WindRock Farms

WindRock Farms Small family owned and ran mini hobby farm. registered dairy goats and commercial meat goats.

So happy for our friends at Big Bang Farms and so very proud of Groot as this is his first daughter to freshen from his ...
05/31/2026

So happy for our friends at Big Bang Farms and so very proud of Groot as this is his first daughter to freshen from his first kid crop!

05/25/2026

Looking at our current out of pocket for the year to date ( and we haven't even bought our loads of hay yet or paid to have our own fields cut), it's easy to see why animals have to have a certain price point. We get a lot of " oh, that's too much" or " what's the lowest you can go". Well, Looking at everything we put into them, our prices are pretty darn close to our bottom dollar.
Every year when we do our books for taxes, we do NOT make a profit on our goats. Are we looking for ways to improve on that? Yes, definitely. But as it sits, and this isn't even taking into account our time, what we price them at is overly fair for what we put into them.
If you are looking for bargain bin, by all means go to the sale. Just beware that the sale barn is a game of Russian Roulette. Animals are sent there for many reasons, some just to quickly cut numbers, but others because they have issues. And those potential issues could completely destroy an otherwise healthy herd.
So what are you paying for from a private and well maintained herd? You are paying for years of selective breeding, years of that herd being grown with selective purchases to improve, years of vaccines and supplements to maintain parasite control and prevent dangerous bacteria, years of buying the best hay and minerals and growth feed. Times of heartbreak when your favorite doe doesn't make it through kidding, heartbreak when even the best care can't prevent a hard case of pneumonia. A lot of time, the price being asked doesn't even cover all that's put into them.
So when you are out there asking prices of registered animals with a pedigree full of show titles and milk records from a breeder that has put their lives into their livestock and the price is above your budget, a simple, " ok thank you, I was looking for something in a certain range to start out" is way more polite than, " oh my God are your animals trained to crap gold or are you crazy?" And yes, that particular gem of a comment was used towards us just this morning on a bottle doeling with a very fair number attached to her.

We got better photos of our exceptionally stunning little Lamancha doeling we got from Greta and her husband. Everytime ...
05/22/2026

We got better photos of our exceptionally stunning little Lamancha doeling we got from Greta and her husband. Everytime I look at her I just can't thank Janel enough for pointing me in their direction. Her registration came back and I picked it up yesterday and just love all that older blood on her pedigree.

05/21/2026

We have made the tough decision to no longer attempt to breed for fair market kids on a large scale. Idaho winters can be very unpredictable and breeding for early January kids can be devastating without enough kidding pens and heat sources. We have attempted the past few years to get February kids fair ready but with the prices the kids want to pay for projects, we just cannot justify dumping hundreds of dollars into extra grain to get them to a size where the exhibitors don't need to really focus growing their projects. Can our February babies grow big fast? Yes they can, as 5 bottle babies ( one here and 4 with other people) are all 42 to just over 50 lbs currently. But the dam raised kids that are competing with siblings for milk do grow at a slower rate. We implemented a creep feed area this year and grow feed and a few of them are really shooting up like weeds. Our focus will be to grow most these kids for private buyers and particular holidays as that has always been more economical. We will try and get a few of the excellent moms bred early to have a very limited option of fair ready kids but this will no longer be our focus. We appreciate all the support but had to come to this decision based on many factors, and after losing almost half our boer kids a few years ago in January we have just chosen to do what best for us and the goats.

Current goaties that are available to new farms .. Will add to this main post as we make more cuts as well as making ind...
05/21/2026

Current goaties that are available to new farms .. Will add to this main post as we make more cuts as well as making individual posts. This is strictly to reduce numbers. Currently we have 2 adult does, 1 freshened this year but was dam raised so not overly tame, one didn't settle, and one doeling born 3/6. All 3 can go with or with papers.

05/12/2026

We are down the the last 3 gals of the season due in May, June, and July. This has been a longer drawn out kidding season as 2 were being hard to settle. Hopefully we can get new pictures posted of what is still available in the dairy goats and also we will be having a few boers come available as soon as they are weaned. 3 solid color boer doelings and 2 dairy/ boer wethers will for sure be coming available in June. I believe the 2 dapple doelings are already reserved.

These 2 went to their new home today and I really feel they are going to be spoiled
05/07/2026

These 2 went to their new home today and I really feel they are going to be spoiled

05/01/2026

Will be posting a few more kids we have available after disbudding this weekend and potentially a yearling as well. Then we are just waiting on 3 does to kid and we are done for the season. The last 2 ( June and July) have reservations on doelings so might only have wethers available from them, the one due this month might have a doeling available. Let's see what the counts are! We can see the light at the end of the tunnel!!

Update. This cutie has gone to his new home along witb Prudence's little preemie girl.Aaralyn had kids 2 weeks ago and b...
05/01/2026

Update. This cutie has gone to his new home along witb Prudence's little preemie girl.

Aaralyn had kids 2 weeks ago and before we could even get the post up one already found his new family. We do still have 1 bottle baby boy left available from her. Born 4/18 and doing great on the bottle. Cute as a bug and ready to give out all the goat kisses. Send us a pm to get all the details!

Been keeping this on the down low for almost a month.. we are excited to welcome Meyer's SRVN Kolea ( name pending appli...
04/27/2026

Been keeping this on the down low for almost a month.. we are excited to welcome Meyer's SRVN Kolea ( name pending application acceptance) to our dairy herd. She comes to us from a breeder who has been doing this for decades and really knows her stuff. This Beautiful and elegant doeling is an AI kid from a straw collected quite some time ago and who's sire is now long gone. Her dam has such a beautiful type and a wonderful udder. We feel very grateful being trusted with this girl and we hope we do her breeder proud. Thank you Greta for this sweet lovely girl.

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