Breeding Goats VS Family Use and sort of off topic Farm names

I used to have a list of farm names when I was younger; now I am having such a hard time naming any thing. I still have 8 chickens that I need to name and I then I figured I might as well have a name for things if I do get into selling off any extra goats and what not. I have really enjoyed hearing all of the story's.

Great thread.. Awesome to hear everyone's stories.. Here's mine..

Ever since I was little I've preferred the rural life.. We lived in north Carolina for a short while, some relatives live in Indiana, my aunt once lived 'in the boonies' when I was younger.. I loved the open spaces and quiet.. But I was born and raised in the suburbs and the few pieces of land in south Florida were very expensive.. I'm talking millions..

So in 2004 when my husband got let go from his internet job, the lease was up on our rental place and we had to move in with my parents.. I love my parents but I'll never do that again.. We started looking for a place to buy since we hated renting and everything in south Florida was outside of our price range.. So we expanded our search and finally found our house with 1.73 acres.. I was delighted to have a big yard and was going to make a big garden because I thought you had to have a lot of land to have a farm..

But I figured I could at least have chickens.. That led me to this site and some others and I realized that a mini farm on my little property was very possible.. I found out that goats where my best bet for milk and then found kinders which were excellent for meat also.. I love things that have more than one purpose or function so kinders were perfect.. And they were small which was good for my small property.. Everything else I'm going to have will have a dual purpose also.. Chickens for meat and eggs.. Rabbits for meat, manure for the veggie garden, possibly fur, and possibly a 4-h option for my oldest son.. I worked at a goat farm to earn my three does and am now planning how to get them home.. I have new zealand red rabbits coming in January or February and am planning a large egg incubator..

I also love the unusual or heritage breeds.. Anything 'different'.. Hence the kinder goats, new zealand red rabbits, american chinchilla rabbits eventually, and heritage or odd breeds of chickens and ducks.. I do want to help spread these breeds so I will be breeding for improvement.. The best thing is any I don't keep or sell can go in the freezer.. I also want to grow a farm because I like doing things myself and raising my own food gives me a real sense of personal satisfaction..

As for a name, I've decided to go with Silvermoon Acres.. The Silvermoon part is in reference to a story I've been working on since before we moved here about a moon goddess.. Doubt I'll ever get that story finished.. But this is her tribute..

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Here are some farm names I have come up with, what are your thoughts?
Celtic Glow Farms
Celtic Knot farms
Fair Folk farms
Cadence farms
Mycroft Farms
Lochness farms
Smashn dragon farms
Celtic cross farms
Dancing dragon farms
Wisteria farms
Tir na nog Farm

Those are good names, my favs are: Celtic Glow Farms, Celtic Knot farms, Fair Folk farms, Cadence farms, Celtic cross farms, Dancing dragon farms, and Wisteria farms.:baby04:

Trying to find a herd name that's not already registered was hard for me. (I wanted something earthy, fun, but also conveying my belief of stewardship of our animals, etc.)

My story: grew up in the burbs of Fl., joined FFA in High school so that I could raise some steer. My family hated that, but I always told them that I'll move to the country one day and have a farm.

Met my DH, and told him up front, I'm moving to the country, (he's from the city). So lived in the city a bit, went to school, saved up, and eventually we bought a little piece of land.

I wanted a beef cow actually, but my DH said no,they were too big, and I can get what we can fit in the car for under $50. So I looked for my alternative cow, and found some scrub-pygmy cross goats in our area. And well, they milked okay, but I really didn't like how it was hard to find homes for their kids, and it took alot of pygmy crosses to get a gallon of milk!(I got about 1 cup per doe each milking)

Eventually, I was able to convince DH to agree to a larger dairy goat, and I got some grades, Nubian-Togg, and Nubian-Alpine, and my first purebred Nubian buck. The grades the milked well but I really fell in love my Nubian's buck personality, and really gravitated to the mellower/gregarious Nubians. I eventually sold all of my pygmy crosses, most of the grades and stuck with my Nubies.

I have my goats for family use, but, I love to do appraisels, test the milk, and see how my herd improves, both structurally and dairy wise(cheese yield,etc). So I guess you might call me a breeder too.
Megan

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Sure Chewie, I was raised in a subburb of San Diego, on a horse farm. I was a single mom with a good job, I also was the manager of the 4plex I lived in...a salior (of which we were forbidden to date when younger moved into the complex and he moved me in 1982 kicking and screaming to Houston, TX. We bought a tiny little house with his VA loan, I proceeded to raise rabbits, have a few hens and had every square foot of my backyard in garden. I put edible plants in the front yard foundation planting beds, and got turned in routinely for not assimilating into what is percieved as normal plants around your house....I loved my house, I hated all these rules, I had never heard of a homeowners association that could tell me I could not have rosemary as my foundation plants!

I found this property (virgin woods) in the newspaper and when we visited it, my husband initially said no, always have had money of my own and I told him well I am buying it, you can stay here then We moved up in a travel trailer while the house was selling, because my daughter was starting 1st grade. Our families thought we had lost our minds. Husband worked in Houston at the time and communted, he mostly stayed at his moms during the week. I had our land cleared (took out about 90% of the pines) and started fencing, and bought a goat. We added a big porch onto the travel trailer so the kids had someplace to play when it rained, husband would bring home marine batteries each weekned, that he charged up at work, for me to use all week for lights in the travel trailer. Both heat and stove, oven and fridge ran off propane, I had to take propane bottles to fill each week along with going to the laundry mat (I had never been to a lundry mat before this). I also had 4, 55 gallon plastic drums I went to the local mom and pop store with, in the back of my truck and filled them with water, syphoning them into the holding tank of the trailer for water. After the first couple times bucketing poop from the holding tank out into the woods, one of the weekends husband was home we rented a backhoe and dug an outhouse...the bathroom in the trailer was for emergenices only Everyone made fun of the outhouse, not because of it being an outhouse but because I had a regular toilet seat, a mirror, battery powered lights, curtains hung and a magazine rack.

It was soo freakin hot, humid, muggy, awful. We had soo much rain that at times we felt like even God thought this was the stupidest thing we could do. I had a good dog though, felt safe, after my inital freaking out about how dark it was...dead end of a dirt road with no visible lights. Luxuries were going to town and while the clothes were in the dryer I would go to a beauty shop and have my hair washed and blown dry (hair down to my waist). One trip I had my hair cut off into a boy cut

We started the house and paid for it out of pocket, we were debt free, no phone for about 6 months because out here you can't get a phone line down unless you have electricity and we were 12 months without it. Our neighbors down the road actually told the telephone company about us, that we were really living here, give them a phone! We had a phone for nearly a year with exposed wire running about 1/4 mile down the road and our driveway. We built the 40x40 house we have now weekends for 3 years. When husband would go to work on Monday he would leave me with a list of things to do, put screws every 6 inches on the subfloor, insulate, tarpaper or build with a jig on that subfloor all the roof trusses. This was 1986 to 1989 and we could not afford air tools or the compressor back then, now they are cheaper. We had all the old navy books on construction and me coming from a construction background it was really amazing how when you started a task, say sheet rocking, by the time you were done you were a pro. We moved in and our travel trailer sits at our friends deer camp. The day we had running water out of a water hose, after the well was dug was like christmas. Once the house was done, husband quit his job and started Handyman Services...I sold milk, exported goats (which paid for the dairy barn I have now) and sold breeding stock during the winters when work was slow, it took a good 5 years of persistance, most would have quit and gotten a real job for his business to take off. Now that he is comfortable, it's my turn, he pays all the bills and my profit goes back into my business finally, before we ate my profits, and my principle, I sold stock I never wanted to.

The kids are all grown, we have 3 grandkids, and two of my children have built places on the property we own, out of pocket, just like us, except they have power and water, and stayed in the main house with us instead of roughing it.

Now its our turn, we are remodeling, with alot of our house built with used things....old windows and doors, cheapo asphalt tiles etc...it's nice to work on something that you can throw at least some money at it. Vicki

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A 3 decade dairy goat farm homestead that is now a retail/wholesale soap company and construction business.

Any thoughts of farm names? I want to try and have something in place just in case.

I like Fair Folk Farms the best

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Fair Folk Farms is good. You could make a cool logo of intertwined F's.

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End of the Road farm.... a name given to me by the county tax office because there was no lot numbers and I was moving a building down here, at the end of the road.

Zong- what a great way to get a name LOL! I have just loved reading all the stories.

you might want to check the ADGA herd name list.
I'm pretty sure there is a Celtic knot herd of nubians.
I could not think of a name for our place either.Someone said" look out your window, what do you see" tried a few different ones to see if anyone used them and settled on One Willow farm.
I think if we move i could get another one(willow that is) so the name would fit anywhere!
good luck

My farm name is Knotneer. People would ask where I lived, & I'd try to describe my location based on towns, rivers, & state forests... and the reply would always be, "You're not near anything!" I have since learned that the correct location description is "Two miles south of Maynard Benson's, the place with the goats".

Great story, Vicki.

Evermore Farms. Because when we first pullled up to the place, we both said we were buying it and never, ever moving again!

The goats- I needed to register a herd name with ADGA and Evermore and several takeoffs on it werent available. I love geology. The rocks and formations here in NW AR just fascinate me. So I registered "Banded Rock" as my herd name. A tribute to the beautiful country we are blessed to live in.

The herd itself- first got into goats for family milk back preY2k. For various reasons, had to get out of it awhile. Once we moved here, jumped back in both feet first.

I consider myself a novice breeder. I'd like to build the very best quality herd I can and someday have that herd name recognized for it. It costs the same 300 or 350 $ a year to keep feed and care for a mutt as it does for a champion, even if they give the same amount of milk. So why not work towards keeping does that I can sell their babies for enough money to pay for the whole operation? So Ive invested in the best bloodlines I can afford so far, and am working to produce the kind of goat I'd be thrilled to buy. It may take many years to get there, but thats my goal.

And if the economy falls apart and we go into depression I want the very best stock for the ones I keep, even if the market for show quality babies falls out. In Nubians the show winners have the same traits that the good, productive and healthy doe has- great mammaries that hold up well to good production and age, good legs, strong bodies with good rumen capacity. The lines I'm working with have high butterfat and high production, just what I'll need for a homestead business making cheese and soap if TSHTF.

Right now I'm just milking for us and few other customers and friends, since i work fulltime (and more). Later, if I actually stay employed long enough to retire, I plan to expand a small income from these goats. I would enjoy that! And if things get real bad over the next couple of years, they may help us stay afloat. So they arent bringing in an income yet, but I hope to get there over the next couple of years.

nubiansinny- I found the farm you were talking about it is called Celtic-Knot Farms; I think that would be too confusing if I used Celtic Knot. Guess I'll keep looking. I really am not looking into getting into breeding; but I do want to keep all my options open.

Cadence farms
Dancing dragon farms
I like these two the best.

I got into goats because no one will ever trust me with a DR field and trimmer mower again.
The weeds got really bad, so I got 3 goats. Then someone gave me a free pygmy and I decided that I really like goats and wanted to make more of it. Funny I have sold the orginal 4 that got me into goats.

I could not go into meat goats I decided. Nothing that I see from a baby could I part with to be killed. So I went dairy and just have to deal with the disbudding. Which is really hard for me and they get over it before I do.

I wanted to name my farm/herd "Tiny Terrors" but I figured that would scare people off so I went with "Short n Sweet Farm" since I bred Nigies and mini Nubians.

Paul just wether them and keep them as weed eating pets. I have a few wethers that I have fallen in love with too. Thanks for the compliment on my newest kids. Can't wait to see pictures of yours, before you hack off their ears, lol.

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I started a little over a year ago with Gretta the pregnant goat. We moved from the city to this 10 acre homestead 2-1/2 years ago with plans to have a couple horses. My Dad and Stepmom came to visit and were going on and on about how much they loved their 2 little goats when they had them. They had them for a short time but had to get rid of them because of zoning laws and someone complained . So I thought yeah it might be kinda cool to have a goat. So I put an ad in the paper...wanted: Pet goat. Got a few calls. Went to visit 2 wethers but they had horns so I said no. Then we met Gretta and fell in love (horns & pregnant!!!) At first I thought no way because she was pregos..but the guy convinced me that would be easy and so much fun. So we did! Now I have 3
As far as a name...we don't really have one. If we did it would probably be "The Nelson Homestead" or "The Nelson Kook-a-la Zone" :banana02:

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If you are going to use this for dairy goats you might want to steer away from Celtic Knot it is already being used by a well known dairy goat breeder http://celticknotlm.com/

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Coso- Someone already mentioned that they thought there was a farm by that name and to double check using the dairy goat farm list. There is a farm list as Celtic-Knot farm; I thought it would be too close to use Celtic Knot Farm, so I am still thinking of picking one of the names I listed already. I am not looking into becoming a breeder persay but if the option is there I do not want to burn the bridge so to speak.

Does anyone have the farm name of EIEIO farm? You know as in the old mcdonald song; I was just singing it to my youngest, and thought it might make a cute name.

Say Katgowen what are they singing about? Is this the same song Dr John sings?

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