Goats - Kiko, Kiko/Spanish, Kiko/Boer/Nubian/Spanish

CURRENTLY FOR SALE: (All born on our farm). 1. Bucklings/Herd Sires - Born Apr 2023 - Ready now - please see separate post in Fayetteville, AR Craigslist - $200 and up 2. SOLD - Buckling/Herd Sires - Year and a half old - Ready now - please see separate post in Fayetteville, AR Craigslist - $300 3. Wethers - Born Apr 2023 (about a year old) - Ready now - please see separate post in Fayetteville, AR Craigslist - $200 and up 4. Yearling Does - Born Apr 2023 - Ready now. 5. Goat families - Does with Kid(s) - Ready now. - $350 and up. BOOKING ORDERS FOR: 1. Weathers – Now through Christmas 2025 and everything in between. Market price - a 60-70 lb. weather will be about $200 2. Bred does (our most popular package) - Nov 24 to Feb 25 - See details below. - $250. 3. Yearling Does - Spring 2025 For those who don’t want to read the entire post. Here is a summary: 1. Contact hours 8 AM to 8 PM. 2. Texts from local numbers only. If we don't respond to your text then likely our spam blocker blocked you, so best to call and leave a message. Don’t bother with codes. You will be blocked. 3. Calls from all other numbers for first contact. Please leave a message because we can’t answer the phone right away most of the time. 4. Emails without a VERIFIABLE phone number included are treated as scam so will not be responded to. All other emails responded to once or twice a week only as we find time to get to a computer. 5. Most of the questions you are likely to have are answered below in this post. 6. We try to respond to everyone in a timely manner, but we have a fairly large goat operation with 80+ adults and 80+ kids, and a sizable hay operation (ALL HAY IS SOLD, unless you are buying goats from us), so please be patient with us as we might not be able to respond right away. Please search for Goats in the Fayetteville AR, Craigslist to see what specifically we have for sale at this time. We’ll update those ads as the stock is sold or more is added for sale. So, if you call/text asking if we have goats for sale, we will assume that is spam and not respond. After a busy Spring and Summer of 2023, we are ready to send some good breeding stock to area farms. 1. We are inviting those who are seriously looking at purchasing a small herd to schedule a farm visit now to see what we have and share your plans. We will do our best to put together something for you that meets your needs. For those considering serious investment in future years, we are willing to sign a contract with a ‘Right of First Refusal’ clause for next few years of livestock crop with prices pegged to some USDA listed price figures, if you so choose. This should put you at ease about continuous supply of additional breeding stock for the next few years. 2. Those who have bought goats or hay from us in the past are always a priority for us and don’t have to wait for our annual sale. They are always welcome to stop by anytime and see what we have for sale. Many stop by or text and share how things are going for them. 3. New clients who are looking to get one or two goats at this time, please call/text us with your name and what you are looking for and we’ll let you know what we have, so you can plan your visit accordingly. 4. For anyone new to raising livestock, our advice is to start small. We started with 3 does that our friends gave away to us because they had too many. Beginning next spring, in cooperation with our County Extension Agent, we will be holding farm tours - Raising Goats 101 and Raising Goats 201, for those who are toying with the idea of raising goats and also for those who are considering expanding their operation. Please note that goats are social animals, so we will not knowingly sell just one animal unless you already have other goat(s). We have had buyers from about 200 mile radius within Arkansas and the surrounding states. With a bit of advance notice, we’ll accommodate your schedule, if you are planning to be in the area for other reasons and would like to visit our farm during that time. We are generally available between 10 AM and 7 PM almost 7 days a week including most Holidays. We make our own hay and if you are thinking of starting a herd, you’ll get priority for hay. Considering that square bales are impossible to find at reasonable prices these days, this should put you at ease come winter. With fertilizer prices still high and erratic rainfall, there is no guarantee that we’ll have enough hay for everyone, but so far, we have not run out of hay for anyone who has bought goats from us. Please book (no deposit required) a reasonable amount of square bales when you buy our goats. We have sold out of our hay for at least the next several years or so. We do not have hay for sale for any new clients unless they also buy goats from us. We have some pictures posted with this ad, but that does not mean any or all those pictured are for sale. We have some goats that are special to us, some that are our foundation stock, but in the end, some have to leave just to cover the cost of feed and mineral. So, if you absolutely must have something we have, please feel free to make us an offer that we can’t refuse. A few years ago, we added a Kiko/Spanish buck with wattles to our heard and we have some very cute kids with wattles. Last year we added a full Spanish buck and so we now have very colorful kids with wattles. They will be priced appropriately, but Hurry! These are being offered as breeding stock only, except for the Wethers and Bucklings. We keep a close eye on the USDA monitored goat auctions in the surrounding area. The prices of these goats are around the current goat prices per pound, so if you think you can buy all the goats and make a quick buck, please don’t bother. We hate to sell good breeding stock by the pound (we all know what that generally means) and would love for our stock to stay in the area so our area continues to have good supply of breeding stock. Without good and sizable breeding stock in the area, we won’t have a good supply of quality commercial stock which then makes the market less desirable for the commercial buyers which brings fewer buyers to the local auctions and lower prices to the producers. So it is in our, and other area producers' best interest that good breeding stock stay local to our area. The days of goats selling for $50 each are over. We don’t know if and when those days will be here again. We sold our first buckling for $60 which was high price then, but things are way different now, so please be prepared for a sticker shock, if you have not followed the goat market in the last few years. Our primary product is weathers for the commercial market that we sell directly off the farm or at USDA monitored auctions in the area. We watch the local and national market and price our stock accordingly. We pay market price for feed, fuel and fertilizer, so we think it is fair that we ask for market price for our product. Considering the current market, we believe our pricing is fair. Except for the doelings, we can sell bred does so you don’t have to have a buck in the first year. Some of our best clients are those who have bought bred stock. Once you select your doe(s), we’ll sign a contract with a $50 deposit for each doe. We’ll put the doe(s) with one of the bucks and you’ll be required to pick up the doe(s) 7 weeks after that. With a 3 week cycle for the does, they would have had two chances to be bred by that time. You’ll get a ‘live animal’ guarantee i.e. if something unfortunate happens to the stock you’ll get your money back, but it is your responsibility to test the doe(s) for pregnancy. We have about 95% pregnancy rate so we have never bothered to test. There will be no guarantees that the doe(s) will be bred, but please know that our program wouldn’t be viable for us if the breeding rate was any lower than 95%. Please read further down below about our approach to raising goats, especially the Feed, Medicine and Dewormer sections there. Our goal is to raise goats as naturally as possible with minimal medicine and intervention. Delivery available within a reasonable distance to well qualified buyers only. We can deliver much further if you are buying a herd. If you ask us to deliver a herd without looking at any of the goats first, we’ll consider that to be a scam and report you to the authorities, so please don’t waste our time if you don’t want to come and look at the goats. We may ask you for additional details if you are a buyer living quite a ways from us. Last time, we tracked a high schooler, all the way to Utah, who wanted us to deliver hay to a local Northwest Arkansas address. We know law enforcement has plenty on their hands already, so let’s not put additional burden on them. We can send a video or show live video feed if you live quite a distance from us, but if you live 10 miles down the road and do not want to come and look at the goats, then let’s not waste each other’s time. Cash only or checks from well qualified buyers only. Please call or text the number in the picture only between 10 AM and 8 PM. If you don't have a local phone number it is best that you call and leave a message so we know it is not a scam. We don’t check email that often. If you email, please include a VERIFIABLE local phone number otherwise we’ll consider that to be scam and not respond. In response to our ads, we often get questions about anatomical details of our goats. We raise goats for hardiness and the commercial market and not show business, so don’t know anything about form and correct anatomical proportions. Please come and take a look at what we have if you are in the show business and want to increase hardiness of your stock. Maybe, we can learn something from you. We are looking for a proven buck or buckling – Kiko, Spanish or Kiko/Spanish for trade or cash. THIS IS LIVESTOCK. ALL SALES ARE FINAL. NO GUARANTIES/WARRANTIES OF ANY SORT. Thanks! ----- Our program ---- Please read below for more information about our program. We have raised goats in west Benton county AR – closer to OK and MO border – for over a dozen years and developed some hardy stock for the local hot and humid climate. While we have learned a lot about what NOT to do from our mistakes, this does not mean we know what to do or what might or might not work for your program. We are happy to share what we have learned, but please know that we are NOT trained veterinarians, professional ranchers or licensed (if anything like that exists) to provide advice on raising goats. Feed, Medicine, Minerals & Supplements: Our goats are rotated on 6 pastures (herbicide and pesticide free). They are on pasture and hay year round getting supplemental feed (non-medicated). The feed comes from a local feed mill in west Benton County. Our goats are given CDT shots, loose mineral and copper bolus only - no antibiotics, unless recommended by our veterinarian to a particular animal only, but never on a regular basis - Never any hormones or steroids. We do not give any preventative medicine especially for Coccidiosis which is commonly mixed in most commercial goat rations. On the rare occasion they need veterinary care, they are attended to by one of the best goat veterinarian in the county, if not the entire four state area. Ask your veterinarian if they raise goats, ours does and so there is a difference. Dewormer: Our objective is to raise goats that score higher on the Famacha scale and not necessarily have low worm egg count in their fecal samples though that is always a plus. We do not test for worm egg count in fecal samples – we are fortunate in that sense and our microscope sits unopened in its box. There are programs that worm their goats almost monthly to reduce fecal worm count and soon run out of a dewormer that works for them once the worms develop resistance to the dewormers. With rotational grazing, we rarely have to worm our goats and only those that show signs of worms. Please google (Barberpole worm - Haemonchus contortus) to read more about how goat worms have become resistant to most dewormers because of overuse. Last summer our County Extension agent focused on the diminishing effect of dewormers on small ruminants i.e. sheep and goats, in his monthly newsletter. This spring, in collaboration with our County Extension Agent and the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville Department of Agriculture, we participated in a study to evaluate the effectiveness of various dewormers. The initial fecal samples yielded low worm egg counts (a measure of worm infestation) and our herd did not qualify for the dewormer study i.e. the worm egg count was too low to participate in the study. In case you are wondering, this is a good thing :). Your County Extension agent is a great source if you are looking for some very local advise on this topic. You’ll also learn that there are no new dewormers slated to be introduced to the market. Most dewormers are used ‘off-label’ for goats with veterinarian advice. This makes raising goats both a challenge and a reward, if you manage it well. Breeding: The does are bred for the first time when they are about 18 months old so they kid when they are about 2 years old. After that, they kid only once a year giving them time to recover from kidding and raising kids which makes them able to fight disease on their own. For comparison, with 5 month gestation period for goats, most commercial breeders breed their does at 9 months age and at least 3 times every two years, if not twice in a year. This has a great deal of effect on the goat’s overall health. Couple of years ago, we sent 4 does to the auction. They were in the 8-10 year age range. They sold for $250 each to a regular buyer at the auction. The next day we saw them listed on Craigslist as 4 year olds for $300 and a day later they were sold. These goats had very characteristic markings, so from the pictures we could tell they were our goats. This shows the difference between carefully managed herd and a commercial herd. Raising Kids: The kids are raised by their mother, except in the rare instance where the mother is not able to raise them. The kids stay with their mothers for about 4 months, except if the mother loses body condition and is not able to keep up with the milk demand from bigger kids. Our Herds: All our does are born on our farm, except for the breeding bucks who have come from local farms that share our goat raising approach. So our heard is mostly a closed herd. We now have 3 herds, each with its own billy/buck. We’ll start a new herd next year. The doe kids from the first herd go the second herd and the doe kids from the second herd go to the third herd, so baring a farm accident, none of the does are ever related to their herd Sire. The buck for the first herd has been with us for almost 7 years and has done well. The second buck has been with us for 2 years. We acquired our junior buck last year to introduce Spanish bloodlines. Unlike some farms, that continue in-breeding for certain traits, we have genetic diversity to the extent, without our knowledge, the bucks all don’t trace their lineage to the same farm and/or gene pool. Characteristics: Our goats are provided shelter during rain and severe weather and kid in the open. There are no kidding pens here. This is very hardy stock. All our goats have nice horns characteristic of Kikos, we don’t disbud them. Please google the medical reasons for why goats have horns if you are interested. Horns also make it easy to handle them in an emergency. Besides, that is their only 2nd Amendment protection in case a coyote or a dog were to get inside the fence – ask Violet our Great Pyrenees who once got in the wrong pen. The goats come to the feed tray, are friendly once they know you, but aren't overly friendly so won’t come and head butt you. Breed: We started with a pure Nubian brown dappled buck, Kiko and Kiko/Boer does and now have all Kiko and Kiko/Spanish bucks. Because of some Nubian(milk) in their genetics, most does are able to raise twins and triplets without bottle feeding the kids. The Kiko genetics provide worm resistance and the little Boer we have provides for muscle/meat. With the last 4 bucks being Kiko, and the latest one being Spanish, our goats are mostly high percentage Kiko or Kiko/Spanish. We have a few older does that are 25% Nubian and 2 that are 25% Boer. We keep birth records and know the pedigree of each goat. Size: The does are in the 100-150 lb. range and the Bucks in the 150-200 lb. range. As the Boer and Nubian influence diminishes, the size diminishes too, but still these are fairly large sized goats. Color: On the subject of color, we raise goats for hardiness. Two of our current bucks are white and the third one is dark brown. In the past, we did have a couple who were colored. Though we have a few colored goats, ours is mostly a White Goat Farm. We have not been able to make any correlation between goat color and hardiness and the commercial buyers don’t seem to care. In fact, without much scientific research, the white goats seem to be hardier. That might explain why we have so many that are white. Most of the colored ones are in big demand, so price will reflect that, but please Hurry! if that is what you are after. I hope you consider raising goats and join us in this adventure. Not to mention, goats are very curious and interesting creatures. We don’t watch TV because our goats provide us round the clock live entertainment – especially the kids. Thank You! Goat,Goats,Buck,Bucks,Buckling,Bucklings,Billy,Billies,Doe,Does,Kid,Kids,Kiko,Spanish,Boer