Oak Hollow Livestock
Winchendon, Massachusetts
Our Goats
We raise registered Boer goats. A few members of our herd are highlighted below.
Our Bucks
Our main breeding buck over the last few years has been MUM Trouble. He is an outstanding animal who is double-bred Vlek and Noster. He is a classy buck that consistently throws meaty, fast growing kids. He has two teats, a perfect bite, a level topline and a deep twist. He stands on strong feet and legs and is thickly muscled from front to back. His kids are outstanding and show improved length, width and muscling over their dams. Trouble is now for sale - click here for more information.
We recently added WH7 MAIN FRAME 9B05 to our herd. His sire is 2007 ABGA and IBGA National Reserve Champion, SWE Main Event *Ennobled*. His dam's grandparents are EGGSFILE *Ennobled*, DSM WOBBLES *Ennobled, HMR Sumo *Ennobled and PBL Cleopatra (Kaptein *Ennobled x Frances).
Main Frame is extremely growthy and long-bodied with correct structure. We are excited to see the kids he produces with our best does.
Our Does
Our doe herd consists of an assortment of bloodlines and are structurally correct with excellent maternal characteristics and produce hardy, fast growing kids.
Anna is one of our favorite does - she is a large framed, correct doe with many ennobled animals in her pedigree, including EGGSfile, Sasquatch, Hilltop 16R, Ubora, Tsjaka, and Downen Big 85. More importantly, she produces outstanding, fast growing, heavily muscled kids and is an excellent mother. All of her buck kids to date have been stud quality and excellent examples of the breed. Anna had outstanding twin does this year sired by Trouble that we will be retaining in our herd.
Chanel No. 5 is a substantial, heavily muscled young doe sired by Trouble who boasts ABGA National Champion Pipeline as her maternal great-grandsire. We look forward to her offspring as she enters our breeding program this fall.
Y29 is an extremely growthy doe kid with outstanding muscling. Her sire is Trouble and her dam is Princess, a Klein Tarzan daughter with Keri Rose maternal bloodlines.
Our Herd
Our herd consists primarily of Full Bloods and Purebreds, but we have a few high quality percentage does as well. Our goats exemplify the breed standards and our herd represents some of the best genetics in the country.
In choosing our foundation stock, we searched for breeding programs that emphasized heavy muscling, length, depth of body, strong top line and legs, correct bite and teat structure, and excellent maternal ability.
Our Health Management
For the health of our herd, we vaccinate annually for over-eating disease, perform routine FAMACHA checks and deworm on an as-needed basis. We also strive to maintain a disease-free herd and test our animals for CAE, CL and Johne's.
Our Nutrition
Mature goats are rotationally grazed and browsed throughout the summer and receive high quality hay for the balance of the year.
Kids are offered a pelleted creep feed before two weeks of age and we provide pressed protein and mineral blocks to all of our goats to ensure a balanced diet.
Our Kidding Practices
We breed most of our does to kid from December through February and have had excellent success. Our does birth without assistance or separation from the herd, our kids thrive without heat lamps in often sub-zero temperatures, and all are healthy and happily venturing outside the barn within days.