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| Welcome to S- J Farms!
S-J Farms is owned by Scott and Jonell Walker and is located in the extreme Northwest corner of Ohio.
As a child, Jonell's family raised Nubian dairy goats to provide milk for the family. Jonell missed having the fresh milk so in
March 2008, we decided to raise goats. We purchased a kinder doeling
(Maybell) and a Nubian doe in June 2008. We loved our kinder doeling's
personality and compact size, so we
decided to start our own line of Kinders. We purchased another Nubian
doe and 2 pygmy bucks in 2009. Our first attempt was unsuccessful, but
the following breeding season (2010) we had our first kinder triplets
born on the farm.
We were soon disappointed to discover though,
that there wasn't really a market for kinders in our area. So in the
late fall of 2011, we decided to sell out of the kinders and focus on
our nubians. In August of 2011 we participated in our first Linear
Appraisal thru American Dairy Goat Association. We received very
valuable information from the appraisal session and plan to continue to
have our herd appraised each year. We are also planning to start doing
milk tests on our does. We feel that the does that we have selected are
very good milkers, but it would be great to have the paperwork to prove
it!
We also discovered that we had an excess of goat milk. In
2010, Jonell started using our extra milk to handcraft goat milk soaps
and goat milk lotions. Please visit our Goat Milk Soap and Lotion page
to see our line of Grandma Jo's Goat Milk Soap & Lotion!
All adult goats tested CAE Negative on 3/26/2011 and 3/18/2011 thru BioTracking.
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