I’ve been working our small farm since the age of 11 or so, when I got my first goat, Daisy. The herd they joined is also disease tested and CL Abscess free, and is an ADGA plus herd. I am hoping to have a rental farm house that allows me to have my goats on my own farm in the next year or two. Brazen, a 2021 Red x Legacy AI kid, managed to break her pastern in the trip or shortly after, so she gets to wear a splint – but otherwise the move was relatively smooth!Ģ018 UPDATE – my goats have joined my friends dairy herd, Quarter-Mile, in Hudson, MI! My father (who was doing the bulk of the work) is sick of milking 2x per day every day, and I currently rent a town home in the city I work in, so cannot have the goats here. The whole herd – 8 does in milk, 1 dry/due in May doe, (1) 14yo pet wether Tux (yes, he’s still around!), and 7 babies from 2021 made the trip. My fiance and I have purchased 10 acres with 2 barns and a farm house for us to start our new adventures. For more information about our biosecurity protocols and past test results, please see the Biosecuritypage!Ģ021 update– On 4/22/21 the herd moved out of where they were crashing at Quarter-Mile Farm in Hudson and into their new digs in Six Lakes, MI. Often and whenever possible, the initial test is prior to animals ever setting foot on the property if they are over 6 mon at time of purchase. In the rare cases we purchase animals, they undergo a 90 day isolation period, during which they are tested TWICE for CL, CAE, and Johnes – once at the beginning and once at the end of the biosecurity period. We have also never had a positive CL test. Unfortunately the blood test is not terribly accurate or reliable so we do not routinely run it on the base herd. We also did originally start out whole herd blood testing for CL for many years, and still utilize it on purchased animals, twice pre and post biosecurity isolation period. Our herd is also CL abscess free. The few random non-CL abscesses we have had through the many years of goat raising have always been very non-classic for CL (not correct locations) AND were cultured (gold standard testing method) and have always been negative. In April 2022, we also are entire herd NEGATIVE for TB and Brucellosis. We generally test yearly in the fall/winter, pre-kidding. We maintain a CAE and Johnes NEGATIVE herd AND we are a CL abscess free herd.
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