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| About Just Kidding Farm |
We Have a small Irrigated place in central WA near
Cle Elum on which we keep a few Standardbred
coach horses. The horses weren't keeping up
with the pasture, especially the weeds, so several
summers ago we purchased some Boer Goats
from several breeders in Washington state.
We took two of them to an ABGA/USBGA show in
Western WA just to learn the ropes and where
pleasantly surprised with the results so we tried a
couple more shows and that was good too.
Besides winning some ribbons we met some great
people and learned a little about the industry.
With our first few crops, we kept the does and sold
the wethers to the local 4h kids. That in itself was
a great experience. The wethers did well at the 4H
shows and we met some more wonderful people in
the industry.
We still try to go to a couple shows a year to stay in
touch but our main emphasis now is more
commercial. After several generations of Boers on
our place, we have kept the animals that adapted
to our environment and culled the rest. All our
does are sturdy animals that thrive on pasture.
Some are show quality and others are just good
tough brood does who can raise there own kids.
We can have a very hard winter here but our girls
do fine on grass hay, alfalfa pellets and minerals.
Anyone can get good growth rates on Boers with
expensive factory feed mixes but that sort of
defeats the whole purpose of range fed animals.
We are striving for good gain on as natural feed as
we can.
Cle Elum on which we keep a few Standardbred
coach horses. The horses weren't keeping up
with the pasture, especially the weeds, so several
summers ago we purchased some Boer Goats
from several breeders in Washington state.
We took two of them to an ABGA/USBGA show in
Western WA just to learn the ropes and where
pleasantly surprised with the results so we tried a
couple more shows and that was good too.
Besides winning some ribbons we met some great
people and learned a little about the industry.
With our first few crops, we kept the does and sold
the wethers to the local 4h kids. That in itself was
a great experience. The wethers did well at the 4H
shows and we met some more wonderful people in
the industry.
We still try to go to a couple shows a year to stay in
touch but our main emphasis now is more
commercial. After several generations of Boers on
our place, we have kept the animals that adapted
to our environment and culled the rest. All our
does are sturdy animals that thrive on pasture.
Some are show quality and others are just good
tough brood does who can raise there own kids.
We can have a very hard winter here but our girls
do fine on grass hay, alfalfa pellets and minerals.
Anyone can get good growth rates on Boers with
expensive factory feed mixes but that sort of
defeats the whole purpose of range fed animals.
We are striving for good gain on as natural feed as
we can.
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