Far View Hills Boer Goats: January 2008

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official FVH Boer Goats Blog!

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We are a small scale farm in Ohio. Each year we kid anywhere from 10-15 high percentage boer does. We kid in mid to late March (and also kid in February for some buyers).

We sell to 4-Hers, private breeders and people just looking for a pet, companion animal or brush clearer. Our goats are extremely friendly and easy to handle. One of our yearly 4-H buyers once commented, "Half the battle is already won when you open the back of the truck and the kids don't run away from you." We've been told by numerous buyers that our kids are some of the friendliest around. Aside from that trait our kids do well in the show ring. They are well muscled and have good conformation. Our goats have placed as grand champions as well as first, second and third places at county fairs around us. In 2007 a wether born and bred on our farm was shown at the Ohio State Fair where he placed in the top five of his weight class.

Wethers
All of our buck kids are dehorned when/before they are a week old. They are then banded at two months old. We have found that wether kids have better rate of growth when left intact for this amount of time.

Does

Doe kids will be dehorned if a deposit is put on them before they are a week old and it is specified that you would like them dehorned.

Health

All goats that we sell are up-to-date on CD/T vaccinations, are dewormed and in excellent health.

Contact

miss_n_arrow@ yahoo.com

740.814.3768

In the case that you contact us and all our kids are sold you may still set up a time to come see this year's kid crop and decide if you would like to put a deposit down on a 2015 kid.

Note: All photos on this website are of our goat herd. All of the photos of goat kids are kids born and bred on our farm. Our goats are high percentage Boers (96% and above), but they are not registered. Our two bucks are fullblood Boers.

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1/18/08

Fair Time 2006

We have so much fun being able to watch 4-Hers show goats raised on our farm. It is always a thrill to watch one of our wether's strut around the ring, catch the judge's attention and come away with a ribbon.

It's usually hard for the 4-Her to sell their goat at the end of fair week. A 4-Her's grandfather related the following story to me. The goat pictured to the left, "George" was loaded onto the truck for re-sale and saw the boy that showed him walk by. He was amidst a lot of other goats in the truck, but he wasn't paying attention to them... He yelled out when he saw his boy and it about made the boy's grandfather's heart break. Our goats are so very friendly and readily bond to anyone willing to spend time with them.