Location:
Central Arkansas
Butlerville is on the map, but our Post Office is located in Ward, our phone service is out of Cabot. We are truly out in the country! Butlerville is South of Beebe, and North of Lonoke.
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Purpose
* To provide for my home milk supply and milk for use in making cheese, butter, ice cream and goat milk soap.
* To provide the highest quality raw milk for on farm milk sales as permitted by the state of Arkansas.
* To produce goat milk soap, also sold by this farm.
* Sale of registered breeding stock.
Health
* I maintain a closed herd with the exception of occasional bottle kids brought in and raised in separate kid pens until breeding age. My goats do not go to shows, or any other place that they would be in contact with other livestock. This eliminates exposure to anything infectious or contagious, and helps me to maintain a healthier herd.
* The health of each individual in the herd is very important to me. Diseases such as CAE and CL have never been diagnosed in any goat on this farm, and any suspicious symptoms have been checked out by my vet and blood samples tested promptly, fortunately with consistently negative results.
* All kids are raised on strict CAE prevention just in case this virus tries to sneak in.
* Another health concern targeting Nubian goats is the genetic defect G-6-S. Please see my article on the G6S Page.
Achievements
INBA Extended Lactation Awards 2007
Calm & Gentle Daisy’s Marigold - Extended lactation of 945 days in milk, producing 4,388 lbs. of milk
The DCRT Pearl - Extended lactation of 867 days in milk, producing 3,652 lbs. of milk
Calm & Gentle APR Lily - Extended lactation of 859 days in milk, producing 3,158 lbs. of milk
Calm & Gentle Rose’s Daisy - Extended lactation of 602 days in milk, producing 3,476 lbs. of milk. This doe produced 2,027 lbs. of milk in the first 305 days of this lactation.What's New
10/31/09 - Details of the Buck Kid Sale have been posted on the Goats For Sale page.
Milk production has dropped due to seasonal changes, and some of the does have been dried off and are now bred to the bucks of my choice. Seven does are milking through on an extended lactation this winter.
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