| Tiny Town Goats |



| In order for one to truly pontificate the quality of the herd - they must prove themselves through other means. In dairy goats this means, at sanctioned dairy goat shows, Linear Appraisal, milk testing, or all three!!!! One must also look carefully at the wording on these goat mill sites. Does it say that the doe IS a permanent champion or does it say that it won a reserve grand champion at such and such a show? Huge difference. In order to get that permanent champion status, a doe must win Grand Champion three different times, under more then one judge, with at least two of those legs IN MILK, and , there had to be enough entries (goats defeated) entered that day for it it count. An example of how one can make a win sound special..... Bucky buck won reserve grand champion at the Buck Expo! This is actually on a website of a nearby breeder I saw recently. Well the innocent reader thinks 'wow - that sounds good'...but those who do their homework find out, that there was only 7 goats entered, 5 belonged to that exhibitor, and there were not even enough animals entered to count!!!! Thus - this goat beat only 5 animals - all from the one farm. Here at Tiny Town - when we say Permanent Champion - we mean it! We are proud to have two permanent champions under our very own herd name. We additionally have four junior champion does who also carry the Tiny Town herd name, and, two senior doe permanent champions that were purchased from other herds as babies to add to our genetics. We participate in whole herd Linear Appraisal. We were thrilled to have four of our does score an 89 VG, six with 88 VG and many of those were first freshening yearlings! LA provides an unbiased professional appraiser from ADGA who scores your goats individually on their merits. We are hopeful that some of these up and coming young girls will graduate to the 90's and get the excellent rating in 2011! We are also very proud to have our very own Brad Pit score a 90 Excellent!!!! (Brad was the only buck who we officially scored this year). At Tiny Town Goats we take milking seriously. Our set up includes a 4 goat at a time system, and every doe is washed, milked, and teats sealed two times EVERY SINGLE DAY! Watch for blanket statements like "we milk our goats"...... nope it is not lie, when you milk one , one time is it? Not here - the milking season is hectic. The does are milked twice a day, and we pasteurize usually 3 batches per day. All of our kids (the four legged kind) are hand fed pasteurized milk, three times per day - as part of a CAE prevention policy. This is the accepted standard and norm in dairy goats, and yes, we test our herd. We have been running an experiment in 2010 with diatomacous earth mixed in our grain. Our does are fed a custom milling mix of 18% sweet feed, made specially for the Tiny Town herd. During the milking season, the does are also fed free choice Chaffhaye alfalfa, and either free choice Orchard grass hay or grazed in the goat pasture planted just for them of Orchard grass, festollium, and white ledino clover. We are happy to help each and every new goat owner to get ready, get educated on what they need, and stay in touch as their herds progress. There is so much we could say here - but we believe that proof is in the pudding, not in the marketing and patting ourselves on the back...so this narration is over! Check out the doe pages - the girls and their accomplishments speak for themselves! Udder shots provided on each as these are DAIRY ANIMALS - it is all about the udders, the milk, and the production.......and please please remember, YOU DON"T MILK BLUE EYES AND SPOTS!!!!!! Jane Bailey - Member: American Dairy Goat Association, American Nigerian Dairy Goat Association, Maryland Dairy Goat Association and the Eastern Director for ANDDA, the Nigerian Dwarf national breed club. |

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| A word about us and buying goats over the internet.......... Nigerian Dwarves are dairy goats. As such, each and every breeding should be carefully planned to produce more milk, better milk, better milkers, stronger dairy animals. Here at Tiny Town, that is our primary focus. YOU DO NOT MILK BLUE EYES AND SPOTS!!!!!! We also believe that proof is in the pudding! You can visit websites created by great marketing minds that give the appearance of the be all end all of Nigerian Dwarf producers. Let the buyer beware......These breeders are not much different then puppy mills. You can only market your animals highlighting herd names of others for so long. The herd name of an animal say absolutely nothing about the quality of the animal - only who owned the doe at the time it was bred!!!! All breeders, of all species of animals know that not every breeding turns out to be as good as hoped, and thus in goats there are hundreds and hundreds of goats out there carrying the herd names of the greats, yet, they themselves were simply culls. |
