Welcome to Lazy Dae Ranch!
We raise Kiko and Kiko X meat goats and a couple of LaMancha milk goats.
Our goal is to produce low maintenance, commercial meat goats, with good mothering, and body!
Summer 2014
We have about 30 does and 15 first timers to kid this coming year and they are all going to be bred to Prince our New Zealand kiko buck we purchased from Da'Did Farms in Washington. They have good quality goats and we enjoyed our visit with them. ( Thank you Da'Did Farms) We also added some chickens to our ranch this year and we are looking forward to getting eggs from them soon. :)
Summer 2013
We have had our little ranch for over three years now but there is still a lot of fencing and buildings to go up. (There will always be work to be done and
improvements to be made!) :)
In the Summer of 2013 we have grown to 42 head of Does and
Doelings. I am constantly trying to improve my goats. So I am
adding more meat to our kikos by breeding in some boer and I will hopefully be getting a new Kiko Buck next year. I will breed back and forth between the kiko and boer for a goat that will hopefully give me the wonderful traits of the Kiko while giving my goats body as well.
I would like to give you a little history on how this all got started.
As a young child I never thought I would be a goat rancher. I had dreams of a horse ranch or maybe being a jockey and riding magnificent race horses.
As a child my best friends mom had a milk goat.
I would visit and we all would sit down for lunch. My best friends mom, bless her heart, would set what seemed like a gigantic glass of goats milk in front of us with lunch.
We would all make faces at each other, plug our noses and see who could drink the milk fastest. It was nasty tasting stuff!!
I thought, there is no way I’ll ever have a goat. Not only does the milk taste nasty, they stink!
Time marches on.
I got married and we started a family. We decided we needed milk for the baby but my husband is lacto intolerant and cows weren’t an option. I did some research and found that not only is goats milk good for babies, but people with lacto intolerants can drink it as well.
GOATS? You’ve got to be kidding me! They eat every thing don’t they!!
Well as I found out later down the road, they don’t eat every thing, but they will try just about anything at least once or maybe twice (Including boot laces and paint). J
Well, any way, we decided we would try goats.
I wanted a doe that was a first time freshener to lessen our chances of off tasting milk.
I researched several milk breeds, and after going and looking at some goats on one of the coldest days that year, I settled on the LaMancha for its heartiness and milk quality.
I intended to get one doe, and considered maybe a buck. I came home with a doe, her doeling, and a buck. I wanted to take them all home with me because they were soooo.. cute!!
As every thing in my life seems to go, I get the cart before the horse, or in this case, the goat before the fence. So we had to throw up a quick temporary fence and shelter. The goats did not smell, and the milk was wonderful. My husband could drink all he wanted with no problems, and our beautiful baby did well on it also (after being weaned off breast milkJ). How wonderful!!
I liked the goats and enjoyed doing chores.
We ended up moving that next fall and when my doe dried off boy did I miss having that milk.
Store bought and powdered milk does not taste so good after having fresh homegrown milk.
Well, my does were bred and being so anxious to see those kids I was checking on my does sometimes twice a day or more and reading up on all to do. Now it was getting close to kidding time, and I was probably checking on her too much, but I was excited. I had just checked on her and came in to do some house work and about two hours later I found two beautiful bucklings on their feet, nursing and half cleaned off.
I was so excited!!
I called my husband right away to tell him the news. Later that spring my other doe kidded one buckling and I was there for the whole labor and thought it was just great.
I had no problems, and thoroughly enjoyed selling the kids and the young doe (who was still sucking her mom even though she had a kid of her own).
I wanted to raise more goats, but we needed to go about it in a practical way.
My plan was to get at lest one more milker to replace the one I had to sell, and maybe get some kind of a meat goat. Now I knew nothing of meat goats so it was back to researching.
When I discovered the Kiko and all its wonderful qualities I thought this is the goat for me. Now to find some! The nearest kikos I could find were at Half Creek Farm and they were 251 miles away. They had a buck I just fell in love with, and my husband decided meat goats were a good idea and that we could go ahead with it. Yeah!! I thought, I’ll just get five does and a buck to start, and that will be good, “RIGHT”! Well, when it was all said and done I ended up getting one buck and eight does from Half Creek Farm, a boer buck, and one more LaMancha doeling for a total of one dozen goats including my original LaMancha doe.
Now in the Summer of 2013 we have grown to 42 head of Does and Doelings.
I am constantly trying to improve my goats. So I am adding more meat to our kikos by breeding in some boer and I will hopefully be getting a new Kiko Buck next year. I will breed back and forth between the kiko and boer for a goat that will hopefully give me the wonderful traits of the Kiko while giving my goats body as well.
Our goal is to produce low maintenance, commercial meat goats, with good mothering, and body!
Thank you for visiting!
God Bless You All,
The Lazy Dae Ranch : )
Our goal is to produce low maintenance, commercial meat goats, with good mothering, and body!
Summer 2014
We have about 30 does and 15 first timers to kid this coming year and they are all going to be bred to Prince our New Zealand kiko buck we purchased from Da'Did Farms in Washington. They have good quality goats and we enjoyed our visit with them. ( Thank you Da'Did Farms) We also added some chickens to our ranch this year and we are looking forward to getting eggs from them soon. :)
Summer 2013
We have had our little ranch for over three years now but there is still a lot of fencing and buildings to go up. (There will always be work to be done and
improvements to be made!) :)
In the Summer of 2013 we have grown to 42 head of Does and
Doelings. I am constantly trying to improve my goats. So I am
adding more meat to our kikos by breeding in some boer and I will hopefully be getting a new Kiko Buck next year. I will breed back and forth between the kiko and boer for a goat that will hopefully give me the wonderful traits of the Kiko while giving my goats body as well.
I would like to give you a little history on how this all got started.
As a young child I never thought I would be a goat rancher. I had dreams of a horse ranch or maybe being a jockey and riding magnificent race horses.
As a child my best friends mom had a milk goat.
I would visit and we all would sit down for lunch. My best friends mom, bless her heart, would set what seemed like a gigantic glass of goats milk in front of us with lunch.
We would all make faces at each other, plug our noses and see who could drink the milk fastest. It was nasty tasting stuff!!
I thought, there is no way I’ll ever have a goat. Not only does the milk taste nasty, they stink!
Time marches on.
I got married and we started a family. We decided we needed milk for the baby but my husband is lacto intolerant and cows weren’t an option. I did some research and found that not only is goats milk good for babies, but people with lacto intolerants can drink it as well.
GOATS? You’ve got to be kidding me! They eat every thing don’t they!!
Well as I found out later down the road, they don’t eat every thing, but they will try just about anything at least once or maybe twice (Including boot laces and paint). J
Well, any way, we decided we would try goats.
I wanted a doe that was a first time freshener to lessen our chances of off tasting milk.
I researched several milk breeds, and after going and looking at some goats on one of the coldest days that year, I settled on the LaMancha for its heartiness and milk quality.
I intended to get one doe, and considered maybe a buck. I came home with a doe, her doeling, and a buck. I wanted to take them all home with me because they were soooo.. cute!!
As every thing in my life seems to go, I get the cart before the horse, or in this case, the goat before the fence. So we had to throw up a quick temporary fence and shelter. The goats did not smell, and the milk was wonderful. My husband could drink all he wanted with no problems, and our beautiful baby did well on it also (after being weaned off breast milkJ). How wonderful!!
I liked the goats and enjoyed doing chores.
We ended up moving that next fall and when my doe dried off boy did I miss having that milk.
Store bought and powdered milk does not taste so good after having fresh homegrown milk.
Well, my does were bred and being so anxious to see those kids I was checking on my does sometimes twice a day or more and reading up on all to do. Now it was getting close to kidding time, and I was probably checking on her too much, but I was excited. I had just checked on her and came in to do some house work and about two hours later I found two beautiful bucklings on their feet, nursing and half cleaned off.
I was so excited!!
I called my husband right away to tell him the news. Later that spring my other doe kidded one buckling and I was there for the whole labor and thought it was just great.
I had no problems, and thoroughly enjoyed selling the kids and the young doe (who was still sucking her mom even though she had a kid of her own).
I wanted to raise more goats, but we needed to go about it in a practical way.
My plan was to get at lest one more milker to replace the one I had to sell, and maybe get some kind of a meat goat. Now I knew nothing of meat goats so it was back to researching.
When I discovered the Kiko and all its wonderful qualities I thought this is the goat for me. Now to find some! The nearest kikos I could find were at Half Creek Farm and they were 251 miles away. They had a buck I just fell in love with, and my husband decided meat goats were a good idea and that we could go ahead with it. Yeah!! I thought, I’ll just get five does and a buck to start, and that will be good, “RIGHT”! Well, when it was all said and done I ended up getting one buck and eight does from Half Creek Farm, a boer buck, and one more LaMancha doeling for a total of one dozen goats including my original LaMancha doe.
Now in the Summer of 2013 we have grown to 42 head of Does and Doelings.
I am constantly trying to improve my goats. So I am adding more meat to our kikos by breeding in some boer and I will hopefully be getting a new Kiko Buck next year. I will breed back and forth between the kiko and boer for a goat that will hopefully give me the wonderful traits of the Kiko while giving my goats body as well.
Our goal is to produce low maintenance, commercial meat goats, with good mothering, and body!
Thank you for visiting!
God Bless You All,
The Lazy Dae Ranch : )
