Miniature LaMancha and Standard LaManchaReference Goats
These are all animals I have owned but have sold or retired. More reference animals (ones I have NOT owned) are listed in the Reference Goat album on the Facebook farm page. Click on the names below to jump to a specific animal on the desktop site (currently this feature is not supported on the mobile site).
Hefty Goat Holler Storm*D
2015
F1 Experimental (TMGR)
The Workhorse
Storm was one of the first goats here in the holler, brought in as weanling. She's grown up into a laid-back workhorse of a doe! She is an absolutely wonderful example of an efficient, dual-purpose goat. She's friendly, too. Storm stands very close to you if she wants attention, being as polite as possible...just breathing on you.
She is an excellent dam and has kidded easily, giving birth to 11 kids in 5 freshenings, though one buckling her second freshening (triplets) was DOA. Storm isn't stingy with doelings and has given me at least one each freshening, with a total of 8 doelings to 2 (live) bucklings as of 2024.
Storm was the first goat I owned that was easy to milk. Her udder is snug in the rear but seriously lacks foreudder. Teat definition has been lost with multiple freshenings. Despite the physical short-comings in her mammary, she is incredibly easy to milk with especially large orifices - she is what I call a "whole hand milker." Her udder is fairly soft and despite her teats being large, her kids have had no trouble nursing.
In 2019, she peaked at over 4lbs on just once a day milking in the heat and humidity of summer. In 2021, I milked her on no fill nursing triplets at 3 1/2 months fresh, and she easily 2lb and 10oz.
In 2023, I finally had a chance to put Storm on official milk test. Though she only had a single doeling (her first single, ever!) she is knocking it out of the park. More on that once the 2023 testing is over!
She's held up so well, raising fat babies and milking well as far as both quantity and lactation curve. She has excellent hooves and has always been sound despite being cow-hocked. Absolutely love her width and how stocky she is. Shells kids out fast each time and is a great dam. The only thing she's ever had issue with is some nasty ear gunk - her cute little elf ears need a clean every so often.
I always say, if I could clone one doe in the herd, it would probably be Storm. But I'll be happy with daughters and granddaughters and soon to be great-granddaughters, too.
I am very proud to announce that in 2024, after completing her 2023 lactation, Storm was accepted by TMGR as a Native on Production doe! Her highest amount on test was 6.9lb, feeding just a single doeling!
Storm was retired after kidding in 2025 with triplets. I guess time finally caught up with my girl - she dealt with ketosis before kidding and then a bout of ruminal acidosis. It was definitely time to retire her and I am happy for her to live out her days here surrounded by her offspring and relatives.
Milk Test 2023 Results: 10 tests. 316 DIM. 1360 pounds milk.
305 day pounds: 1339
46# butterfat; Highest BF: 5.4% Avg BF: 3.4%
37# protein: Highest Pro: 3.8%; Avg Pro: 2.8%
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Storm with her kids in 2020 - Beryl and Isabella, and her buckling.. Plus baby-sitting the Kinder twins Meadowlark and Magpie. Storm loves all the kids!
The over-the-top photos show Storm this fall (2022) dry and open versus pre-kidding and pregnant with triplets her last freshening.
The udder photo is milked out from 2022. Then the full udder photo is about 3 months fresh in 2023, nursing a single doeling.
Hefty Goat Holler Layla *P
April 1, 2020
Grade Herdbook
She's a Goofball but Easy to Milk.
I was so hoping for a doeling or two from Rhea in 2020! I got only one, but I am so pleased with Layla.
I love that she inherited Rhea's distinctive chin markings and elbow spot but her sire's bright blue eyes. She is a big doe. Wide, long, deep. She's not a doe anyone notices in pictures but she's one of the first to catch discerning eyes in person. I'd like to see better hooves, but they are improvement over Rhea.
Layla is a goofball...sometimes, she loves you...sometimes she runs from you like she's never seen a human before. Who knows why. She doesn't, bless her heart.
Layla freshened with triplet doelings 2022 as a first freshener. She kidded easily and is a good dam but her initial production was nothing impressive for triplets (about 3lb a day) so her kids were supplemented. At the most recent milk test (June), her production improved to 3.8lb a day. I left one doeling on her until August, so Layla was the only one of the three does on test that completed all 5 tests.
PLEASE READ THE BLOG POST FOR MORE INFO ON THE MILK TESTING
Her udder is buttery soft, easy to milk with great orifices but the attachments didn't get as improved as I hoped - they are much better but could use more laterals, still. Her teats are smaller this first freshening, but I imagine that will improve. Her udder is a nice shape and milkable, so that's a win.
2024 - Layla outdid herself again and kidded with large quads her second freshening, two bucks and two does. Her udder is as soft as ever. She loves her babies but she is a bit of a goofball! Her teat size had improved and her orifice is great - she also milks down well.
2025 - Layla was sold to a good friend along with one of her doelings, Heidi, in January. But not before earning her star for volume! She worked hard for it and I am super-proud of her. She tied with her dam for the highest butterfat on a single test, too! Her daughter Klara is still in the herd.
Milk Test 2022: 5 tests; 214DIM; 524 pounds of milk
21 pounds of butterfat; Highest BF 6.9; Avg. BF 4%
17 pounds of protein; Highest Pro 4.2%; Avg. Pro 3.2%
Milk Test 2024 Results: 9 tests 310 DIM. 1091# milk.
305 Record: 1080#
38# butterfat; Highest BF: 6.7% Avg BF: 3.5%
37# protein: Highest Pro: 5%; Avg Pro: 3.4%
Udder photos from Layla's first lactation. 12 hour fill.
GoGo's LoSt Pixie Dust
April 21, 2019
Generation - F2 Experimental
Quirky and Nosey
Pixie, also known as Pixie-Lou-Who, was an impulse buy when I went to pick out a buckling, but I am glad I got her!
Pixie likes to pick fights but is friendly and somewhere in the middle of the herd hierarchy. She sometimes get the sillies and takes off but it is usually a short-lived phenomenon. Her favorite way to visit is to rub her head on you while you do not touch her.
A daintier, more refined doeling, Pixie has gained depth as she matured. She's long-bodied and still full of dairy character.
Pixie kidded with beautiful buck/doe twins in April 2021. In her first freshening, she was productive with a very nicely-shaped udder. Her udder is soft and, while her teats are a bit smaller, she is easy to milk with a decent-size orifice. Pixie was also an attentive dam, and I am excited to see her freshen again.
In 2023, Pixie kidded with a lovely, large single doeling sired by Jupiter. She completed 5 tests on milk test, peaking at 4.4lb and milking 485lb in 128 days. In June, Pixie went to a lovely new home along with dry yearling Zephyr (Duke X Layla). Her daughter Calypso is still in the herd.
Pixie's udder as first freshener (on the wooden milk stand) and as a second freshener. I wish she would have had twins, but her single was certainly large! Teat size improved and she milked down well. The two photos are from the second milk test and the single rear photo from I believe the 4th test.
Ozark Jewels LAZ Star Rattler
May 18, 2022
Experimental LaMancha
Might be an Alien
Along with Penny, I brought home this lovely girl - she goes by the barn name of Nebula. Nebula is a late kid but likely going to be a big girl. She's already long and tall.
She was described as not wild but "snotty" and that was a good way to put it. Nebula wasn't scared of me, she just didn't want me to touch her. To the point she might give my hand a sniff then jump away all sassy.
Eventually, I won her over with the classic Sneaky Scratch method - she found out people could reach that itchy spot on her withers and booty. She's actually pretty friendly now and has picked up leading quickly.
Like Penny (and Baby), Nebula has a distinctive nasally tone to her voice but she is generally quiet. Her face and elf ears are so incredibly expressive and the ears are courtesy of her 1/32nd Alpine ancestry, according to Ozark Jewels.
I think she's going to grow up to be quite level, like her dam, who showed a lovely first freshening udder. Her dam has won a GC as a first freshener, as well. Overall, just a really fun addition and an exciting girl to make a new mini line with!
2024 - Nebula kidded with buck/doe twins in March. She was the youngest to kid this year (she did not turn 2 until May). She is a good dam and her udder attachments are just lovely. Her ff teats are a little slim but all the parts are there! I sold her along with Penny in a major down-sizing. Her daughter Cassi is still in the herd.
P.S. Her name is a nod to her dam and one of my favorite book series.
GoGo's Fauna's Delight
March 17, 2015
F1 Experimental
She's a Survivor
Faunette is a new addition to the holler as of 2022. I haven't brought in an older doe in quite a long time, but her breeder offered her to me, and I thought she would fit in. I didn't realize how well she would fit in!
Faunette survived a very bad snake bite as a youngster and was one of the goats that survived a horrible living situation under someone else's "care" - you can read more about it on the GoGo's herd farm page. It took her a long time to recover and be happy again, but she did. She's one tough girl. I met Faunette again after she kidded with triplet bucklings in 2022 - one of those was my Ted.
When I brought her home, she took her new people and environment and herd in stride. It didn't take long before she blended in seamlessly and was meeting me for her characteristic head rubs. I absolutely love to see this girl playing and running and just feeling good.
Faunette, presumably due to the snake bite, has only one half of an udder. She successfully raised two bucklings on that half for her GoGo family this year. She's some unknowns for me, but what I do know I am pleased with - she's tough, adaptable, and a good dam. Not to mention soulful and loving. She's also the quietest goat I've ever owned, making the tiniest "huffs" when she does talk.
2024 - Faunette required some assistance delivering 2B1D. I lost the doeling to aspiration at a few days old. Faunette initially tried to produce on her bad side but there was too much scar tissue so it did dry up. Her boys were supplemented with a bottle. I did milk her good side a couple times and her orifice and texture are wonderful. She's a good momma and loved her boys but with all that happened and her age, she is now retired. She has no living daughters, which I think is a shame, but she has some sons out in the world, including Ted, who is still a herdsire here in the Holler, and a Jupiter son named Jericho who went to live in Oklahoma.
Hefty Goat Holler Temperance
February 2023
Dam: Hefty Goat Holler Pearl 2*P
Sire: Sunspring's WBJ Churro
Hefty Goat Holler Anastasia
February 2021
Dam: Hefty Goat Holler Rosemary
Sire: GoGo's AqSt Duke
Hefty Goat Holler Ariel
May 2023
Dam: The S. Demeyer Genovese
Sire: Sunspring's WBJ Churro
Hefty Goat Holler Zenyatta
February 2023
Grade Herdbook MDGA
Polled
Yatta is one of my bigger does, both long and tall, still very much an awkward youngster herself. I am curious to see how she matures. Super friendly girl but one of the bossiest in the herd. She hums when she eats and Yatta is a VERY enthusiastic eater.
Zenyatta, barn name Yatta, started off kidding season 2025 by popping out very large twins out in the pasture. I'd actually just given her a sanitary clip that afternoon and had no idea she would be going into labor, much less delivering a few short hours later. Despite forgetting where her newborn buckling was in the field more than once, she was actually a very good dam.
Yatta, unfortunately, was not a fan of being milked. We had a massive spill that really hurt her amount on the second test. We even had sessions of milking onto the ground. Finally, she figured out milking isn't so bad. Additionally, she was dealing with a protein/butterfat inversion three out of five tests. We at least have a complete lactation on record, even if it wasn't showing her best.
Her udder texture is very soft. Her teats are cylindrical and about two fingers and at thumb size. Decent orifice. Her attachments are phenomenal though she lacks fore like her dam. Her teats being so close to her leg made it hard for me to hand milk but once she started standing well and scootching her back legs out, it got much easier. I do hope milk down is improved with a second freshening. I have faith production will be, at the very least.
Milk Test 2025 Results: 5 tests. 224DIM. 628 pounds milk.
305 day pounds: NA Peak: 3.9#
16# butterfat; Highest BF: 6.4% Avg BF: 2.5%
19## protein: Highest Pro: 5.2%; Avg Pro: 3%
Ozark Jewels Be My Baby Sarah
February 20, 2020
Recorded Grade LaMancha
I'd enjoyed following the Ozark Jewels herd for several years before I finally brought one in. I got Baby as a bottle baby, and she grew up with Velvet and Caroline.
Baby's dam is a doe from the late Lujax herd, whose papers were lost, so Baby is grade. Blackie, her dam, is an awesome doe, though, and was my pick for a doeling. Thankfully, she had twin doelings! I love Blackie's udder and her production - she isn't a large doe but was easily giving a gallon and a quart on her second freshening when last I spoke with Ozark Jewels.
Baby here is a weirdo. She does odd things like get stuck on the roof of a vehicle and make stink faces all the time. She has a grouchy streak. She likes me, mostly. Not so much anyone else...she does love a good booty scratch on her terms but you better not doot her tail or she will get you. I can get away with it because I am the "momma" still. She and Caroline are the first to follow me anywhere.
Baby freshened for the first time with a large single doeling. A beautiful, correct single doeling! Baby proved to be a doting (and comically playful) mother if a little over-protective - she did not want other kids too close to her darling girl.
While Baby remains lanky, she freshened with a gorgeous, well-attached udder that is already easy to milk and had zero kick or squirm in her from the first milking on. She was giving right at a quart each 12 hour mark.
2024 - Baby kidded with a single. Again. A big single buckling. She's such an excellent dam (still over-protective - which earned her the nickname Dragon Goat this spring) and milker, so it is hard to complain too much about a single. Great orifice and milks down so well. She got a fuzz lopsided this year. I was consistently kid sharing because he was drinking 4lb and not keeping up. I've finally got her down to once a day, usually, now that her big boy is weaned. She is still milking over 4lb. Even though Baby is a standard, she is not a big goat, weighing in at 121lb just recently. Just one of my favorites.
I sold Baby in a very large downsizing in 2025/2026 since she didn't settle fall 2025. The genetics live on however, as her granddaughters Jubilation, Moxie, and grandson Walle are still in the herd. I hope she does great things for her new owner!
Sunspring's WBJ Churro
April 30, 2020
F2 Experimental
77.87/22.13%
Polled
Churro is a friendly young buck I brought in from Colorado. He was bred at Sunspring Ranch in Utah. He will be a complete outcross, bringing in some new genetics I am hopeful will cross well with my herd. He had some issues with his teeth on arrival but a better diet and time has almost resolved it - he's also grown like a weed, gaining from 97lb to over 120 in just a couple months (in late fall 2021). He's around 140lb as of 2023.
I have had some trouble keeping his feet trimmed as often as I need to, which made his toes splay out a bit from traversing the hillsides. I've about got it corrected, now.
Churro has a long rump and is wide across the pins though I would like to see him more level thurl to thurl. High and open in the rear with a lot of natural width between the hocks. Lots of depth and body capacity.
Churro has excellent production behind him and some lovely udders. Talking with other breeders who own his relatives, including his littermate sister, I am hopeful he will bring in some increased "milkability" - specifically, increased orifice size and soft udder texture.
Polled is a nice bonus!
In 2024, I was happy to see that Churro placed first in his class under both judges in the Spring 2024 V-show and then placed Reserve Sr Buck under one judge! He does have great rear leg angulation, by the way, but you'd never guess from the way he was standing in that photo, the stinker.
Churro was sold in 2025, since I have used him for a few years and retained several daughters.
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GoGo's FaSu Frontier Ted
February 10, 2022
F2 Experimental
65.91/34.09%
I reserved a buckling from a pairing that would bring in some totally unrelated genetics but little did I know there would be three to choose from. With the help of his breeder, I chose Ted as a two day old and brought him home.
He's been raised as a bottle baby. He's grown so well, averaging over .4lb a day average daily gain.
His dam is a first gen doe with a well-attached udder that is easy to milk with nice teat size, plus she's tough as heck, surviving some serious curve balls in life. His sire side is a long-time breeder as well with absolutely lovely, productive animals. His sire, Sundance, has won GC in the MDGA virtual show as well as winning the Champion Challenge.
Ted is so silly right now, torn between being a sassy buckling sparring with the big boys and being an affectionate baby. He's a hoot. It is hilarious how popular he is with all the does - they often bypass the big bucks to beeline for Ted at the fence.
As of fall 2023, Ted is long and lanky! He's angular with a long, level rump. I would like to see more depth - hopefully that will come with age. He's been a perfect gentleman during breeding season and has one lovely doeling in the herd from 2023. (His feet needed a good trim in this side photo).
2024 - Ted really gained some depth! I was thrilled that he earned TWO virtual show legs in the Spring show as Grand Champion SR under both judges.
2025 - Ted went to a wonderful new home where I hope he continues to do great things! His first freshening daughter Banshee is just gorgeous, easy to milk, and very productive.
GoGo's AqSt Duke
April 2019
F4 American
45.99/54.01%
I sold Duke in the winter of 2022 because I'd basically backed myself into a corner as far as breeding - most of my does were too related to use him on. I hope he's doing great in his new home!
He is a super sweet, friendly boy, the first to come see you. It was one of the things that made me choose him as a baby. He has some lovely mammaries behind him and it looks like he's going to have daughters with nice udders. He helped improve some hocking in, too. Nice and wide between the hocks, nice rib spring, tight shoulders, and rump length. While his hooves were nice and solid, his pasterns were a bit too angled, as was his rump. Now that his daughters have freshened (2023) and on test, can say he's improved udders and production! One daughter has peaked at over 6lb and another at over 5lb, and all have been very milkable.
Update - the Duke daughters I've kept have leveled out in the rumps tremendously. He sired my first star milker - Hefty Goat Holler Pearl *P!
2024 - Duke returns! The home he went to for a couple years took AMAZING care of him and I was so happy to have a chance to get him back this summer.
2026 - I used this handsome boy as much as a could again and he found another fantastic herd along with a couple of my Churro x Jersey daughters. His daughters continue to do SO well milking!
Two Girls Flash Me Happy
January 2019
F3 American
54.69/45.31%
Flash is co-owned with GoGo's herd and came to the farm in fall 2024 when she needed to drastically reduce buck numbers. Flash has sired some lovely daughters previously, including Two Girls Ladybug and GoGo's BoFl That Jazzy. As of 2025, I've just used him on one doe but he sired two thick yet dairy kids by Calypso. Lots of escutcheon height on both of them, especially, and good feet and legs.
He's an incredibly sweet buck that loves cheek rubs. He's easy to handle, even in rut.
I don't think pictures do him justice! He's a super solid boy with excellent bone, feet and legs, and lots of body capacity. All photos without the HGF watermark are courtesy of Regina Tervo of GoGo's.
