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2012 Kidding Season

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Goat Sales

Prices and Policies

We offer fine Nubian Kids and Goats for sale from time to time.  All of our Nubians are purebred and can be sold registered.

Goat Sales Prices

Registered Does and Bucks $400 and up

 Doe Kids and Buck Kids with Registration Application $300 and up

(10% Discount on purchases of 5 or more kids from this category)

Unregistered Bucks $200 and up

 Wethers $100 and up

Goat Sales Policies

Prices for reserved kids are for kids picked up by 3 weeks of age. After 3 weeks of age reserved kids will incur an additional $5.00 per day boarding charge.  This is due to the cost of feeding the kids our pure fresh goat milk (instead of us being able to make cheese from the milk).

We require a $50 deposit per kid ordered with the balance due within 10 days after notification of birth. If payment is not received within that time the buyer will forfeit their deposit money.

Deposits are refunded if your choice of kid is not born or if the kid is not up to our standards of quality. Deposits will not be refunded on cancelled orders. We will honor all reservations for kids to the best of our ability, however we do reserve the right to retain any kid as a replacement in our breeding program.

All goats are guaranteed free of CAE, CL, Brucellosis, TB, Mycoplasma, and are G6S Normal.  All of our kids are sold disbudded.  Any kids purchased as wethers will be castrated (banded) before leaving the property unless other arrangements are made and a refundable deposit given.  All sales are final.

We prefer all kids and goats to be picked up at the ranch though other arrangements can be made.  Overnight lodging and meals are available here at the ranch. Contact us for discount pricing.

Airport runs by BMR for shipping kids by air are $200 due to the 10 hour round trip required.  Buyers wanting to fly their kids are also responsible for having an appropriate shipping crate delivered to the ranch at least one week prior to ship date, and for reserving the flight (Flight Schedule must be approved by BMR first). Buyer is responsible for the cost of the flight, the crate, the health certificate, and the airport run. 

If you are interested in buying a goat, please contact us for availability (or to be put on our waiting list) by  emailing Kathryn or calling (928) 536-7759.

Sale prices, terms and conditions subject to change prior to sale confirmation.

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Kathryn's 2012 Goat Kidding Diary

Kiddings will be listed below chronologically with the most recent first.  Begin at the bottom of the page for the complete season's story.

More Early Babies 

2/12/12  As I mentioned before, we didn’t want any babies until March.  But what we want and where life ends up taking us are not always in agreement.  Today we got to meet our two new Jacob’s Pride doelings.  They are both gorgeous and should make awesome additions to our herd.  Since they are the only goat kids around right now, we suspect they will be ultra spoiled before too long.  How could we resist?

We thank Debbie, of Jacob's Pride Nubians, for allowing these lovely girls to come to our ranch.

Jacobs Pride Maximum Kisses (left), Jacobs Pride Dakota Stardancer (right)

Early Babies

1/3/12   David and I decided that we didn't want to have babies born in January or February due to the cold weather.  So we bred our goats to start kidding in March.  However, Anatolian Mattie had other plans.  Before coming to join the Black Mesa Ranch gang last November, she snuck in a "play date" with an Akbash LGD named Zeki at her breeder's place.  No one, except Mattie and Zeki, realized how seriously they were "playing".  A few weeks after Mattie arrived here I began to suspect that I had gotten more than I bargained for.  Mattie's vulva was swollen and her teats were starting to show.

Having never whelped a litter before, I did lots of research.  I learned that a dog's temperature will drop right before she whelps.  Since I didn't know the breeding date I monitored her temperature twice a day for over a month.  But on the morning of January 3rd I didn't have to check her temperature to know that today was the day.  Just like with goats about to kid, her body language spoke quite loudly.  So I went to put her in the whelping pen that we had made in the goat barn.  Mattie was used to sleeping in there so she didn't mind.  However I did notice that the ammonia level in the barn was high.  Usually when I notice the ammonia I sprinkle the bedding liberally with baking soda then put down a new deep layer of straw.  But the baking soda (which we get in 50# bags) was still on backorder.  Being worried about the new little puppy lungs that would soon be breathing this air, I asked David if he could do a blitz cleaning of the barn. 

The loafing area of our barn is about 1400 sq ft and requires the tractor to move out the feed bunks, then the loader to remove the bedding.  It is about a 5 hour job.  But David is a great guy and immediately got to work.  I raked out Mattie's whelping area and got it newly strawed and ready for her.  I wasn't too worried about her since everything I read said that dogs usually whelp at night.  OK, I was actually a bit concerned since the things I read also said to have a calm, quiet place for the dog to whelp or she might stop having contraction and need a C-section.  Well, the barn that day was FAR from calm or quiet, and while I cleaned the pen Mattie lay under the manger working on whelping her first pup.  It was 3 o'clock in the afternoon - so much for nighttime whelping!  As soon as I let Mattie back into her newly cleaned pen, even though the tractor was still making runs back and forth in the goat area, Mattie laid down and pushed out her first puppy.  In fact, she had three pups born before we finished cleaning the barn.  This girl was one cool cucumber! 

Over the next 10 hours she whelped a total of 9 puppies.  Healthy, active, and FAT.  I'm used to goat kids that are pretty much just skin and bones when they are born, gangly and long-legged.  These pups were squiggly fat sausages!  They all weighed about 1 pound each and quickly figured out how to latch on to mama for their first meal.  Even though we had a heating pad and heat lamps set up for these crazy pups that where born in single digit temps, they didn't want anything to do with that luxury.  They crawled to the other end of the pen and let mom warm them with her body.  David even stayed out with the newborn pups all night in the freezing temperatures to be sure they were OK, but those silly pups never did want supplemental heat - other than their mom's, that is.

All the pups are doing great and Mattie seems quite pleased with herself.  These pups are from 100% livestock guardian dog stock and they are for sale.

Mattie with her newborn pups