About
My love affair with Nubian dairy goats initially began in 1983. After we moved to Dry Ridge in Northern Kentucky, I focused on raising my own kids instead.
My youngest and oldest sons petting the goats. (1985)
My youngest with our goats. (1985) The bucks and my oldest. (Mar04)
The girls fighting for attention from my oldest son. (Jun05)
Now, as you can tell, my kids are all grown up, leaving me the time to focus on raising my Nubian kids once more. I rejoined the American Dairy Goat Association in 2003 as N. KY WINDYACRES and am continuing the love affair with Nubian dairy goats all over again...
Goats are not my only passion. I also enjoy organic vegetable gardening, canning, cooking, baking, quilting, sewing, the occasional knitting project, and raising chickens for our farm fresh eggs. I especially love sharing and trying new recipes. I will try to post a few of my own on our Recipes page. If you have an original recipe you love, that is edible for goats or uses goat's milk, and would like to see it included on our site, please submit it to us using our Contact page. If we like it, we'll include it on our Recipes page giving you credit.
The Website
For fun and my own enjoyment, my kids decided to put up a website for our little farm. We never expected the website to receive much traffic. Boy, were we wrong! Our little website has turned into "the little engine that could." I receive several emails weekly from other goat people. I enjoy reading them all and do my best to respond to each. We hope others find it helpful and continue to enjoy the website as much as I do. If you have any comments, questions, or suggestions, please use our Contact page.If you haven't noticed yet, our site is a little different than most or so we've been told. When designing our site, my daughter decided to spotlight each goat like an actor would with his headshot and resume. We love pictures and try to post as many as we can, while still having our webpages load reasonably fast. When it comes to us taking pictures of our goats, we treat them the same as we do our kids. Instead of trying to get them to pose, we simply wait for a nice, sunny day and start snapping candid photos. We take updated udder shots (when we remember to) after each kidding season, one day when our goats are eating on the milking stand.
We do our best to honestly describe each goat; however, we feel that words and photos alone do not do our goats justice. Therefore, we encourage potentional buyers to try and meet our goats in person. Interested buyers are always welcome on the farm. To schedule a visit or for more info, please use our Contact page.
Simple Beginnings
When rebuilding my herd, I tried to find quality Nubian dairy goats from reputable dairy goat farms. I started with one milking doe, Kandy, and three doelings, Matty, Ellie, and Sally.
Our new herd: Kandy, Ellie, Matty, and Sally. (Jun03)
For our first breeding season, I bought a 50% ownership of a buckling, Austin. The does kidded naturally and together we raised their kids, keeping Casey, Cindy, and Max. We pride ourselves on raising goats with gentle temperaments, that are both friendly and manageable. I decided not to keep Matty in our herd, due to her abusive personality towards the other goats, especially the kids.
Kandy is wearing a red collar and is nursing Casey and Cindy. Matty's wearing a yellow collar, Ellie's in blue, and Sally's is white. Max is the spotted kid. (Mar04)
In 2004, I wanted to expand my herd and bloodlines and added two milking does (Bea and Trudy), four doelings (Patty Cake, Connie, Edie, and Toni), and one exquisite buckling (Leo) from other farms. Yes, they were all quality purebred Nubian dairy goats and I was very pleased with them all, except for one main aspect. I had to struggle to teach them to be goats again. The kids did not know that milk comes out warm from their dams! And the does were no help at first either. Once everyone figured it out, they loved it.
We expanded our herd again in the summer of 2005, but only by two doelings; after purchasing Rosie and keeping Jessie.
April 2006, we added our most exciting addition to our herd, a buck all the way from California. We feel Walker's pedigree will compliment our herd and will allow us to continue to breed quality Nubians.
We thought we were finished expanding our herd, but found ourselves adding not one, but two more does in the spring of 2007. Dominique and Mela are the latest additions to our herd. After they were born on our farm, we realized they were just too beautiful for us to part with.
Raising Nubians the Natural Way
There is no debate in the benefits for baby and the mother when humans breastfeed and I strongly believe it is in the same best interest for Nubian dairy goats as well. I maintain a clean, healthy herd (some say spoiled) and as a mother myself, trust Mother Nature.I have a CAE free herd and have everyone tested on a regular basis. I have developed my own variation of a CAE prevention program that still allows does to raise their own kids naturally. Not exposing my clean herd to any CAE sources is key. I do not have any plans to add more Nubian dairy goats from outside my herd, offer stud services, or allow others to go near my Nubian dairy goats without sterilizing first. Utilizing these techniques allow my girls to raise their kids the same natural way that I raised mine. Even though we "dam raise" our kids, all of our goats are still very friendly and easy to manage since we interact with (love on) them daily.
Northern Kentucky WindyAcres strongly believes in "Raising Nubians the Natural Way" and encourages others to do the same, responsibly.
On the picnic table are Connie in a white collar, Toni in green, and Cindy in orange. Bea in pink is butting Edie in orange. Center is Patty Cake in pink and Casey in aqua. Far right is Trudy in purple next to Kandy in red. (Oct04)
Affiliations
N. KY WindyAcres is affiliated with and supports national, state, and local goat assocations. I am a member of the following goat related organizations:Kentucky Goat Producers Association (KGPA)
Northern Kentucky Goat Producers (NKGP)