Hi from Dixie Rock Ranch! Our first Fainting
goat, Dixie, came to live with us in
the summer of 2005. Being the only goat on the place, Dixie waited patiently
on
the front deck each day for us to get home. Once things cooled off in
the evenings,
her pent up energy would send her racing around the house like a crazed
puppy
dog. Her favorite thing to do was jump up and off a large rock in our
yard.
Usually getting stiff-legged, but sometimes fully fainting, she would
do this stunt over
and over until eventually giving up and retiring to the barn for the night.
However,
by the end of that summer, Dixie matured and became too big and too easily
fainted to get up the stairs of the deck, much less up on her favorite
rock. When
the time came to register a herd name, it was my husband who deemed our
place “Dixie Rock Ranch” after this
wonderfully entertaining caprine and her favorite pastime.
Two years later, our barn now harbors 12 Fainters and 5 Nigerian Dwarf
goats. For information on these two unique
breeds, please click on the links below. You can also call or email
me anytime to talk goats!!
http://www.faintinggoat.com/breedinfo.html
http://www.myotonicgoatregistry.com/MGRbreeddescription/MGRBreeddescription.html
http://www.ndga.org/about/aboutnd.htm
Dixie Rock Ranch is a member of the International Fainting Goat Association,
Myotonic Goat Registry, American Goat
Society and Nigerian Dwarf Goat Association. All kids will be sold with
the appropriate paperwork so they can be
registered with the organization(s) of their buyer’s choosing.
Prior to leaving the farm, kids will also be wormed and
receive a CD&T vaccination, which prevents overeating and tetanus.
Please refer to the “For Sale” page to see what
we currently have available. The herd is set to kid again during the
last week of June, 2007. Below is a listing of the
breeding pairs. Information on the bucks and does can be found on their
respective pages.
