Nigerian Dwarf Goats
We're a small private farm, located in Hampshire County West Virginia about 25 miles from Winchester VA. We're breeding Nigerian Dwarf goats.
Goats are social animals. They are herd animals. They need companionship and for this reason we will not sell a goat by itself unless you already have goats. We require a $50 non-refundable deposit to hold a kid and the balance owed on the the animal must be paid in full before the animal leaves our farm.
Just because we've listed a breeding, it does not mean we will sell any or all goats. We reserve the right to cancel any reservation, without notice, and retain all or any offspring from any breeding on our farm.
We will have already:
For the health of our herd, once an animal leaves our farm, it cannot be returned. All sales are final. Unless we cancel your reservation, we do not refund deposits or monies paid, even if you chose to leave the animal with us.
Please contact us if you're interested in purchasing one of our goats for 2025. The earliest
they will be available is 8 weeks after they are born.
Our herd started in 2016 with our first goats Sky, her daughter Indigo, and Partner (aka Poe) our first wether. A little over a month later we obtained a our buck Thor, followed shortly after by two more does Cashmere and Hazel. This rounded our herd out to six goats for 2016. Our original goal was to have our own supply of goats milk so in the fall we breed Sky and Cashmere with Thor. In 2017, our heard doubled in size as both Cashmere and Sky had triplets. Six kids total, 4 does and 2 bucks. We've learned so much and yet still have so much to learn. Since then many goats have come and gone from our farm.
We use FAMACHA scoring regularly, as recommended by this video, and selectively de-worm our herd.
We chose the name Elementary Farm because we feel as though we are continuously learning what it means to be a farmer.
She's the real farmer here at Elementary Farm. Always making sure everyone (even us humans) are
fed and well cared for in every situation. She is passionate about learning and making incremental
changes to how we do things here on the farm. Always looking for what we can do next!
In 2005, after months of wearing me down, my wife convinced me we should have some chickens.
"Let's have some chickens!" she said. "It will be easy." she said. In looking back on this
moment I'm now convinced that chickens are the gateway drug to farming.
In 2015, we moved to Yellow Spring West Virginia to start our farm. If you had told me
in 2005 (or anytime before that) that I would one day be a farmer (city boy, software engineer)
I would have laughed out loud and denied it passionately.
Although we do our best to keep the information on this site up to date it is often lagging behind and needing updated as we put the care of our animals ahead of things like updating the website.
See more pictures and regular updates.
