Sweet Goats, A Cashmere Goat Farm

                                                             Photo by KAE Photography

Sweet Goats is located about 20 miles North East of Colorado Springs Colorado. In a small town, Peyton Colorado.

  We stared Sweet Goats in 2001, when we bought out first two Cashmere goats.  Sophie our first doe, she was a year old and Cookies our first wether he was 4 months old.  In that time we have gone to having over 75 goats.  We try to breed every year to improve the fiber and any conformation corrections that we can. The reason we got started with Cashmere goats, we wanted to get Brenna into some aspect of 4H. We wanted to do something that was an easy keeper and still a lot of fun. A Cashmere goat is just what we were looking for. They are great weed control, and they eat more noxious weeds then any other goat. They will eat the pine needles from all those pine trees and they LOVE the thistle that grows wild. They are some of the easiest keepers. With all that you get a great product that everyone loves "CASHMERE".

Cashmere goats are a type of goat. At this time there is no breed of Cashmere goat. One reason is any goat can produce cashmere. Cashmere goats produce two types of "hair" There is the guard hair that "guards" the fiber as it is growing and then there is the Cashmere. It has been said that Cashmere is the only fiber fit for a king. We think that all our goats are kings and Queens.

  Cashmere goats grow their fiber from the winter solstice to the summer solstice. June 26th until December 26.  As it starts to become warmer they will start to loose (or some people call it blow) the fiber. (March) Our goats do not all loose it at one time, we will comb some goats for weeks, getting a little at a time. They loose it at their own pace.  At that time we comb them out and gather the fiber in bags to take with us to goat shows.    It is possible to sheer the cashmere goats but we prefer to comb them out.  After the show season is over for us we send the fiber in to have it cleaned and dehaired.  At that point we sell most all our fiber to spinners.

 When you see Cashmere goats, you should always see them with horns. Don't be scared of them. They are used to protect themselves and their babies from predators. It also makes it easier in the show ring to hold the goat still while the judge is feeling them. Cashmere goats do not sweat. If they did it would ruin the fiber, so that is another reason they need their horns. The heat escapes through the horns.

If you would like to contact us, please feel free to call me at 719-749-0195, and leave a message if we do not answer, you never know when we are out with the goats and horses or email me at lharfert@msn.com.

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