We did get our goats tested-four of them. Kendra and Lady came up positive, and Pedro and Patchy were negative. We decided that after Kendra and Lady kidded, they would be put down, so they wouldn't spread the disease to other goats. It was a hard decision, but I have never once regretted that decision. In March, babies started arriving at Beauty-Mountain Farm, and we, of course, went up to see them. I got an American Alpine doe kid that I named Dancer. I got Dancer when she was around 3 weeks old, and I think she is the most spoiled goat to ever live on this farm! I learned a lot about goats from Mona, and am still learning! I still have Dancer, as mentioned on my main page.
Lady kidded on May 21, 1995 with twins- a buck and a doe.
Here is a picture of Lady's kids. May-May, the doe kid, is the white one and the otherkid, the brown one, is Willy. Kendra kidded on May 25 with twin does-named Hannalee and Roslyn, Hannah and Rosy for short. We raised Hanna, Rosy, Willy, and May-May on a CAE prevention program, and of course, kept them separate from their mothers. We had Lady and Kendra butchered and sold Pedro and Patchy. But now we had lots of baby goats to play with (my mom had bought some wethers that we were going to raise for meat) which we had a lot of fun.
Now I have a herd of seven goats, 5 Alpines, a Pygmy, and her kid. The Alpines CAE and Johne's negative (haven't yet tested the Pygmy for CAE, she did test negative for Johne's though), none of the goats have ever had abscesses and they are vaccinated and wormed regularly. The rest of my page(s) are about the goats I have now, so I won't go into a story with them. I hope you enjoyed reading how I got into goats.
