There is a buzz going around the barn at the Wittenham herd of dairy goats in Oxfordshire. Kenny, a yearling purebred Anglo-Nubian wether who has been kept to fly the flag for the award winning cheeses made here, has been introduced to his new exercise cart and harness. Of course he is far too young to be put to the vehicle yet, but his education goes up a level now and when he grows a little more the harness will fit and he will go for little walks around the farm fully dressed! As soon as the cart and harness arrived we couldn’t resist trying it on him, and he didn’t turn a hair, in fact was ..read more

Hello all fellow goat lovers My partner and I are new members and I’ve been asked to let you know a bit about myself and my goats.  I keep my goats in a small village near Bath Somerset, on the Cam valley hillside. Goats have been in my life for most of it. As a child we had a pet white entire Billy to clear the land of brambles. His name was Snowy but as you can imagine his beard was not at all white! He lived a long life with us. Then when I had my own children. We took on an Anglo Nubian to hand rear. My children called him Jack. It was a great experience.  He used to jump in ..read more

Both goats were entered into the Golden Gurnsey Club competition. Wendy was thrilled when notice came through to say she had won both first & second places with her girls. She was thrilled. Both Dora & Bonnie have kidded during their lifetime with Wendy & Martin. Dora has produced twin girls and a single girl . Bonnie has also kidded having twin girls too. Photos taken by our secretary Wendy in June 2019 of her two winning goats Dora & Bonnie ..read more

Have you ever wondered why the pupils in goat’s eyes are horizontal? I have always been fascinated by the shape of goat’s eyes. One of the most common questions we get asked by the general public at shows is why are goat eyes so strange? So I decided to share some of the reasons just in case you get asked the same question. It is all about survival: Because goats are grazing animals they have to be constantly alert in the event of an attack. Amazingly they are able to swivel their eyes 50 degrees. They can look up without moving their heads. This enables them to see approaching danger whilst ..read more

Hello my name is Victoria,  I  live with my sister Red Rose and 6 other pygmy goats. The grey and white goat is called Hedd, he thinks he is in charge; he can be grumpy with us! He is a castrated male goat called a wether. Last year Rosie and I were kids now that we are over a year old we are called goatlings. We will be goatlings until we are 3 years old, or until we have our own kids. Our day begins early in the morning when the human wakes us up and opens the doors of our sheds. We all get breakfast of some goat mix and some nice fresh hay- which is our favourite. When we ha ..read more

Mills goat history Our goat-keeping history Neville and I actively kept goats from 1993 to 2006. Most of that time we had a small dairy herd of goats, having had a dairy built and were selling raw goats milk and cheese through two local health food shops. Earlier we just had pet goats. In about 2003 Charlie Bull at a show one day said on spur of moment to try Malibu our big BT milker in harness. She took to it that moment as though she had done it all her life. Likewise her daughter just like mum accepted harness without a qualm. Would that they were all like that.!!- Although over the years ..read more

George Bistransin is retired and lives on three acres in Amenia, New York, 85 miles north of New York City. He has five goats and is training his two bucks and wether to be harness and pack goats. He also has two does and is starting to make goat cheese. Over the years George worked as a Guard at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, a Latin Teacher, a Park Ranger in Boston and Docent. He started Theater Ludicrum and using his own translations, produced the Roman comedies and musical comedies of Plautus as a field trip opportunity for high school Latin students. He was active for many years in the ..read more

I have always wanted goats, having listened to my mum telling me about her childhood, when she had a large white goat which took her to school each day in a cart. Tony, my husband, thought goats were a lot of trouble and refused to have any. My aunt left me a small legacy and I decided to ignore his arguments. After a lot of research I bought two pregnant golden Gurnsey goatlings from Heather Pink in Kent. Pinkybaa Caramel (Melly) and Fudge. Within a month tony was asking why I had left it so long before getting goats!! He was as smitten as I. Melly had twins, Gig, a beautiful kid who was onl ..read more

Flip through the slide show to see some of the amazing goat coats Marion has made from recycled materials over the years. These coats were exhibited at her exhibition in Devon. An amazing display where Marion raised in excess of £500 for the charity MIND ..read more

Sampson and Julian, twin Golden Guernsey wethers born in May 2020, were my firstborn kids. Their mother, Peaseblossom, was one of my first two goats. Now, I can’t comprehend anyone turning living goats, with their huge personalities, into anything as boring as chops and steaks, but I do think that animals should have a job to do in the human world. So harness goats were the obvious solution. I have only kept goats since 2018. That is hard to believe, as it feels like a lifetime! Having retired and owning a house with a little land, I have been able to indulge my lifelong wish to keep lots of ..read more