 9-10 weeks old. We use chickens and ducks in the buck pasture to help break the parasite lifecycle and we have very little issue.
Vaccination Protocols: No Vaccinations
