Welcome to our web site! We hope that you enjoy browsing through and looking at our herd. We live in Deer Park, WA. which is located 25 miles North of Spokane in eastern Washington. We have been raising Purebred Nubians for more than 20 years and have developed a very competitive show string. We, of necessity, keep a relatively small herd of about 35- 40 animals. We have been on DHIR test almost as long as we have had goats.  This year we had our herd appraised again. We have added the Appraisal scores to the information on each of our does and on our new bucks. More detailed appraisal information is available on request.

Our does are uniformly tall, smooth, and show great dairy character. We select for proper udder conformation and excellent dairy temperament. Most does are bred to kid at 12-18 months old and mature slowly. They reach their adult height generally at 3 and finish filling out by the time they are 31/2 to four years old.

Does are vaccinated with C D &T and with Naselgen yearly, BoSe injections are given 3 times per year and Copper Boluses twice per year. Kids are weaned at about 10-12 weeks. They are vaccinated for CD&T at 8 weeks, 6mos. and one year. They are given Decox M in their milk and are fed grain with a Decox until they reach breeding size when they are taken off grain until they are one month from kidding.

Because we are greatly concerned about the continued development of the Nubian breed , we only sell bucks out of does that are of proven quality. If you see a breeding that you are interested in obtaining a buck from please contact us immediately as we only keep bucks that are pre ordered. Please feel free to contact us for extended pedigree information on any of the does or bucks you see here. Anyone wishing to purchase a wether for packing or other purposes, please contact us and pre order. Wethers will be $75 at 6 weeks of age or less and will be raised on our CAE prevention program.

2007 proved to be a very difficult year for us here at Reuel Dairy Goats. In January we lost our oldest and favorite buck. SGCH Ladies Blue CMD Jesse James came to us from Laura Lyles’ herd of beautiful Nubians. Laura donated him to our show raffle as part of our fund raising efforts. Unfortunately JJ was covered with a lovely case of ringworm come show day, and so he resided in Laura and Kent's trailer in isolation. Because of that he had very few raffle tickets in his can. When it came to draw for him they drew my name and JJ came to live with us for a paltry $50. It took 4 months of constant doctoring to clear up his very resistant Ringworm during which time he lived in our kidding pen and became very used to being handled and loved. He started working for us that fall and continued siring incredibly consistent and stylish does up until the week that he died. JJ was with us for over 10 years and never disappointed us.  Our herd is strongly based on him and we have retained a grandson of his out of Miriam.

Two years ago we had a beautiful buck kid born and contrary to our usual practice of banding every buck not pre ordered, we were so taken with him that we raised him with our doelings hoping that someone would want to buy him.  It was not to be and after holding on to him until he was almost 3 months old we decided to give him to a local breeder who was establishing her own herd. This summer I received an e-mail stating that she was selling out of goats at this time and offering to return this buck to us since he had been a gift. I can't tell you how thrilled we were to immediately take her up on her offer. You see Reuel Zephyr's RY Sirocco is out of a JJ daughter bred to a JJ Son.

Later this spring we lost our beautiful, productive and loving doe, SGCH Reuel Zina's JJ Zephyr, to an apparent heart attack. Zephyr kidded normally with two very large and nice buck kids. She did great and was milking a bit over a month when she died. She came into the milk room, jumped on her usual stand and set to gobbling her grain. She was washed and stood quietly while waiting her turn to be milked.  As I transferred the inflations to her she lifted her head, quietly maaed, and dropped dead. We tried CPR to no avail and she made no attempt to breathe nor did she struggle. Needless to say we were devastated and it was difficult to return to the barn for chores for the next several weeks. Having Sirocco back is a double blessing to us as he is one of only two surviving Zephyr sons.

We then entered, prepared the show string, made preparations and loaded up and headed for Gillette WY for the National show. We were looking forward to seeing old friends, making new friends and participating in the National Show. Well, apparently it was not to be as we had a lot of trouble with the truck overheating and had to return home after getting a few hours of sleep at the fairgrounds in Bozeman, MT.

Well, we will be glad to say good bye to 2007 and hello to 2008. We have been breeding the does and hope to have everyone kid by the Middle of May. We are excited about the possibilities in this year’s kid crop and are looking forward to seeing some daughters out of Sirocco and Micah as well as watching our Expressway daughters mature. We are very happy with Expressway’s daughters so far and expect great things from crossing them back to our Jesse James sons.

           

We will have some very nice show quality and family milker yearling and two year old does, as well as a few aged does for sale in the spring. All kid prices listed are for pre ordered kids that are picked up at 6 weeks or younger. Please E-mail or call (509)276-6207 to let us know your needs.

Please contact us to reserve your kids now. Also, check out our For Sale page.

 

All does and pre ordered bucks and wethers are raised on heat treated colostrum and pasteurized milk.

All kid prices listed are for pre ordered kids that are picked up at 6 weeks or younger.

We give a discount to herds on milk test, youth in 4-H or for multiple purchases.

Thank you for your interest in Reuel Dairy Goats.
Feel free to e-mail any questions that you might have.

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