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Once an avid hunter the Circle K
came about as a result of my wanting to have a safe place to take my
son hunting. From its initial purchase in the mid 80's the
farm, located in Lewisburg, Tennessee, has been a work in
progress. When purchased, the property consisted of woods -
woods - and more woods! Tractors and dozers made headway a
little at a time and after a while we built a small house .
Never one to just let be, we found more and more ideas for our 200+
acres. The building of one barn led to the need for
another. Clearing the land where we didn't want the dozer to
go lead us to our initial purchase of brush
goats.
Not knowing alot about
goats we initially purchased a herd of brush goats to clear the
land. They didn't dissapoint us as thay devoured everything
that got in their way. These guys sure could eat! Over
the years we had to cull down the herd. Finally, we decided to
get rid of all our brush goats and concentrate on raising only boer
goats.
As our interest in boer
goats grew we sought to learn as much as possible about the
breed. Over the past few years we have read books, talked to
people, searched the net, and gone to many private goat shows and
sales in order to learn more about the breed. Along the way we
have been lucky enough to meet some very helpful and
knowledgable folks at the ABGA and IBGA shows we
attended.
We wanted to have the
best possible genitics in our buck and breeding herd to build
on. We originally
purchased several does and a buck with 75% to 100% South African
bloodlines. The bloodlines include: NicoBotha,
TABU and TAMU (both ennobled), African Amos and African
Amy, Burger, Kaptein (ennobled), and LSBG African Arnold.
Included are also genetics from several National and Reserve
Champions. We have made every attempt to purchase and breed
only stock having the massive bulk and show quality features that
are desired by top
breeders.
Since our initial
purchase we have added several brood does with impressive genetics
to our herd. These include Bodacious, Benz, Kalamazoo,
Ubora, and Tri-Quest Tsjaka. Most recently, we have
decided to introduce some red genetics into part of our breeding
program. Our herd includes several painted does with very
nice markings and genetics to match.
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