Raintree Dairy Goats

Calico-Acres

Calico-Fields

Calico-Lane

Welcome to Raintree Dairy Goats, home of Larry and Deb Macke and Sharla, Doug, James and Michael Nagel. Our farm is located on 200 acres in Rusk County in NW Wisconsin. Along with our goats we also have 30 head of registered Jerseys and Holsteins and we raise corn and alfalfa. Our herd consists mainly of Purebred LaManchas with just a few remaining Americans. Sharla's herd name is Calico Acres, James' is Calico-Fields, and Michael's is Calico Lane.

We have been raising dairy goats since 1985 when we started with a pair of grade Alpine kids for a 4-H project. Over the last 20 years we've been involved in all aspects of the industry including 5 years as a commercial goat dairy. Living "way up north" made it very hard to market milk and our focus since 1993 has been to develop a select herd of 20+ show quality does who are also capable of holding their own in the milk pail. We show at several shows each year, HES yearly and are on supervised AM-PM milk test. We've come a long way and we're very proud of our herd but we still continually strive for improvement.

Come join us for a visit to Raintree Dairy Goats and let us know if you see something you like.