Beaver-Dam Goats features PATRON'S BABIES and GRANDBABIES as my first
herd sire!!
Macho as my second black spotted fella and Moonshadow as #3!!!!!
Snowflake and Lucinda
(1999 from Penny-Penny) Blizzard (1/00 from Willow) and
Lovett (2/00 from Theo)
Located 35 miles NW of Charlotte, North Carolina
507 Landers Chapel Road
Lincolnton, NC 28092-6254
goatlady@beaverdamgoats.com
(704) 732-8826; (704) 732-7565 fax
Over the last few years I have turned more and more to dairy goats, eliminated cattle and reduced the horses. This seems to work far better for my aging back and legs!! This is my third farm-and by far the smallest and "tamest" one as well. While I am not interested in showing my animals (been there, done that with 4H horses), my goal is to raise quality animals who will produce milk, with some very showable ones --for someone else to show! I have settled with Nubians, although I have had some others along the way - they just seem to do better in these hot and humid southern summer days, and I love the color variations. I have tried to combine the Cadillac and Faith Farm lines back to the Hallicienda Frosty Marvin bloodlines, also with a lot of Foxwood in my herd (goes back to Cadillac and Faith Farm as well). My latest buck brings in a whole new set of genetics, with his backfround being primarily Goldthwaite. I have been able to participate in three Linear Appraisals sessions over the years, with most scores reported below from the May 2006 appraisal, with appraisal scheduled again for this year.
For those that have visited me, or my website, in the past you will notice a DRASTIC reduction in animals at the end of the 2007 year. This was partly due to making my retirement less work, but also due to the terrible drought we have been experiencing.
Towards the end of the 2002 season I decided to begin with artificial insemination for the 2003 year, and have added many good bucks to my "tank" for the coming years, now selling down to one adult buck here, and one leased out. My herd strength is generally in dairy character and body with some weakness in topline and houlder width (as with many Nubians, unfortunately!!), with the older retained does all milking 8-12 lbs. Most of my pictures are "home grown" - actually, most of the goats look far better than my pictures!
In
the spring of 2008 my herd of Nubians registered with ADGA (American Dairy
Goat Association) consists of one adult buck, one nine year old, one seven
year old, four two or three year olds and one baby saved from the spring
of 2007 (a Macho grandbaby).
one young buck so far retained and leased out, one doe aged eight, one five year old, two four year olds, three two year olds, five dry yearlings, and four 2006 babies. I culled very very heavily during the 2002 season due to personal illness, and also early in 2006. as I want my herd for fun and pleasure, and too many was becoming almost like work.... Honey-Bear Alchemy's Patron, my prime herd sire whose lines are in most of the herd, has "retired" as a wether for a few years, and unfortunately died in the Fall of 2006.
I currently have five guardian dogs for my two fields of goats, four obtained through Rescue. Lass, who started this all, was a Great Pyrenee, who I lost the summer of 02 at age 13 1/2. Originally from a pygmy goat farm in South Carolina, she helped train the two female dogs I now have. Pogo (1/2 Pyr and 1/2 Anatolian Shepherd), was adopted five years ago, and is now turning about seven-she believes in reorganizing anything she can carry-never know where she will have moved anything that can fit in her mouth!! I purchased a female pup, Sara, Great Pyr, , now almost seven. I added another female, Sylvie, 1/2 Pyr 1/2 Anatololian rescue for Sara to train, now almost three years old. And to round it out, I added a rare Greek Shepherd, Mollie, early in 2006 as she was sheep trained and I added some sheep to the menagerie.
Herd Health: In November of 2003 I achieved a Certified Brucellosis Free Herd status and a herd Acrcredited as Tuberculosis Free through the USDA, which was continued until N.C. was declared a free state. I also do yearly CAE testing, and although I was enrolled in the Voluntary USDA Scrapie Certification, I have since withdrawn due to the amount of paperwork and having seen no appreciable benefits for me or my herd with the program.
Sales/Reservations: I prefer to sell most of the kids that are for sale by two to three weeks of age, although I will raise any to weaning with appropriate deposits. All doelings are raised on CAE prevention (pasteurized or replacers/kids removed at birth) and disbudded. Weaning prices for most kids range from $300-450, with a 20% discount if picked up soon enough for you to bottle-feed rather than me! As I specialize in spots, often there may be a really good deal on a solid colored baby. My prime male spotted animals are kept as buck kids, with many others wethered and later sold as pets, pack animals, or for meat. I also usually also have a couple of milkers for sale, as when I decide to retain a kid for my herd, another must go as I want to maintain small numbers. If you are interested in reserving a kid for next year, please contact me and arrange a deposit for the dam of your choice, or a specified color pattern! If a 4H student in Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina or Tennessee needs a baby to show, please have your 4H goat leader contact me as a discount may be available. Please note specific sales list at end as well. I do reserve the right to "first choice" for herd replacements, unless otherwise specified in the sales contract.
Sales Guarantee: Animals leave here eating well and healthy.
I am not usually able to check out where they are going, and thus can only
offer a very limited replacement guarantee, as the type of
homes, pastures and fencing they go to vary tremendously. If an animal
becomes sick within a week of purchase, please contact me IMMEDIATELY!!
If a baby dies within 6 months and a vet certificate ascertains from necropsy
that there was a defect the animal will be replaced or money refunded.
If an animal by age three has not reproduced, a vet certificate stating
the cause of infertility or sterility as a genetic one (and not environmentally
caused) will usually result in a replacement animal or other adjustment.
Pogo guarding! Ava racing my grandson Chaz!! MINE says other grandson Ian!
Beaver-Dam Goats, Owner Paula F. Gavitt
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Barn was moved summer 06--no longer in flood plain!!
update 12/29/07