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WELCOME to my farm. My name is
Vicki McGaugh and I have bred and raised Nubian dairy goats,
from a commercial dairy to my now smaller show herd, with milk
and soap sales, for 22 years. I started the herd as a young
stay at home mom, the focus was as a small 4H farm, with the
demand for milk and exports of dairy stock, and our love of
showing the farm grew quite large. As my daughters graduated
from high school went to college and had children of their own,
I stopped milking commercially and now keep about 12 milkers,
sell milk locally, show a little, appraise and soap. I am
located north of Houston Texas, in the beautiful Sam Houston
National Forest.
Herd health is of the utmost importance.
I started feeding 17% alfalfa pellets when I became unhappy with
the keeping quality of the alfalfa hay. The milkers are fed
whole grains, mostly oats, black oil sunflower seeds for added
fat, and a supplement pellet for more protein when needed. I
have worked hard on the mineral program for the milkers, which
includes Bluebonnet’s Tech Master Complete, containing kelp and
yeast. Selenium injections are given twice a year to the adults
and to infants at birth, and I copper bolus our bucks. All kids
are hand raised on CAE prevention. All births are attended, with
the barn monitored, and kids are raised separately from adults.
Kids receive heat-treated colostrum from the older vaccinated
does. I take special care of worming and cocci treatments
living in the south, using prevention on kids and fecal sampling
adults. Since the onset of testing and culling back in the
early 90’s I have not had any chronic or contagious health
problems or diseases. The whole herd also tested negative for
sub-clinical staph mastitis last year.
I ELISA CAE test colostrum on each doe
that freshens here (PAVL), and whole herd blood test annually
(WSU).
We are sold out
for 2008. For those of you interested in kids out of *B
Blissberry Santa's Lil' Helper please contact me for kids born
in the spring of 2009. Thank you to all my customers who made
2008 a banner year.
Vicki McGaugh
550 Dogwood Road
Cleveland, TX 77328
Phone: 281-592-3039
vickilonesomedoe@hotmail.com
vicki@lonesomedoenubians.com
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