Before we were married in 1997 we had a few Pygmy goats, a Nigerian Dwarf and an Alpine. We loved having them, watching them, and breeding them. Back then we just kept them as pets and little weed eaters. Like all of the other animals we ever get I fell in love with the goats. Tinkerbell was my favorite, Colt was too.
We started with two Pygmies, Tinkbell and George, a Nigerian Dwarf, Coco and then came the Alpine, Colt.
Before we moved into our first house together we found a new home for Colt and George and his son Billy also found a new home.
We moved to the new house with Tinkerbell, and her two babies, Ivory and Clay.
After we were in our new house for a while we found a note on the wall of the feed store asking for someone to re-home a whole herd of their goats for them. There was two bucks and around 3 does.
We stopped keeping our own bucks and started either borrowing them or we would get one from auction, use him and take him back to auction a few months later. We did this a few times. We bred these girls for a couple of years until we decided to get out of the goat business and immerse ourselves completely into making little humans.
We didn't have any goats or chickens for that matter from 2006 until 2014 when Ashley was finally old enough to start in 4-H and raising and selling goats.
The first year was like a test run to see how much the girls would like having animals and if they would work hard on taking care of them. Both girls ended up loving having the goats and it was hard for them to say goodbye when it was time. We talked to the girls and asked them if we should get some goats that we would keep as breeders.
They both excitedly said YES!
In 2015 Mystery Valley Ranch was formed with our first goat kids that would be our first goat breeders. Our breeding program started with Pearl, Libby, Cora and Valen.
