Kinders for sale
Contact us if you would like to put your name on a waiting list for Kinder kids. Along with your request (how many does? how many bucks? for homesteading purposes? for breeding and selling top-quality animals?), let us know where you are in the process of getting ready for your Kinder kids, using the checklist below. Second, please stay in touch at least once a year to let us know that your request is still active. If we don't hear from you periodically, we'll assume that you must have found your Kinders from another breeder.
If you are looking for Kinders for sale before we are likely to have them, check the Kinder Classifieds on Facebook and see the kindergoatbreeders.com breeders page to help you locate other Kinder breeders in the Southeast and across the U.S.
Our herd is negative for CAE, CL, and Johne's Disease and is tested regularly.
Our kids are dam-raised and stay here on the farm until they are around 12 weeks old. We disbud all our kids before they are two weeks old because it is easier to find good homes for them if they are disbudded (and that applies to resales when they are adults) and because they will be safer from injuries. We don't encourage herds with a mix of horned and disbudded goats, as the horned goats have a bullying advantage and may injure the others. We know that there are mixed herds where everyone gets along — so much depends on the personalities of individual goats.
If you are looking for kids, we prefer to send them to their new homes in pairs if they will not have age-mate buddies to join when they arrive. When we sell adult does, we prefer to sell them with a herd buddy or with a daughter. Everyone has an easier transition this way. We will sell an individual buck, but he will need to have a new buddy waiting for him at your farm. Please be aware that bucks and does must be housed separately. If you are starting with doelings, you can tackle creating your doe space first and wait to add your bucks (an unrelated pair?) the next year. Those doelings need time to grow up before you can breed them, so you can shop for bucks (or a buck and wether) the following year.
We sell our Kinders to approved homes only. If you have never owned goats before, we will gladly help you to learn what you need to do to prepare for them before you bring them home and to care for them properly once they have arrived. We strive to ensure that our Kinders are a good match for you and you are a good match for them and well-equipped to give them a great home and good care. Keeping goats is no small (or cheap) undertaking, but the rewards are immense. To help you get started, here is a checklist to help you get ready to bring your first Kinders home.
Get Ready for Your Kinders: A Checklist
If you are looking for Kinders for sale before we are likely to have them, check the Kinder Classifieds on Facebook and see the kindergoatbreeders.com breeders page to help you locate other Kinder breeders in the Southeast and across the U.S.
Our herd is negative for CAE, CL, and Johne's Disease and is tested regularly.
Our kids are dam-raised and stay here on the farm until they are around 12 weeks old. We disbud all our kids before they are two weeks old because it is easier to find good homes for them if they are disbudded (and that applies to resales when they are adults) and because they will be safer from injuries. We don't encourage herds with a mix of horned and disbudded goats, as the horned goats have a bullying advantage and may injure the others. We know that there are mixed herds where everyone gets along — so much depends on the personalities of individual goats.
If you are looking for kids, we prefer to send them to their new homes in pairs if they will not have age-mate buddies to join when they arrive. When we sell adult does, we prefer to sell them with a herd buddy or with a daughter. Everyone has an easier transition this way. We will sell an individual buck, but he will need to have a new buddy waiting for him at your farm. Please be aware that bucks and does must be housed separately. If you are starting with doelings, you can tackle creating your doe space first and wait to add your bucks (an unrelated pair?) the next year. Those doelings need time to grow up before you can breed them, so you can shop for bucks (or a buck and wether) the following year.
We sell our Kinders to approved homes only. If you have never owned goats before, we will gladly help you to learn what you need to do to prepare for them before you bring them home and to care for them properly once they have arrived. We strive to ensure that our Kinders are a good match for you and you are a good match for them and well-equipped to give them a great home and good care. Keeping goats is no small (or cheap) undertaking, but the rewards are immense. To help you get started, here is a checklist to help you get ready to bring your first Kinders home.
Get Ready for Your Kinders: A Checklist
- Learn about the importance of biosecurity and of buying your goats from a tested, healthy herd. Make sure the herd you buy from has been tested for CAE, CL, and Johne’s Disease and ask for a copy of the test results.
- Research facility design and create facilities designed to accommodate your goats comfortably in your climate, to protect them from predators, to store their feed securely, and to make managing their care easier. Consider designing shelter with enough space so that goats won’t be cramped when it’s raining for days. Factor in space for storing hay and feed. If you anticipate having more than a couple of goats, consider designing so that you can feed over a barrier without having to wade through eager, hungry goats to get to a feeder. Design your facility for easy access for stall cleaning.
- Find area vets who treat goats and find out whether they make farm calls and how emergencies are handled. Ask area goat owners whom they recommend.
- Find area sources of high quality feed, hay (ideally alfalfa or an alfalfa mix), goat-specific loose minerals such as Manna Pro Goat Minerals or (better yet) Sweetlix Meatmaker Goat Minerals, and Chaffhaye.
- Put together a goat care kit to handle common medical issues and general care.
- Learn about Kinders and Kinder goat conformation. Read from a growing library of articles at http://www.kindergoatbreeders.com/articleindex.html. Consider joining the Kinder Goat Breeders Association so that you can begin receiving the Kinder Quarterly.
- Read about goat care. Here are recommended resources for getting started:
- Books (Buy and read one or two of your choice.)
Raising Goats Naturally: The Complete Guide to Milk, Meat, and More, by Deborah Niemann (There is now a second edition out.)
Natural Goat Care, by Pat Coleby
Storey’s Guide to Raising Dairy Goats, by Jerry Belanger & Sara Thomson Bredesen
How to Raise Goats: Everything You Need to Know, by Carol Amundson (Agricultural FFA Education) - Here is a helpful list of goat supplies at Better Hens and Gardens: http://www.betterhensandgardens.com/goat-starter-list/
- Web (These websites have a treasure trove of information for beginning and experienced goatkeepers!)
www.fiascofarm.com
www.tennesseemeatgoats.com/articles2/articlesMain.html
http://www2.luresext.edu/goats/training/qa.html
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