Tara's Rowdy Kids

Tara's Rowdy Kids is the home of:

'06 Open and 4-H Sandusky Co. Fair Champion Pygmy Wether

'07 Open and 4-H Grand Champion Pygmy Wethers

'08 4-H Champion Pygmy Wether and Open Class Grand Champion Doe!!

And Lorain County Fairs '08 Jr Champion Pygmy Doe!

'09 4-H Reserve Champion Pygmy Wether!

Three different wethers have brought home the title of Champions. '06 was my first year with pygmies and I was hooked!!

 And ALLof our goats have placed at our County Fair and/or National Pygmy Goat Assoc. Shows!

We take great pride in our goats and are very proud of our ribbons!! We have gotten over 30 County Fair ribbons from our goats placing!! I am just very proud of all of my accomplishments!

We have all pygmy colors, specializing in caramels! We also hope to offer brown agouties because of our newly aquired buck!  We currently have one light caramel buck, one brown agouti buck, and two brown caramel bucks. We have 4 grey agouti does, 2 black agouti does, 4 caramel does, 2 brown caramel does, and 2 brown agouti does. We also have a dark caramel wether, a light caramel wether, and a brown caramel wether with random white!

I am an active 4-H and NPGA member in Northwest Ohio and my goal is to get pygmy goats more popular than they are. I may have a small herd but there are big hopes and dreams tied up with this herd. I really hope I can make a difference. I hope I can make improvements with my herd to make improvements in pygmies all together. I strive for friendly, lovable pygmies that will make get pets and 4-H animals. I'm not in it for the money. I'm in it for the love of the animals and seeing new life and love.

I currently have a herd of 21 strong, 14 being does, 4 bucks, and 3 show wethers.

I am new to breeding pygmies but I am learning as I go along. At this time we have 4 senior does and 10 junior does. We also have four gorgeous bucks and three awesome wethers! We are currently choosing to focus on raising caramels and brown agouties in our herd but we may have grey/black agouties from time to time.

Our farm was once a meat raising farm. We had pigs and steers. I remember growing up I was ALWAYS in the barn. To this day you'll find me, in the barn! I can't cook so I stay out of the kitchen!

When I was about 3 or 4 years old I would always ask for a goat. As I am their only grandchild I almost always got what I wanted. I even had a pony and 11 chickens. Everything except goats.

Then once I decided to join Riley Boosters 4-H club I decided to go back to the goat idea almost 3 years ago and because I was in 4-H. I was actually told one goat originally. But after we got Kookie home on 5-21-06. We soon realized that you can't have one alone. So it took one day and my faithful dad found a registered breeder but they didn't have any currently for sale but knew of someone who did. Two days later we had our first registered goat and first caramel. It was "just one more" from there on. We have added to our herd and kept some of our own "kids" and are very pleased with our achivements and the stock we have in our herd. We have two breeders mainly to thank: The Battigs of Cedarside Farms and Kellie Kirkdoffer of Aribba Acres as well as Christa Scarbrough of Scar-Bar-O Ranch. They have some of the best stock and we are very proud to have their lines in our herd!

 And as an ending note this is our farm motto and something my friends at Cedarside Farms taught me, "Pygmy goats are like potato chips, YOU CAN'T HAVE JUST ONE!"

Since May 1, 2009