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husband Bill and son Greg and I raise and show Toggenburg's, Lamancha's, and Experimental's. We are located in Rio Dell, CA which is about 80 miles south of the Oregon border, on Hwy 101.
We raise our babies on a CAE prevention program, and test yearly for CAE. We raise all our babies as if they are keepers. Which means we handle each baby daily, teach them each to lead, and my son sits and holds them all.
I had goats, chickens, horses, rabbits and cows as a kid, then moved on to just rabbits, and showed them for 18 years before finally cleaning my last cage in 2002. I talked my husband (city boy) into a goat in 1998, then found out that we would be moving. We bought our house in 1998, and moved all the animals and 2 goats into the new house in October.
In June of 2000, Bill fell in love with a little Toggenburg doe named Tink, at a goat show we were attending. More times than not he'd be "rescuing" her from the feeder and carrying her around. Gregery had made friends with Tink's owner's granddaughters and he helped them show at that show. We were hooked. Bill was adamant that if we were to buy a goat it had to be show quality, and Tink was not. So we came home with Tink…… and friend.
Though the goats are really Greg and my thing, Bill helps out a lot. We have a deal, Greg shows all the Juniors and Bill and I show the seniors of each of our breeds. We keep family peace that way, everyone has their own breed, and Greg gets to help everyone.
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