Fast Facts About Dairy Goats

Welcome to Spencer's Farm! Find fast facts about dairy goats including: Alpine goats, Saanen goats and Nigerian Dwarf goats. Discover the basics in goat care and raising goats.

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We consider our farm, surrounded by creeks and woods nestled in the beautiful hills of TN, an ideal place for raising goats.

We thoroughly enjoy our dairy goats. They have beautiful colors, heroic temperaments and, most of all, they provide the best goat milk around!

Alpine and Saanen goats produce the milk that is used in Spencer's Farm natural bath and body products, including: goats milk soap, lotions, bath salts, face cream, foot scrubs and more! Why do we use goat milk in our natural skin care products? Goats milk offers multiple skin care benefits!

Dairy goats and dairy production is one of the most historical, versatile, and efficient forms of livestock production throughout the world.

Goat dairies can operate on a much smaller-scale, are less costly to operate, and more efficient in comparison to dairy cow operations. Not to mention these goats and goat dairies are much more environmentally friendly. While they are known for their milk production efficiencies, their milk offers health benefits and value-added opportunities. Most producers will tell you no animal is more cute and friendly!



1. Goats were first domesticated in the Zagros Mountains of Iran approx. 10,000 years ago.

2. Goat milk is a major source of milk worldwide. Goats' milk may be drunk by people who are allergic to cows' milk, but it contains lactose, so it is not for the lactose intolerant.

3. The major difference between cow's milk and goat's milk is goat's milk has smaller fat globules than cow's milk, which makes it naturally homogenized and more easily digestible than cow's milk.

4. These goats give three to four quarts of milk during a 305-day lactation.

5. Goats can be housebroken and trained to walk on a leash.

6. Goats will not eat soiled food or drink contaminated water. They like to eat the tips of woody shrubs or trees and occasionally the broad-leaf plant.

7. There are some hornless goats, but most have horns. Some have up to eight horns.

8. There are over 300 breeds of goats.

9. Goats can be trained to pull carts.

Boers, (Full Blood & Percentages), Does with kids, Yearling doelings, and SA Boer Herd Sire

Boer goats are good milkers but are, mostly, used for meat production or as show goats.

Find more information in the Alabama Cooperative Farming News and my Dairy Goat Workshop.

Visit the Goats, Music and More Festival, in Lewisburg, Tennessee, October 8th, 9th and 10th, 2010. This fun country jam festival is named one of the top twenty events in the entire Southeast, USA by the Southeast Tourism Society. Here you will find, fun activities for kids and adults, arts and crafts, goat shows, live entertainment, a variety of goats milk products, food and fun for all! Find a Fainting goats Myotonic Goat Registry, and more! Admission is free!

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