Our Boer Goat Corrals are home to about 350 brood does and several full blood Boer bucks. We have focused on percentage does and full blood bucks in our breeding program. We pay careful attention to breed character, body conformation and style, and consistency in reproduction. The pedigree is the final thing we look at and we use the pedigree to make the final decision. While we will never choose an animal based on pedigree or ennoblements - we will decline one based on these things. We currently have around 50 fullblood does. You can find information about our foundation bucks and the bucks we are using in our current breeding program on the Sire Corral Page. We've focused on Pipeline and Bo Howdy bloodlines in our stud bucks for our foundation does. Our older foundation bucks include K-204 Pipeline's twin brother, P-132 a Pipeline son out of a Dello doe. After that we added Boilermaker, a Design 19 son, who also goes back to Pipeline.. Our Bo-Howdy bucks includeed BoVision and BoBuck. Other bucks who have heavily influenced our bloodlines are FSE Spirit and Proto-Type. We have doe groups out of both of these bucks. Of these bucks, the only one we are still using currently is Boilermaker. We purchased a new breeding stock buck, Totally Ripped, from Lary Duncan in 2008. Totally Ripped has been one of the most versatile bucks we have ever used, and has worked on every doe we've bred him to. His daughters have been mainstays in our show string since 2008. We also added HUMMER, a buck out of one of our does and Mike Kelly's 901 buck. Hummer is a full brother to Mike Kelly's Smoke Stack. 901 was sired by FSE Spirit who we sold to Mike earlier.
Our newest additions are AABG NBD Maestro, another buck we purchased from Lary Duncan. Maestro is a yearling, born on June 2, 2009 and already has accumulated over 40 ennoblement points. We also added Tailor Made, a young Somebody Son we also purchased from Lary, and now own jointly with Nathan, R1 Boer Goats and Thornridge Boer Goats. Tailor Made has also done well in the show ring as a young junior buck and has been champion already a couple of times.
When we were looking for our first bucks we decided to go with what we believed were "tried and true" bloodlines. Well, as "tried and true" as we could find in an industry in its infant stages in the U.S. So we purchased bucks that had already been used at least 1 season by someone else whose program we respected. We started with RDR Bias who was sired by Ryals N342, and two Downen bucks, K-204 who was Pipeline's twin brother, and P-132 who was a Pipeline/Dello son, and a Bodacious buck. We took these bucks and put them on does we had purchased from Gail Christian, Mike Kelly, Valton Suddreth, and the SistersII. We got lucky - all these crosses worked and we ended up with a core group of 200 percentage does that we blended with the does we purchased for our breeding program. Through the years, we've continued to buy the best does we could find to add to this group, going back to these initial breeders as well as adding both percentage and fullblood does from Erby Chandler, Farmers Stock Exchange, Charles Turner, Marvin Shurley and Paul Payne. We've cut back from the 500 breeding does that we've carried for serveral years, and currently have around 40 fullblood Boer does and 350 percentage does in our program.
We sell breeding stock, show stock and meat goat wethers. Of the bucks we've purchased, "Bo-Vision," "Spirit," "Boilermaker," and "P-132" have been the most successful. "Bo-Vision" sired 3 State Fair Champion wethers, as well as many other winning show does and wethers. Spirit, who is the sire of Mike Kelly's 901 buck, sired one Indiana State Fair Champion wether, many other champion wethers and several champion does for us before moving on to Texas. We have a large group of both Spirit does and Bo-Vision does working in our program. One of the most successful bucks bred and raised by us is Pipestone, who was a trememdous wether producer for Terry Burks.
S & A Farms Champion Bloodlines Percentage and Full Blood Boer Goats Steve & Anita Dahnke 3387 N 1100 E Otterbein IN 47970 Phone: (765) 497-3342 [9-6 Monday thru Saturday] (765) 583-1228 [evenings and Sundays) Email: boergoats@snafarms.com