Dixie Rock Ranch is a member of the International
Fainting Goat Association, Myotonic Goat Registry and American Livestock
Breed Conservancy. We strive to keep a clean, healthy farm and maintain
a happy herd of about 20 registered fainting goats.
What is a fainting goat?? Please click on the following links
for more information on this unique breed:
http://www.faintinggoat.com/index.php?
option=com_content&view=article&id=2&Itemid=2
http://www.albc-usa.org/cpl/tenngoat.html
http://www.myotonicgoatregistry.net/MGRbreeddescr
iption/MGRBreeddescription.html
Dixie Rock Ranch has relocated! We've moved to a 20 acre spread
just down the road and are on our way to establishing a new home
and ranch. Water has been dug into the pasture, a barn will be
built later this fall and paddocks are in the process of being
built. Plans are to have the goats participate in a rotational
grazing program set up through the Natural Resources Conservation
Service. For the time being, we have built the girls a temporary
shelter out of cattle panels, 2x6s and a tarp. It has withstood
winds up to 80mph.
2007 fall breeding plans were postponed until after the 2008
New Year due to the move. While the "human family" wintered at
the new place, the "goat family" spent one more snowy season in
the old red barn about a quarter of a mile away. The first kids
of the year didn't arrive until May followed by a few more in
June. As always, I've bred a couple does for fall kidding. Their
kids will be weaned just in time for Christmas. The girls will
be rebred around Thanksgiving after a good flushing in hopes of
increasing our number of multiple births. 2009 kids should show
up sometime in April.
Please see our "For Sale" page if you are interested in purchasing
your own Fainting Goat from Dixie Rock Ranch. A $50 non-refundable
deposit is required to hold a kid and mark its status "Sale Pending."
However, should an unforeseen circumstance occur to the kid prior
to pickup, the deposit will be refunded or applied to another
available kid of your choosing. A $100 non-refundable deposit
is required to hold an adult goat. Deposits need to be received
within 7 business days of a verbal or written (email) sales agreement.
If not received within that timeframe, the goat will be put back
to "For Sale" status. Balances due at pickup or delivery will
need to be paid in cash.
All kids will receive their first CD&T vaccination at 4 weeks
of age. They will receive their CD&T booster and registration
tattoos at 8 weeks of age. All required paperwork for registration
with the IFGA and/or MGR will accompany the goat. Health certificates
are available at the Seller's expense.
Our most recent herd health tests were ran in August, 2008.
Samples were submitted to WADDL on all goats 18 months & older
at DRR. All bucks and "mother" goats were tested for CAE. Retained
"daughters" were not tested for CAE as it is a colostrum transferable
disease. All goats were tested for CL and Johne's disease. We're
please to say all goats of age currently at DRR showed a negative
status for all 3 diseases! Click here for results.
Kids will be weaned at 8 weeks of age and will be available
for pickup at 10 weeks of age. We reserve the right to hold a
kid until 12 weeks of age if it is smaller or is having trouble
transitioning to hay and grain.
A lonely goat will get in trouble!! For that, we offer companionship
discounts!! Goats are a herd animal and prefer to be with other
goats. (In our experience, they also faint more easily when in
the company of another goat.) We like to see buyers buy two goats
or have other goats, sheep, miniature horses, etc. at home. Wethers,
castrated bucks, make excellent pets and are perfect companions
to bucks or does. Once castrated, wethers will never smell or
act like a buck and I personally think they are better behaved
than a doe!! The majority of the goats that leave Dixie Rock Ranch
are wethers.
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The goats at Dixie Rock Ranch are well socialized with other
animals and people. We have 6 horses, a pony, a border collie/blue
heeler cross named Jodi and a handful of kitties. My daughters
and I spend a lot of time in the goat pen and especially enjoy
kidding season. We have a lot of guests out to the farm and have
visited the area daycares and school. In August, 2008, the girls
won "Most Unique Animal" honors at a local pet show.
We have horned and polled (naturally hornless) bloodlines in the
herd. I occasionally disbud (remove the horns) but this must be
done within a few days of birth to be effective. I prefer to leave
my goats horned as they "sweat" through their horns and use them
as a defense mechanism against attack from wild animals. They
also make good handles! Because our goats are well socialized,
they do not use their horns in an aggressive way towards me or
my children.
We also have some blue eye bloodlines in the herd as well as
a couple skirted goats. Refer to the pictures of Way To Me Eve
and Buckaroo Bluff's Apache for examples of skirted goats. These
traits are all personal preference. You'll just have to let us
know if you're looking for something specific!
Our most recent addition to the farm came from Genesis Acres
Exotics. His name is Pilot and he'll be our herd sire for the
next couple of years. We're hoping by the time he's 6 months old,
we'll be able to register him with the Mini Silky Fainting Goat
Association. Mini Silky goats are smaller in size, with long silky
coats over their entire body in addition to bangs much like that
of a terrier dog. Pilot also possesses the blue eyed gene. You
can see him on the Buck Page.
We really love our goats at Dixie Rock Ranch. If you have any
questions or would just like to talk "goat", please feel free
to contact us.
