New Kids on the Block

 
It has been a very busy summer here at Sunny Acres.  While the weather has at times been quite challenging, including two major hail storms that severely set back both our gardens and an annual pasture seeding, we still managed to put up more 1st and 2nd cutting hay than in years past.   We battled parasites in our herd of young kids, no doubt due to some very wet and warm weather throughout the spring and summer.  (Ironic, when you see all the reports of drought, but here in Athens we really didn't have prolonged dry spells.)  The kids were set back some due to the parasite issue, but are now rebounding well and are thriving on rotational pastures of regrowth grasses, clover, and trefoil. 

About a month ago, we took delivery of ten new kids....purebred Kikos....from Tennessee.  They come from "Goats Unlimited", the herd of Dr. An Peischel.  Anyone who studies the Kiko breed will recognize this herd, and Dr. Peischel, as a leading authority on Kikos.  She has an outstanding reputation for selecting and breeding excellent goats, through diligent culling and performance testing.  We were fortunate to be able to purchase a combination of purebred registered and purebred commercial doelings, along with a new purebred registered buckling to become part of our expanding Kiko herd.  These new doelings will not be bred until Fall 2013, as is the recommendation of Dr. Peischel, but the new buckling will be used against a small number of our current yearling does.  It is our hope that in the near future, we will be able to offer quality, purebred Kiko breeding stock to interested buyers, along with commercial and crossbred Kikos.

As always in farming, despite setbacks, we look to the future for better things to come.

Kiko Buck for Sale

Looking for a buck that is ready to go to work breeding your does and can introduce parasite resistance into your herd?

We have just the one for you!  Offering for sale a purebred, AKGA registered Kiko buck.  A proven sire, Donkey Odie is a 4-1/2 yr. old, dark gray buck who has produced many daughters that we've kept in our herd, so now it is time to bring in a new buck.  Originally brought to Sunny Acres to breed our commercial Boer and Boer-cross does to add parasite resistance, he's done a tremendous job of that!  He has only been dewormed once (when we brought him home over three years ago), and his kids have shown wonderful resistance to parasites.  Some of them have not yet needed to be dewormed at all.  He also throws lots of color in his kids.  Some of his first doelings kidded this year, and they are producing kids that show the same positive characteristics.

See photos below of Donkey Odie and some of his offspring. You can contact us through our website if you'd like more information regarding this buck.   www.sunnyacresgoats.com