Extent of Handling Facilities for Goats

[Mike CHS]

Here you go:

http://www.goatbay.com/breeder/bama-kiko/


Our plans changed again and we are going to sheep instead of goats.

 

[goatboy1973]

Thanks Southern. We have visited quite a few farms in our part of Tennessee. The only with that is that with Tennesseans, there is no such thing as a short visit. LOL

We have visited a farm that has Boer/Kiko cross that we are going to get for our own use and we visited a farm in Tuscaloosa that has a nice strain of purebreed Kiko that will give us our herd sire. We plan to start with some Kiko percentage stock from another farm in Tennessee at least for our first year.

It's going to be an intentionally slow start mostly because my two years worth of planning changed in the last 3 months.

If you ever decide to come east toward Knoxville, we would love for you to visit our family farm. We are just 5 mins. from Knoxville in Corryton and are a "Pick Tennessee Product" farm. To my knowledge, we are the only true "Pick Tennessee" meat goat operation in the state as of January 2014. We raise/ preserve the Koy Ranch type of Heritage Spanish Meat goat. These are directly descended from the goats that Christopher Columbus brought with him when he discovered North America and they are endangered. They are tough as nails are very similar in body type and appearance to the Kiko goat. They cross well with the Kiko also. Visit our website www.calfeefarms.net or our Facebook page www.facebook.com/calfeefarms

 

[goatboy1973]

We should have some fast growing bucklings both pure Spanish and high % Spanish for sale in a few weeks (mid-June). Most will be about 60 lbs at that time (weaning) being only 4 months old. Good for crossing with Boer or Boer/ Kiko cross does. My Spanish babies are up and nursing in less than 15 mins after being born and by day 3 or sooner they are impossible to catch for ear tagging etc.