Maggidan's Minis Farm
Breeder of Quality NPGA Registered Pygmy Goats |
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Come
on down the
driveway..... ...keep
coming you're almost
there.... here's
the doe pasture..... Welcome to Maggidan's Minis!
Sir Galahad lived to be nine months old before the last of many mishaps and ailments caught up with him. He left behind two people who loved him and learned a lot about goats in a hurry. By the time he passed on we had acquired the start of our pygmy goat herd. This was all back in 1991.
In 1999 we acquired the majority of the Promisedland pygmy herd, including the 1998 National Champion Buck, NATL PGCH Whirlwind Farms No Boundaries.
In other herds, Maggidan's Minis Blackberry Jelly has won Reserve Senior Champion Doe, Maggidan's Minis Starlette has been a Reserve Senior Champion Doe, and Starlette's son by our herdsire, Lily Valley Pygmies Rockne, Persimmon Hill Eclipse, has been Grand Champion Buck. Winning is wonderful, still, our favorite thing to do is to sit in the goat pasture and watch them run and play. Today we have a herd of about 50 registered pygmy goats. We are striving to produce a healthy, productive, structurally correct pygmy goat true to the National Pygmy Goat Association’s breed standard. We are particularly focused on producing goats who birth easily with minimal or no assistance and who can raise their own kids. Our herd includes quality stock from bloodlines such as Whirlwind Farms, Lynbil Pygmies, Ram Too, Bizzy Acres, RSA, Laurel Mountain, Proverbial Pygmies, PromisedLand, Echo Point, Harper Valley and of course Maggidan's Minis. We maintained a close alliance with the North Carolina Veterinary School. Through them we have tailored a vaccination and worming schedule that ideally suit our goats and their needs. We are a USDA Certified and Accredited TB and Brucellosis Free herd. We are enrolled in the Voluntary Scrapies Eradication program. We test yearly and are negative for CAE and Johne's disease.
This was written in 2001, the story goes on and on.....Visit our Scrapbook Page for highlights in pictures!
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be getting close!
Our
first goat was not a
pygmy goat, but was
a frail and sickly
Toggenburg kid I
brought home from
the North Carolina
State University
Veterinary College
where I worked in
the large animal
clinic.
We
started showing our
goats in 1992 at the
North Carolina State
Fair. We were
hooked! Our
first goats didn't
do all that well in
the ring but soon we
learned what to look
for in a quality
pygmy goat and how
to care for them
through our new
friends in the North
Carolina Pygmy Goat
Club. We got
our first quality
herd sire from Linda
and Bill Gredin of
Lynbil Pygmys.
Crown Royal Was our
first champion when
he won Junior
Champion and Reserve
Grand Champion at
the Hernando County
Fair in Florida in
1996.
This past
year we have been
doing quite well in
the show ring.
Our own Maggidan's
Minis Natalia
attained her
Permanent Grand
Champion status (the
first in our herd
name).
Maggidan's Mr.
Goodbar has started
his run with one
Grand and 2 Reserve
Grand
Championships.
Promisedland Whatta
Charm has one more
win to go with her
near back to back
Grands. 
We
have started to milk
our pygmies and can
they ever
produce! Even
nursing kids, they
give about a half
pound of rich creamy
milk each every
day! I'm only
milking 5 right now
and I'm getting over
a quart at each
milking. Just
think what they will
do when the kids are
weaned! I may
have to start
bathing in pygmy
goat milk just to
use it all.