Nigerian Dwarfs & Crossed Goats

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Our herd is made up of does and wethers that free range our 20 acres. They forage wherever they like during the day and are safely secured in larger pen each evening where they receive a concentrated pellet feed, free access loose minerals, salt block, and fresh water. They also receive timothy alfalfa hay during the rare occasion that it is not safe for them to roam the property. We believe the active foraging rather than been penned all day provides a balanced happy life for our goats promoting health and balance.Our herd is regularly vetted and only dewormed when necessary due to fecal testing. 

Our registered Nigerian Dwarfs are beautiful small goats with great personalities. Our focus is on personality, size, substance, coloring, confirmation,  and milk quality. We aim to have an all around goat of great health and easy keeping that meets your expectations with a good pedigree. 

Our grade Nigerian Dwarfs may not be eligible to be registered but they are at the same level as our registered goats. We are focusing on the smaller stockier size within our unregistered goats. They will have great color and an even better personality along with being milk producers.  

We do occasionally have crossbred goats available of varying breeds which means they range in sizes and colors. We love having a mix herd of sizes and colors as it helps with land management on our property. The larger goats are able to reach higher vegetation while the smaller sizes will focus closer to the ground during foraging.  Currently our mix breeds are Nigerian Dwarf, Alpine, and American Lamancha crosses.

As a practice we do not remove or disbudd our goats or kids. We do have some that came to us disbudded and most of them do have scurs (scarring that forms into a faux horn). The process of disbudding requires a severely hot iron held to a week only kid to long enough to burn out each horn bud to prevent a horn from growing. This is cosmetic mutilation to the kid. There are theories that removing horns makes the goat safer for themselves and others. Our belief is that the horn removal does impact the health of the animal along with removing ability to protect themselves from predictors. 

I do want to note the Nigerian Dwarf is a dairy goat and that does require a goat to be polled or disbudded in order to be eligible to be shown. This means any registered Nigerian Dwarf you purchase from us will not be eligible to be shown unless it is naturally polled (genetically without horns).

Wethers (neutered/castrated males) do make the absolute best companions and pets. They are balanced animals free of hormone changes making them stable and predictable. Does are great as well but do come into heat every 3 weeks which causes a change in their behavior to a varying extent and does typically cause them to be quite a bit more vocally loud. Bucks are unique to themselves and should be only kept for breeding purposes as they can be driven and are smelly in comparison to wethers or does.