News Kids on the Farm

As of today we have eight new kids on the ground and do they look awsome! The great confirmation on these kids comes directly from the outstanding sires we used and the exceptional quality of our dams. The sires we used were PGCH Oak Haven Farm Quinton, PGCH Kabill Farms Zachary and 3x Grand Champion Gunsmoke. Our dams included Possum Hollow Spirit, Cover Girl and Roxanne.

These kids are THE best kids we have had in our 21 years of breeding and showing our herd. Thank you to Andy and Janet Nash and Jason Overmann for letting OHF take these animals home from the convention in June.

Our next crop of kids are coming soon and are out of our new red caramel buck King Farm Kids Eli. We can't wait for these little ones.

We are accepting deposit on our new kids. We would prefer for you to come to the farm to pick out you next champion rather than blindly leaving a deposit. Our bucklings are in demand, so hurry to make an appointment to get your hands on these muscular and confirmationly correct little guys.

Don't forget the Sun Coast Winter Classic Show on Dec 13th at our farm. Get your entries in soon to make sure you are in the showbook.

Also, I will be conducting and presenting at the first every Sarasota County 4H goat school this coming Saturday (Nov 22). It will be at the Sarasota County 4H office at Twin Lakes Park located just east of I-75 on the Veterans Memorial Parkway (formally Clark Road) Hope you can make it.

Fall Means Babies!

We're back! After a long blog layoff, the Oak Haven Farm blog in online again. Busy days at school and around the farm have kept us too occupied to blog. But here we are again, ready to inform, enlighten and educate.

Our fall crop of kids are starting to arrive. In the past three days, three of the new does we purchased up at the National Convention are giving birth. Two of our new Possum Hollow does have each given us a single girl and a single boy birth. Great looking kids to boot. LomaLinda Farms Charitity dropped twin girls yesterday afternoon before I got home from school. Super looking does; a light grey agouti and a grey agouti with a belly band. Carol named her Panda. We tried to breed all of our does right after the convention to kid in the cooler weather in our part of Florida. And it looks like most of our breeding age does will kid in the next couple of weeks. Udders are getting milk and we are planning for less sleep to be there if they kid at night. We have a baby monitor in the barn and the constant hiss makes it difficult to sleep but it is a trade-off for making sure the kids are born without incident and dried for the cooler nights.

We will toot our own horn over our success at the convention. PGCH OHF Quinton was selected the second best buck in the nation at the National Champion Challenge show (1st runner up) and 3x Grand Champion Possum Hollow Gunsmoke won grand in the first show and reserve grand champion in the second show on Sunday. Our young junior does made the cut on the first day of showing and the young red caramel buck we traded a OHF Fever Pitch buckling for won his class both days. Thank you to all the folks who organized this great event and made it go off smoothly and without incident.

A Pygmy goat show is coming back to Sarasota on December 13th, 2008. The Suncoast Winter Classic will be held at our Oak Haven Farm beginning at 10am. 4H and FFA showmanship classes will be held and a master champion youth showman will be crowned. We will also bring back "Goat Poker" for a terrific prize. And don't for get it will be you only chance to dine on Pork Wings! Come and find out what they are and show a goat!

See you at a Pygmy Goat show!!
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