Bringing Goats Home
Thank you for your interest in bringing home your own baby goats from GMS! We do our best to make sure that all of our baby goats go to wonderful homes where they will be loved and well taken care of.
This questionnaire is designed to help us fill in the blanks in your goat knowledge so that you can know everything that you need to know about taking care of baby goats. We want you to be absolutely thrilled with your new friends, and part of ensuring your happiness (and theirs!) is making sure that you have all of the knowledge necessary to keep your new baby goats happy and healthy.
Please fill out this questionnaire before scheduling your baby goat pickup time. Our barn crew will go over it with you before you leave to ensure that you have all the knowledge necessary to take care of your new baby goats.
Concerned that you don't know everything you need to know? Join our Raising Dairy Goats course!
Join now for lifetime access, no matter how much we add to the course.
What's included in the Raising Dairy Goats Course?
Videos
Not sure how to trim hooves? What about milking a goat? How about drawing blood on one of your dairy goats? Our Raising Dairy Goats course has handy how-to videos to show you step by step how to tackle some of the hands-on aspects of raising your own goats.
Checklists of Supplies
Are you prepared for kidding season? Do you have all of the supplies you need for moving to a new farm? Our checklists will allow you to make sure you're not forgetting anything as you prepare for adding new goats to your herd or starting something new.
Building Plans
Want to build your own milk stand instead of spending a few hundred dollars on one? How about if you need a disbudding box? Our plans for building your own goat equipment are based on our years of experience with goats and are proven to work.
In-Depth Articles
Wondering how to take care of a pregnant goat? How do you prepare a buck for breeding season? What's the best way to neuter your baby boys? Our in-depth articles answer all of these questions and more.
Medication Lists
What medications do you use for worming? How much of it do you give your goats? How do you give it to them - orally? Under the skin? In the muscle? Our lists cover when, how, and how much of each medication to use.
...and so much more
Not sure why you should be keeping records? What plants are poisonous to goats? Why do you disbud goats, and how? This course covers everything we've learned in over 15 years of raising dairy goats, and we've learned a lot!
Become A Goat Expert
Learn everything you need to know about raising dairy goats and more with lifetime access to our Raising Dairy Goats course.
We're The Jonas Family
We've been raising goats on our family farm for 15 years, and discovered early on that our passion was to bring joy to people's lives by sharing our goats with them.
We started with two goats, Sassy and Melody, in 2005. Our herd quickly expanded as we fell in love with goats - starting with their babies, Barney, Cassiopeia, and Draco. Soon, we had a motley crew of ten or twelve goats, and we were thrilled.
In 2008, we learned that one of the goats we'd bought had been infected with CAE, a goat disease, and we had to put down several of our goats because they became very sick. Our family was devastated, and vowed that in the future, we would raise the healthiest and happiest goats possible.
We started over with CAE-free goats in 2009, and our herd has been growing ever since. We now have over 200 Alpine and Nigerian Dwarf goats, and deliver over 300 baby goats every year. While taking care of so many goats is fun, and we love what we do, it takes a lot of work!
