HORSESHOE CANYON RANCH MEAT GOATS: January 2012

Friday, January 6, 2012

Out and About

The last few days the weather has been spring like. Not to go outside and enjoy it would be silly on my part, so today one of my activities was following around the goats and taking photos. I think they got tired of me showing up everywhere they went.

Winter alway has the goats on the move looking for food. They always start with the hay we roll out for the them and the horses.

100% NZ line-bred Blue Son Doe - Bred to a Generator son for Feb. kidding.

Spanish doe

This is one of my favorite goats. She a 3/4 Kiko doe from our breed-up program. She does a great job of raising good kids.

Purebred Blue's Son Doe bred to the Generator buck for a Feb. kidding.

Purebred daughter of Super Sport looking extra pregnant. She is not due until March.

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Our Goat History

We first purchased goats to help keep the brush down on the ranch in 1996 or 97. These were big wethers that eventually climbed the bluff's edge in spots we could not get fence and would get out. So they were sold after a few years.

Rock climbing evolved at the ranch and we started bolting routes in the bluff. That is when we realized we could bolt fence to our bluff.

The ranch had started to really become a jungle and goats were needed! We purchased a group of mixed breed does (thinking how fun it would be to have kids running about) and one lazy boer buck who's breeding days we pretty much done.

Later we became more serious about our goat breeding program and purchased our first Kiko buck in 2004. We have been using Kiko genetics ever since and are very pleased. In the late summer of 2009 we traveled down to TX and purchased some black pb Spanish doelings and now have two PB Spanish bucks. We look forward to their kids in 2011.

This blog will be our goat journal of our goat adventures. We hope you enjoy.