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(This is a picture of us with our pet hen and pet duck Picture taken 8/2006.) (placed 4-18-08)

About Us

My husband Terry was part owner of a dairy goat herd in Platteville, WI before we met. He has always liked goats. I hadn’t been around them before. I helped milk and it was awesome. They all had their own personalities. I fell in love! Terry also worked for the Platteville Kmart as an assistant store manager. He was transferred to Carroll, Iowa in August of 04. We moved here and had to live in town. That was a hard thing for us to do. He had to leave the goats behind and start fresh in a different state. We found this place in March of 05. At last back in the country!

My health had gotten to the point I couldn’t work away from home. We bought some hens and I sold farm fresh eggs. I would get 8 to 10 dozen eggs a day. I had my pet hen nosey. She was an aracona hen that laid

(Our First Kid Born 9/13/06.) (placed 4-16-08)

green eggs. I gave her to my daughter when I sold the rest of my hens back in September of 06. I also started raising broilers in 2005 to sell to the public. We had them butchered at Hansen’s Poultry in Kimbelton Ia. In 2006 we did 9 batches of around 200 and 6 batches of 180 last year and sold them to the public. That was fun. I enjoyed the chickens. We are not going to raise anymore to sell to the public. We met a lot of very nice people while having the eggs and the fresh chickens. I’ll miss that. I use to advertise on the radio station 98.9 out of Jefferson in the mornings through the week on John’s Junk Yard and Tom’s trader on Saturday mornings. It was a country station. I was known as the chicken lady in Carroll. That was a lot of fun. I miss that station and the personalities that worked there. They have since changed their format to Classic Rock.

We met Art Killian of Killian Boer Goats of Grimes, IA through a fellow by the name of Chuck Larson with Easter Seals. Chuck is a Rural Solution Counselor. He helps disabled farmers stay on the farm and work on it. I was looking for something I could do to help bring in some money to help my husband. Chuck said why not get in touch with friend of mine he has a grandson that is disabled that manages a herd of goats. We

(This is Maya. We adopted her From a Paws Shelter last fall.  She is a great dog! Very watchful. (placed 4-16-08) )

called Art in the spring of 06 and asked him what we should start out with? He said get a few percentage does and a fullblood buck. He has fanatical Interests in some herds down in Texas and he would look for something nice for us. And he did bring us some nice percentage does from the Quick Farm.
We did and we grew from there~! He has been our mentor. We have asked him lots of questions and he has always been there for us. We started out with 4 percentage does and Homer. We were going to sell our kids for meat. Well that idea didn’t last too long. By the middle part of summer of 2006 we had purchased 2 fullblood does. It has snow balled from there. We have bought several of Art Killian’s Fullblood Boer Goats. I got a call from Art around the end of January of this year asking me if I would like to purchase 7

(Chandler and Granpa just after we got a new batch of broilder chicks 8/11/06)

of his best fullblood does? He was going to give me grandma the old doe that was never going to leave his place, if I wanted her. He said” Kim I know you will take good care of them”. He paid me the best complement I could get as far as I am concerned. He made us a deal we didn’t refuse~! To make a long story shorter- We have built our herd with some of the best stock around. We are going to get into the show ring this year. Some of our stock has been shown and has placed. We are very proud of our herd. Our goal is to get the best to produce the best. We feel we are well on our way.

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