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Francis Creek Ranch (RDR Farm) is located in Ferndale, CA. We raise Nubian & LaMancha dairy goats, Boer goats, Angus & commercial beef, & fancy pigeons.

We've been raising Nubian and LaMancha dairy goats since 2001, and what began as a small 4-H project has evolved into a family business.

07/11/2026

We have 7 ABGA registered purebred Boer doe kids available! These does were all born from November 2025 - January 2026.

Our boer herd, like our dairy herd, is CAE negative, CL and Johnes free (negative blood tests and no symptoms present in the herd).

So if you’re looking for registered kids, from a clean herd, that got a great start in life - look no further.

Pedigrees and more photos are available on our updated website at:
https://www.franciscreekranch.com/availableboers.html

Contact us if you have any questions, or if you’d like to set-up a day to come and see them at the ranch!

07/02/2026

After a fair amount of “discussion”, mostly with Aiden, we’ve finally finalized which LaMancha junior does we’ll be offering this year.

We have one dry yearling and two senior kids available.

RDR Belmont Rainbow
- born March 2025

RDR Teramo Brown Eyed Girl
- born February 2026

RDR Redford Dolly
- born February 2026

If you have questions or would like more information, please contact us and check out our website link below! The LaManchas are listed towards the end of the webpage.

https://www.franciscreekranch.com/availableboers.html

07/01/2026

We have three ABGA registered Boer bucks available at this time.

Yearling buck - RDR Farm Barracuda 2501
- ABGA Fullblood Boer, 100%
- has kids on the ground
- ready to cover does this breeding season
- clean teats and good bite

Buck kid - RDR Farm Kingsley 2505
- ABGA Purebred Boer, 98.5%
- born in November of 2025
- should cover does this breeding season
- clean teats, good bite, showable pigment

Buck kid - RDR Farm Cougar 2603
- ABGA Purebred Boer, 99.25%
- born February 2026
- may cover does for this breeding season
- clean teats, good bite, showable pigment

Contact us for more information or to come view them in person!

Located in Ferndale, CA.

05/31/2026

I only clipped Samba for last weekend, but since Aiden’s goat “Trouble” was along for the ride, she got an udder clip, some showing practice, and an updated picture 💗 By day 2 she was even ready for Aiden to be the one showing her (with some help).

This is RDR Got Bad Habits, affectionately known as “Trouble”, and ironically the most kid friendly, patient, kindest doe in the barn. She’s a 4 year old on her second lactation this year after an extended first lactation. We got two nice AI doe kids out of her and Rachel’s struggling to decide which one to keep and which one to sell. Somehow our LaMancha herd has become awfully monochromatic in recent years… and we’re 99% sure the trend is about to continue 😅

05/30/2026

We went to our first club show since 2023 last weekend at the REDGA Memorial Doe Show, and we had an amazing weekend!!

Deb’s 7 year old doe, GCH (pending) Samba just needed one more leg, so we loaded everyone up and went for a road trip to try and get it for her.

Samba is a pretty special doe, and quite possibly the hardest working one we’ve ever had. She’s definitely set a new standard for the level of production and length of lactation that we expect from our does. She’s milked through for 550-670 days on each of her lactations, and is nearly 450 days into her current lactation already! I wish we were currently on test and had official milk records, but we’ve been off test since 2020 and aren’t planning to start back up.

Samba just showed in the two rings on Saturday, earning RCH in one and GCH and BOB in the second. She also had an honorable mention for Best Doe in Show, and we couldn’t be happier with how she looked in that final line-up of the day.

As our newest pending permanent champion, we’re looking forward to figuring out our breeding plans for her for 2027, and should have planned breedings posted in August. Deb doesn’t have any Samba doe kids yet, so any does will be retained and buck kids will be available.

Huge thanks to everyone who hosted, organized, and volunteered to make the REDGA show happen this year! We had a wonderful time, and hope to be back next year 💗

04/24/2026

And that’s a wrap on calving season for us 💗 Four Angus calves and one Shorthorn Plus heifer. Once we get everyone registered and weaned we’ll have a couple of these available.
Aiden is working on names for all the new calves, and so far “Flash Hundred Yard Dash” is the only one that has stuck 😅

03/04/2026

And that’s a wrap on kidding season for us! 🎉

Our first doe kidded 11/3, and the last one kidded 2/27. After kidding out 13 does (11 Boer and 2 LaMancha), we ended up with a total of 32 kids, 13 buck kids and 19 doe kids, from 6 sets of triplets and 7 sets of twins.

Huge thanks to the families who purchased our Boer bottle kids (we just leave twins on each doe), we appreciate you!! 🥰 And to all of the families picking up their 4-H projects later this month. All of our market goat prospects are spoken for this year, but we will have some ABGA registered doe kids available later this spring, as well as 1-2 ABGA registered purebred buck kids. Please contact us if you’d like to be notified when they’re ready for interested buyers 😊

At this point I don’t know if we’ll have any LaMancha doe kids available, but if we do decide to list any they’ll be posted on our social media and our website sometime in June.

02/19/2026

And then there was one bred doe left in the barn.

This was our first year back on schedule for kidding and calving since Richard passed in 2022. The last few years have been a process, and our goal was just to take on what we could when we could, even if it meant some of the cows and does got a year off.

This year we actually got everyone bred on schedule, our Boer does kidded Nov-Jan, everyone settled, and all the does and kids are doing well so far. It feels good being back on schedule again and having the barn full of does with kids.

Cobra though… she had other plans. I opted for blood tests instead of ultrasounds this year, I just couldn’t get the ultrasounds scheduled during the ideal window for counting kids. So even though we did the blood tests a little too late to narrow down due dates, I assumed she was also bred with the others. Then when her December due date blew by, I thought maybe I had 2 due in January. Then I just figured she had a false positive blood test. Well, it’s February now and she’s officially bagging up. So hopefully kidding season comes to an end for us shortly, and hopefully there’s just two kids in there, maybe even a fancy doe to retain 🤞

So one more bred doe. Then onwards to calving season 💗

01/16/2026

And we’re down to our last Boer doe left to kid now that Aiden’s “good goat” gave him a cute little girl this week 💗
It was our first complicated kidding in a few years, and we’re incredibly grateful to live just a couple miles from our local livestock vets, and to have wonderful small ruminant and dairy vets in the practice.
Aiden is thinking up a magical name for his newest addition, and has been spoiling her rotten and harassing her mom every chance he gets after school 🥰 😂

Address

Ferndale, CA
95536

Telephone

(707) 786-4907

Website

http://franciscreekranch.com/

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