Tiny Colors Farm

Watch this space for new babies, new purchases, anything new to our herd!

 Tiny Colors Simplicity - congrats to the Allens on getting this cutie!

updated 10/04/2008 - I updated the For Sale page, the Nigerian Buck page and am updating the Senior Doe and Junior Doe pages as you read this!

Also New!  Our youngest son has decided he wants to breed meat babies, so we've added two Boer and another Boer x Nubian doeling to our 2007 Nubian x Boer doe, Cinder, and will be looking for a nice Boer buck to breed them to later this Autumn for Spring 2009 meat kids and the thick, creamy milk that meat goats often produce.  I did get to see the udder on the Boer doe (dam of Cloud and Storm) and it was rather nice so I have high hopes for this new slice of the market. 

I think that with the price of meat these days added to the growing concern people have over the chemicals being used to 'grow' their commercially-available meat there will be quite a few people looking for a home-grown, healthy alternative and goats fit that bill as they're quite a bit smaller than a cow and still produce a nice amount of meat for a family's needs.  I know there's a good chance we'll start keeping a wether or two each year for our own freezer in addition to the cow, lambs and pigs we're currently growing for butcher.  If you are interested in a Boer cross baby for meat or for their incredibly thick, creamy milk be sure to let me know so I don't pre-sell everything we produce directly to the local butcher. 

Ian has named his girls Cinder (pale tan and white Nubian x Boer out of the Urban Acres herd, born Oct 31, 2007, during the wildfires we had locally), Cloud and Storm (Boer sisters, about six weeks old now and growing very typically meaty in size and shape as well as typical Boer coloration with their white bodies and face markings and dark heads / necks) and of course little Wind, a Nubian/Alpine x Boer that looks like a very heavy, meaty black Nubian with cute puppy-dog ears that is polled!  She's about six months old now and will also be bred in November along with Cinder.

First, I apologize for not updating this sooner but with all those babies (49!) we were a bit overwhelmed.  We're ready now to start weaning the little dears off and settle in with the ones that are staying so I thought I'd take a moment to update just a bit.  Most of our kids have found new homes and will be leaving this weekend or next and I'm extremely excited to see what this next generation of Tiny Colors goats are going to do in the show ring as several of them are going to show homes. 

I also want to brag a bit about Willa, who has given us some very pretty babies this year and who was classified by Alice Hall when she went up to the Norco show back in May.  Yay for Willa - she was not at ALL happy about the drive and the move with two kids AND not thrilled to be apart from them (and to have a yearling sneaking nurses off her didn't help) and she STILL managed to garner a score of 89.8 - YAY!  Thanks so much to Alice Hall and Alice Allen who brought this together and now we know just how fantastic our girl is.  With a bit more udder and a few more weeks past freshening (to get over that well-nursed look she had that day) I think she'd score even higher because the only reason she didn't score over 90 was her conditioning on that day.  I can't wait to get some of the other girls classified.  I know Willa and her daughters are being campaigned well this summer and are doing fantastic in the show ring, as is her granddaughter.  I look forward to seeing those young doelings at the Del Mar / San Diego County Fair in a couple weeks.

I still have a couple very sweet wethers available as well as a doeling or two that I thought I'd keep but now am running up against a hay bill and need to sell.  Actually, these would have been the doelings I'd have shown, so I'm leaning towards show homes for them - not that they must go to show homes but I'd prefer it because I think they are suited to it and have the temperament to enjoy it.

Our Fall breeding pen is being set up now and everyone is 'chomping at the bit' to get at it (grin) so watch for kids in about five and a half months out of our yearling does.  We won't have very many bred but we are breeding them all for show babies that lean more towards dairy character, most likely using Sand Storm and his son, MoonShadow.  The boys can't wait and whenever they see me moving the girls around out there they really start to preen, strutting around showing off their stuff to make sure we know just how pretty their babies will be.

Avalanche, Fawn and Rigby also have become quite the little travelers, going to elementary classes as goat ambassadors.  Today it was Mrs. B's class (she owns two of our little babies herself) and the kids were fantastic!  I think Avalanche really likes young kids as she let each and every one of them come up and milk her just enough so they could see what it was like, and they all got to pet her, feed her cheerios off the palm of their hands and just generally get to know how sweet goats could be.  If you are interested in having goats visit your class just drop me an email and we'll see about making it happen!

That's the update for now - more after the SD Co. Fair!  Enjoy Summer and the show season!