Diamond K Goats
A small family farm specializing in goats with personality
The Goats
We own a small herd of about 26 goats. There is a mixture of dairy goats( La Mancha/Nubian), meat goats( Boer crosses), Nigerian Dwarfs and Long coated fainting goats. The babies are sold for pets and the larger goats are sold for meat. Kids can usually leave here at 1 month old (bottle fed) and are dis-budded before they leave. Prices range from $65.00 to $200.00. A discount is offered for 4-H & FFA.
The goat pictured below is Diamond K's Sweet as Sugar aka sugar. She faints VERY well you can see another picture of her fainting on the pictures of goats page.
Fainting Goats
We have three Fainting Goat bucks. Bedrock's Aries (pictured) is the older buck , he is polled (hornless). Bedrock's Aramis is two years old. He has horns and yellow eyes. He is red and white. The other buck is Buster. He is a 50% Fainter /Boer cross. He is VERY hairy and solid as a rock. He is also polled. His picture is below.
The does are: Bedrock's Suzanna(tri-colored, pictured above), Bedrock's Kandi Kane (long coated), Diamond K's Sissy B (long coated), Diamond K's Sweet as Sugar (long coated & polled), Diamond K's Sassy Pants(long coated).
Do these goats really faint? No, they have a condition called Myotonic. When startled or freightened they stiffen and fall over. This usually lasts for about 10 or 15 seconds and the goat is not harmed. These goats have been know to "faint" at 50% and 75%. Sheep farmers used fainting goats as decoys for predators and just about wiped out the breed. When a preidator would come after the sheep, the goat would faint and the goat was killed instead of the sheep. The breed is well on its way to a full recovery. We belong to The International Fainting Goat Association (I.F.G.A.). http://www.faintinggoat.com/These goats range in price from $125.00 to $200.00.
Nigerian Dwarf
Nigerian Dwarf goats are minature dairy goats. They stay very small and produce about a quart of milk a day. (unlike their larger conterparts who produce up to one gallon a day). For these goats, its all about the eyes. Beautiful shades of blue and loud splashy colors make these goats very popular. Two of our bucks have blue eyes, so , because blue eyes are dominate in goats, most of our kids are born with blue eyes. Our one buck Cisco (pictured) is 
white with a few black spots and ghost spots around his eyes and ears. He throws lots of color and blue eyes. Rabbit Patch Chances R aka Barbossa is our other buck and he is jet black with cyrstal blue eyes. He tends to throw half & half colors and tri colored kids with blue eyes.
The does are: Penny (blue eyes), Ellie (blue eyes), Snow White, Whitey(polled), Blackie (polled), Cruella, Sockett (Pygmy)
These goats range in price from $65.00 to $75.00 with multiple goat discounts.
Dairy & Meat
These goats are bigger than the other goats we sell. 
They are all dairy and meat goat crosses. These goats are sold as pets or purchased as meat goats when they are larger. The prices range from $65.00 to $75.00 for pets and .85 to $1.50 a pound for meat. There is a multiple goat discount for pets only. We belong to The Florida Meat Goat Assocation (FMGA). http://www.fmga.org/
The does are: Amber Lee-Boer x, Fefe- La Mancha x, Daisy- La Mancha x (pictured above), Sophie-dairy and Bonnie- La Mancha x
