Welcome to KDS Dream Goats!
We are Kevin & Diona, our kids, Bailey and Keagen have been in 4-H since they were very first able to, they then moved into FFA! They enjoyed showing and selling goats, and have now both graduated; Bailey in 2014 and Keagen in 2017. We are located in Kennewick, WA on 5 acres in a rural community called Finley (just east of Kennewick). We purchased this land and home in May of 2002 and started with a few Suffolk ewes and started growing! In the spring of 2003 we acquired our first goat and fell in love. In the early spring of 2006, we decided that Boer goats were the path that we wanted to take. I sold off quite a few of my dairy and pygmy stock and started looking around for some quality registered and commercial boers. On May 1, 2008, we sold the last of the ewes and ram! It was a fun and great learning experience.
Bailey decided that she wanted to start raising Nigerian goats. In February 2008 she purchased a pregnant Nigerian from Andrea Green. "Libby" kidded in March with 2 adorable doelings! April 25, 2008 she purchased 2 registered does and a buckling from Jen Tarlton. Bailey was well on her way! She became a member with the American Goat Society and American Dairy Goat Association. Over the years, Bailey has continued to add some beautiful animals to her herd. Bailey's farm name is "Bay's Dream Goats".
With Keagen having a standard Toggenburg for his fitting & showing goat, we needed to bring her into milk. Prior to the Boers, I had raised Mini Oberhaslis, so I was well aware of the mini goats and still loved them. I thought since Bailey had nigies and we didn't need a standard Toggenburg, why not breed her to a nigie? This started our experiment with the mini Toggenburgs. It took us 3 years to figure out which buck to use on her to get the correct colors, but once we did...oh my, her babies started wowing the judges. At this point, we have only kept 3 does and have been lucky to lease Cherry Butte Curious George for a couple years (2015 & 2016).
In 2013 I finally fell in love with the personality of a little month old dam raised standard LaMancha and had to have her. (Side note...It took me many years to get past the tiny ears, lol). I purchased another and kept 2 of the first does' doelings. Well I finally decided that I wanted to start making mini's with these 4 girls, so in May 2017 I purchased a little F2 Mini LaMancha from Mel & Lauri Homer (Diamond L Goats/DLMG Farms), I was able to bring him home with me from the Wine Country Classic Mini Show in June 2017 as a bottle baby. Spring 2018 we had our first mini LaManchas born, 7 of them and only 2 were girls. Middle of October 2018 I picked up a 3rd mini LaMancha doeling again from Mel & Lauri Homer
I absolutely love showing the minis, they are so much easier to handle than the boers. I will still keep a few boers, but am in the process of decreasing those numbers
Update!! I decided it was time to sell my boer goats... It was a tough decision, but one that had to be made. I no longer have any 4-H or FFA kids, Bailey graduated in 2014 and Keagen in 2017. I kept the boers for a while, just because I love them and still had people asking for them. Well we now have many more breeders around us who have excellent quality stock and are already suppling goats for our fair. Since I don't show them, and they were getting too much for me to handle, I decided it was time to focus on my mini's! I now have only 4 boer females left (no bucks). I decided to keep these 4 as I still have 1 person who has requested a market from me. This year 2020 I am breeding only 2 boers, Angelina Rodstrom has allowed me to bring my girls over for breeding. The other 2 that I kept were Sunset, my oldest goat and Razzle Dazzle a doeling born this year that finally met what I had been breeding for and I just couldn't sell her!
Please Enjoy Your Stay ~ and Thank You for stopping by to take a look! When you are finished here, please take a look at Bailey's site!
Bay's Dream Goats
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