rugged, field-hardened dairyness IS WHAT WE AIM FOR.

The land is already proven to be an excellent source of nourishment yielding higher quality hair, milk, meat, and even pets. Goats hardened on the land provide a litany of benefits to any herd, that most give little attention to. Such as acclimation to the elements, parasite resistance, savvy field and forage knowledge, self-medication, herd dynamic, strong progeny, excellent disposition and more. The conformation of all of the progeny born in our pastoral herd, is superior to that of the kids we started our foundation herd with.

Customarily, little consideration is given to the value provided by goats permitted time to develop among a foraging herd. Did you know a goat’s learning begins in utero, and continues before weaning? But the process is complete after weaning. Whereby knowledge of food avoidance, food selection and self-medication through plant secondary compounds, is complex social learning attained through observation and imitation. As is shaping proper feeding behavior, how and where to forage. Your pregnant does foraging on the land, are already training their kids what to eat!
Without the dam, the herder takes up the task. Thus the goats have to learn by trial and error, and relying on some memory that they retained from their dams in utero. Only able to exercise that if they are not confined all the time.