Color does not factor into breeding choices at all, so the herd shows a great variety ofcolors, and there are varying levels of cashmere. Joe Preston also did an annual buck test toensure that he was retaining the best meat billies possible to continue the genetics of his herd. His dogs (with help from the donkeys) deter and fend off coyotes, foxes, wild hogs, and they also watch for eagles. Despite a nannys conformation, she is no good without a live kid. Eagles pose another problem. by Diane Kull Crunch a triplet male from Sky Some are spotted. And he had learned from the American Livestock Breeds Conservancy that Spanish goats had been assigned as a conservation priority. The conservation effort to conserve the Spanish breed genetics began in 2007. Some of the Baylis goats were sold by Rob Baylis to conservation breeders. We currently have around 15 bucklings available for sale. The does have tight udders, avoiding scratches and scrapes that prevent kids from nursing. Every legal means is used from the ground to the air.In early 2014 Bill Stallworth sold all of the livestock and leased the ranch to Michael Kissire. He sought to breed goats with good coats, and more hair. Ewes of all ages available as well. Spanish Goat Conservationists have been working together for over fifteen years to find and track Spanish Goat genetics. He was bred to a herd of Spanish goats brought to Muddy Run in 1996 from a doctor who was retiring in southwest Virginia. They were moderately-sized, and were stocky and with classic Spanish heads and ears. uncle and continued his commitment to the Sawyer Bloodline. Meat is considered tasty and juicy. Their origins are in the Shenandoah valley. Browse the listings below for animals, products and services for sale. Their forage included Shin Oak, Spanish Oak, and a lot of low, leafy brush. improve the Sawyer genetics with their styles. Plenty of kids on the ground Goats Need Quick Attention When your goat is sick, every moment counts. In the spring, we collect eggs from our breeding stock. As calving time coincides with kidding time, the cattle offer protection for the entire birthing herd. Their hooves were in great shape and their overall health was excellent. Named after The Allison Ranch Family, Rocksprings, TexasAllison Ranch goats have been operated as a closed herd since 1960. When you are looking to purchase a particular bloodline make sure that the breeder is in fact breeding that particular line true; ask specific questions of breeders if you want specific goats and/or results. Then all the does are put back together, with only a single cleanup buck, for another week Does are exposed to kid in the late Spring (May/June) so that the slaughter kids can be sold in the late Fall/Winter, when prices for milk tooth kids are highest. Being that they are aggressive grazers and browsers, they are a welcomed benefit to our pastures. About - Highland Goats We have a foundation herd we are proud to own and raise. The Fullblood Spanish Goat bloodline designation is used to identify a goat as Fullblood Spanish without the need for verification of the actual bloodlines that created the goat. They are on natural forage supplemented by hay, and given occasional handfuls of corn to keep them friendly.Story by Jeanette Beranger, American Livestock Breeds Conservancy, February 2011. That initial selection has served us well, as its plain to see the variety, hardiness, and survival sense in our goat herd. Call for details. Copyright 2020 | ALL RIGHTS RESERVED | PO BOX 477, 33 Hillsboro St, Pittsboro, NC 27312, Login to your Heritage Breed Marketplace account. The Valera is a longer and taller breed with longer hair coats. The Papes have participated in many meetings with other Texan ranchers to increase government intervention in predation, but would like to see more results from the effort.The Papes believe that predation is one of the main reasons why many local ranchers are giving up goat ranching, and see this as a great threat to the preservation of Fullblood Spanish goats. In September, bucks are leased out for breeding, and in December they return home, and are left to forage. Top Quality registered stock, pricing based on quality. 2 yr Nanny and doe kid, 5 year old nanny and twin bucks, long yearling billy. Please contact Paxton Vroman at 660-815-2686 ~ pvbuildings1@gmail.com. History of Syfan herd by Tom Syfan, February 2008.Tom Syfan passed away on August 10, 2013. When the shearers came, the crew would camp out on the ranch. In recent years these became the main predators for the Lowcountry herd, and the hogs were joined by alligators and the wild cats of the region. Robert Kensing had grown up with Angora goats, which were a popular breed in Texas when mohair commanded a high price, so he had experience. He wants numbers, and has participated in goat performance tests since 1995. This in contrast to crosses with swiss dairy goats in which the ears are smaller or with Boer and Nubian in which the ears are usually larger. The environment is dry (14 inches of precipitation per year) and holds great potential for generation of wind power! The Kensing bucks weight in at 100 lbs when immature at eight months of age, and 175 lbs when full grown. At one time, when the herd had reached 1,000, Margaret Bode bottle fed 30 kids in one season. Our herd of Spanish Goats are from the bloodlines of Smoke Ridge, Valera, Syfan and Baylis. They are on the Critically Endangered List with the Livestock Conservancy with very few breeders nationwide. The rapid growth is not as rapid as other more popular turkeys, nor is the finished size. Contact for pricing. Thats what the Spanish goats were foryou needed a small animal that you could eat before the meat went bad, because in the Kensings area, farms didnt have electricity until the late 1930s. Like most Spanish goats, Muddy Run goats are disease-free, sturdy, and long-living. Early selection showed some preference to black. This herd has been isolated for at least two decades. Along the way he also began breeding for their coat quality. He did find that if the goats gorged on too many acorns, they would get sick from the toxins.Owning a feed store came in very handy. Most often Certified Spanish Goat Breeders wanting to continue DNA Registrations of their goats will select out these traits before DNA Registration. Craig and Yvonne select does for fertility and their ability to successfully bring kids to weaning weight, on forage only, in half a year. Outside the winter season, the goats are fed the mixed feed while lactating. There are two basic criteria for the Fullblood Spanish Goat designation: 1) The actual bloodline(s) of the goat are not known, and/or 2) The bloodlines are known but more than two have been used and therefore the goat is designated as Fullblood Spanish Goat. Oftentimes breeders run multiple bloodlines in their herds and this makes identification simple. Even his grandfather kept Spanish goats for the family table, and Bode loves goat meat barbecued, baked, and fried. Many of our Verified and Certified Pure Spanish Goat Breeders have other breeds of goats on their farms/ranches as well as SPANISH goats that cannot be VERIFIED due to an inability to trace/track their origins/breeder. When the goats?feed is supplemented, Kensing uses 20% protein grain cubes and shell corn. If you are looking for a conservation project that can still produce, La Flche is a worthwhile breed. Appearances can be different even within the same bloodline as a result of management and region; two herds from the same bloodline that have seed stock genetics from the same breeder may have very different looking goats as a result of the owners region and management style. I have some that I'm looking to sell. They kept most of the original does from the original herd at the farm until their death. Use this link to download a Blank Bill of Sale: BILL OF SALE. Toms will dress out around 23 lbs, with the Hens dressing out around 14 lbs. Contact us tod We keep nannies until they can no longer raise their kids. Free choice minerals are always available, and hay in the winter is offered. To browse more animals and products for sale, visit the online directory. And the Spanish goats could just take care of themselves. Mr. Stallworth passed away in late 2014. The Bloodlines are listed as a named bloodline, 50% of a named bloodline, or as Fullblood Spanish Goat. These bloodlines bring outstanding qualities: hardiness, ruggedness, and the ability to thrive in difficult environments. If a doe has twins or triplets, she usually wont kid out the following year. Valera is a relatively tall-standing meat goat, with big rounded shoulders and shorter, upright ears. Had single ram lamb this year. After 2 years, the Syfan billies were sold. Smoke Ridge feeds no grain or concentrates. This means the nannies had to have only two sound teats, with good utter structure, kid and, raise the kids on the range, and the nannies were not culled until they lost their soundness around, ten years. The goats survive in rocky pastures on native forage and brush in pastures ranging from 640-1300 acres. However, as the President for the American Meat Goat Association, Shurley is able to stay well-informed on the studies and trends of meat goats in the United States. They find that such horns correlate with depth and volume of body.The billies grow to be 230-250 lbs if their diets meet their nutritional requirements, but average under 200 lbs. Good goat mothers are rewarded with a strong clan and allies. When that enterprise was abandoned, coastal grasses, brush, and trees grew up on the island. The heavy, cashmere helps keep these goats in good body condition during the winter months. Bode only bred once per year, and would not begin breeding the does until they were yearlings.Bode did not have a predator problem. The BOS is required to become a listed breeder and to Verify and DNA Register goats. *. This heritage bird is well worth the wait. We leave very few bulls intact so you know they're good. Those were the days when Spanish goats were used as brush goats, and goat meat was just a by-product. "Cornelius", unregistered twin of Chester, available for crossbreeding for your fiber flock. Three Syfan billies were purchased through Mackey Lange, Ranch Manager for Tom Syfan. The goats love the grain cubes, and the rustle of a feed bag will bring them running to their owners, showing them to be a pretty tame bunch. The Spanish goat is a landrace and varies in appearance. Named after Elgin and Shirley Pape, Harper, TexasShirley Pape was raised in Texas on a ranch that had bred sheep and Angora goats since the 1920s, with Spanish meat goats kept separate from the Angoras. Unique looking with their 'V' shaped comb, glossy black plummage and white earlobes. The Baylis are somewhat smaller and deep chested. The first off-island birth occurred shortly after they arrival to their new home in December of 2010.The captured goats are currently on a reserve in South Carolina in a conservation breeding program that is being carefully monitored by the ALBC. Available in September when their calves are weaned. Muddy Run Farm is proud of breeding a unique bloodline. The goats could forage at will, and move on as needed. Chad Hensley, Big Creek Farms: I have Pineywoods cattle that are Knapp strain. The mission is two fold: we recognize the need to clean up the gene pool, and we do not want to penalize hardworking and committed breeders who are trying to do right by the breed. Billies that remain intact are weaned at 3-4 months of age to prevent the inevitable, because aged nannies typically begin cycling 3 months post-partum. Triplets are not unusual, but if the weather is tricky during the year and forage is poor, the goats mostly have twins. Market (dressed out) weight for the Silver Appleyards go between 6 to 9 lbs. Working together with nature not only for preservation and conservation but also towards restoration. He made very few acquisitions. But Elgin and Shirley Pape did not raise goats themselves until one day, in the 1960s, their daughter returned home with eight does and a buck, all Fullblood Spanish. For Shirley Pape, who has loved goats since childhood, the losses are heartbreaking.The Papes use government trapping and control programs, including aerial shooting, to help with predators, but these methods are not completely effective. upon the fine genetics they started with. And recently, they did it again. The Kensings are fortunate in that they can manage predator problems. Valera Spanish Goats, Demorest, Georgia. That luxury no longer exists, and predation is a constant battle. They are good foragers with an active but not flighty temperament and are not aggressive with people. 2 generations from NZ Ravenswood, 3 from UK Parson's Pride, and dam line doubles to AUS Ostler's Hill Chequers. The selection process for our herd is the ability to travel long distances to water and forage, medium to large frames, good legs, no excess hair, rounded horns widely spaced, good utter size for twins but not overly large that may result in injury or the inability of kids to nurse. The Spanish goat Bloodline Foundation breeders agreed to close their herds to Fullblood Spanish genetics from that point forward if they had not done so already. Horns lacking twist can reveal swiss dairy breeding, smaller horns can reveal Boer, Nubian or Angora influences. Most of their goats are brown or dark tan with a black line down the back. That year, Bode lost 130 kids to crows.During his years as a breeder, Bode would buy, sell, and trade goats, but always kept to Fullblood Spanish. Silver Rabbits for sale, both non-pedigreed for meat production and pedigreed for show, meat production or pets. Disclosure. Registered with LLSBA. Here is what Joe Preston has to say about his herd, We seldom have a Nannie that, does not have kids. The additions were bucks. Their herd is comprised of a variety of colors, and includes slight variations in horn shapes, some curving slightly, some rising straight.The success of the Papes?Spanish herd is only marred by one thingpredators.Bobcats, mountain lions, coyotes, eagles, buzzards, and hawks have all taken their toll on the herd. Most of our sales take place at the farm. (SOLD) Pure Spanish and Kiko/Spanish Cross Bucklings August 2020. The farm house dates back to 1874 and it overlooks the banks of the Muddy Run. Their coats cover a broad rangethey sport a variety of colors and color patterns, and the guard hairs and amount of cashmere vary from goat to goat. Sired by Top Selling Sire at the 2020 Spanish Goat Gathering. Younger goats have usually one kid; but as they mature, the goats tend to have two kids. C4 Livestock israising their Sawyers in one of the most challenging environmental conditions for any breed of goatand they are adapting well. Edwin also said, We made it a point to never waverfrom our belief that the quality of our herd was paramount, that we would never sell anythingthat we wouldnt want to keep for ourselves if we could, and to constantly strive forimprovement. ensure that he was retaining the best meat billies possible to continue the genetics of his herd. Low birth weights and ease of calving. Allison Ranch Black Spanish Goats have now been raised by four generations of our family and we are appreciative of all those who have visited our ranch and purchased seed stock through the years. Rain can bring worms, and Kensing can visually assess whether or not the goats need to be dewormed, primarily by looking at the pinks around their eyes. They are at risk for about four weeks normally issues will show up within this time frame. Spanish are known for being parasite and disease resistant, promoting longevity. Goats are very intelligent; they will eat what is essential to their individual needs. Peter Schechter and Rosa Puech of Muddy Run Farm have been breeding Spanish meat goats since 1995. Call 432-296-1555 or drwassy@gmail.comPosted April 1, 2022, Grandbury, TX:SGR GOLD Certified Breeders John & Garry Boozer have three month old KENSING billy kids available. Become a Member of The Livestock Conservancy. They are fairly slow growers but fatten well producing excellent quality meat. Named after the Concharty area of Oklahoma. It is amazing to see the affection the new mothers give to their young. Peter Schechter and Rosa Puech of Muddy Run Farm have been breeding Spanish meat goats since 1995. Some areas on the island became impassable over time due to dense brush encroachment or impassable swamp.As time went on, the goats were harvested less frequently, but by then new predators were present: feral hogs. The Baylis are somewhat smaller and deep chested. Weinheimer has killed approximately 100 coyotes in the past three years. Named after Rob Baylis, Eastabutchie, MississippiRob Baylis was born in the early part of the 20th century. Tamara says they were wild and joke that they view them with binoculars. He recognizes that the problem isnt just the death-toll numbers, its the toll on selective breeding. Was a good mom. Their diet is naturalthe land offers Live Oak, Shin Oak, and many varieties of brush. $250. Silver Rabbits for sale, both non-pedigreed for meat production and pedigreed for show, meat production or pets. Peter and Rosa were interested in conserving a heritage breed. They are more vigilant during spring and autumn when the ground is very soft and muddy (hence the farm name).Peter and Rosa keep the buck in with the does year-round as they believe its easier to keep them all together and that the herd is happier. In winter the herd is provided daily with hay (from November to March) and a mixture of corn and pellets (the protein content is about 12 percent). 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