VITA-VIERRE

My husband and I raise registered Nubian goats and a variety of heritage fowl on 20 acres of upland shortgrass prairie in the far western Nebraska panhandle... We keep a relatively natural management style with our animals. Our goats are pastured for much of the year with supplemental hay or grain only as necessary to maintain reasonable condition. We feel our goats are healthiest and their milk is perhaps healthiest for us when maintained on a high roughage / low concentrate diet... Nearly all of our kids are dam-raised, and nearly all of our does are excellent mothers. After 20+ years of breeding CAE negative goats, we don't feel a need to hand raise kids for disease prevention. Our dam raised kids seem to be especially healthy, robust and well adjusted. We do handle our young kids frequently as we don't relish dealing with wild stock, and check does udders frequently to prevent over-filling issues. Kids are separated from their dams at night when we are needing milk. This practice..