Kato En Farm

Kato En Farm Breeding profitable Cashmere and Kiko goats in central New York. We offer goat meat, breeding stock, cashmere fiber, and farm tours.
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"I will never do fiber goats. They're too high maintenance." I keep hearing this about Angora goats but I have not found...
06/19/2026

"I will never do fiber goats. They're too high maintenance."

I keep hearing this about Angora goats but I have not found that to be the case for cashmere goats.

Let me level with you guys for a second.

I'm a mom with 3 young children (soon to be 4) a fulltime job, plus the farm. I would not be able to have 100 of these goats running around an unimproved property in New York with:

* no barn, just a couple of sheds and bushcraft shelters
* no pasture,
* no guardian dog,
* no rotational grazing
* a bunch of poisonous plants everywhere
* no regular deworming
* minimal hoof trims
* barely any grain
* meningeal worm threat every year
* having started with literally 0 experience.

And yet, despite our low key management, we haven't had any adult cashmere goats die in nearly 4 years and they give us thousands of dollars in fiber, meat, milk products, and kids.

Not all "fiber goats" are built the same.

06/17/2026

Got brush with huge thorns? Goats can take care of that! It’s amazing that they can eat this without getting injured.
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06/16/2026

Isabella would like to know what happened to her other baby. Her buckling officially left the farm today as a beloved pet wether. She has been looking for him for over an hour and she is finally settling down.

This is the humble start of a much bigger journey… to make a cashmere sweater from my own Cashmere Goats’ fiber! I’m sti...
06/16/2026

This is the humble start of a much bigger journey… to make a cashmere sweater from my own Cashmere Goats’ fiber! I’m still very much a beginner spinner. This is a handspun, medium weight, worsted yarn made from 0.1 ounce of cashmere. I was able to make 20ft of this 2-ply medium yarn with that little bit of cashmere. Definitely could get more length out of it if I could spin thinner but this is already a big departure from the chunky yarn I’m accustomed to.

Why do we leave hay out for our goats even in the summer when there is so much vegetation for them to eat? We do this to...
06/14/2026

Why do we leave hay out for our goats even in the summer when there is so much vegetation for them to eat? We do this to prevent toxicosis.

In theory, we have enough land to support the numbers we have *but* our land is unimproved, with many wild weeds that are potentially toxic to goats. We know our goats eat these toxic weeds, in limited amounts. We always give them a safe forage alternative so they don’t eat lethal amounts of the bad stuff.

So far this seems to be working and so we continue this approach. This works better for us over trying to rip out every toxic thing on our property.

Here’s one buck kid that we’ll be keeping intact. He doesn’t have a name yet but we really like him. He is the twin of t...
06/13/2026

Here’s one buck kid that we’ll be keeping intact. He doesn’t have a name yet but we really like him. He is the twin of the brown doeling that we call “Corndog” aka “Chicken nugget” aka “Pork Pistol.”

His dam, CFC Gilly is one of our smallest does weighing only about 90-100lbs. This made us not want to keep any bucklings from her but this guy is changing our minds. Despite her small frame, Gilly is an excellent cashmere producer and very hardy. She raised her twins almost entirely on forage and they’re about 45lbs each at 3 months of age. Not only are they nice size kids but they’re sweet tempered as well.

06/13/2026

One of Abilene’s bucklings has been giving her sass and she is not having it! Perhaps she feels it’s time for him to graduate, move out, get a job, and a mortgage 🤣

Silver Belle with her 3 month old buckling. He’s about 50lbs and big enough to be weaned, move out, get a job, and a mor...
06/13/2026

Silver Belle with her 3 month old buckling. He’s about 50lbs and big enough to be weaned, move out, get a job, and a mortgage. He’s had almost no grain by the way. It was all Belle!

06/11/2026

Silver Belle is a bad influence. She took 2 babies (not hers) for a walk on the wrong side of the fence.

Good thing she remembered where home is. Goats have remarkably good geographic memory because their wild ancestors needed to remember where food, water, and shelter is over large areas in order to survive.
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South New Berlin, NY

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Friday 12pm - 3pm
Saturday 9am - 3pm
Sunday 9am - 3pm

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