Registered Alpine Dairy Goats. Milkers, kids, soaps and lotions!

Registered Alpine Dairy Goats

Natural Goats Milk Laundry Soap

Left to right: Jet, Mikey, Ciara, Miley and Alicia in the red coat

Malachai, our Great Pyreneese Livestock Guardian Dog. Here he is about 8 weeks old.

Welcome to Shantara Acres Farm Website! We're a very small farm located between Brookneal and Charlotte Court House in south central Virginia. We adopted a fixer-upper farm and live here with our five horses, 11 goats (except during kidding season when we have quite a few more), an assortment of chickens, two or three dogs, (depending on the day, we've got one who doesn't know if he lives here or across the street, LOL) 4 barn cats, and a mouse or two.

Our main farm product is goats milk soap that we make here on the farm and sell nationwide as well as locally at farmers markets, festivals, and other events. Check us out on facebook for places we'll be. Find us on facebook under "Shantara's Soaps".

Kidding season starts this year in Feb. with Michael being the first due on Feb.3rd, 2012. Check back frequently for updates and don't forget to check out our soap store, after all, that's what it's all about!

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Mikey and Alicia at the water trough.

Ciara by the stove...she was a housegoat for a couple months..tiny, tiny baby.

This is Finland, our wether. Wether's make GREAT companions and pets and will walk with you off lead better than a dog! Reserve your new hiking companions now!

FOR SALE:

We have kids on the ground! All births are attended and kids are bottlefed using goats milk from our CAE tested negative herd. (tested using bio-tracking) We currently have 3 doe kids and 2 buck kids for sale.

We have CAE negative tests for the herd on hand from spring, 2011 for you to see. If you would like to retest before buying, or test a young doeling before you take her home, we would be happy to help you with that.

All kids require a $50 deposit and need to be picked up as soon as possible. I am unable to hold kids at this time due to space and financial needs.

Senior Does
Michalangela has a mystery due date. Bred to Atticus. Kids: $250
Jetaime: Bred to Rhassoul, kidded 2 solid black does April 5. One doe available. $300.
Miley : Bred to KC of Night Sky Farm. Kidded a single buck on March 7th. Buck is available. $150. Miley, her mother, and her daugher have very nice teat size and placement and are extremely easy to hand milk. Buck should add teat size and correct teat placement on does.
Alicia kidded on Feb. 15th with triplets. One buck was still-born. Remaining buck was sold, beautiful doeling was retained.
Holly Berry: Bred to Jonquil, kidded March 10th with one buck and one doe. Buck was sold, still have one doe available. She is a silver chamoisee. $250
Ciara: Bred to Rhassoul and kidded March 19th, one buck available $150, and one doe available $200. Both are vivid colored cou blancs.
Cherry Blossom, FF. Bred to Hans of Nightsky Farm. Kids are priced at $200 if reserved. Prices may go up after kidding.
Ginger, FF. Bred to Hans of Nightsky Farm. Due July 7th. Kids are priced at $200 if reserved. Price may go up after birth.

Milking Doe For Sale! At this time we have one milking doe for sale. Shantara Acres Holly Berry is being offered for sale because we just have too many milkers! She is a solid black doe with a large udder, and smaller teats. The teats are easy to milk, however, she takes me too long to hand milk so I've decided to let her go to another home with more time to milk, or perhaps a machine. She has also had a problem with some dermitits on her udder, although desitin clears it up pretty fast and she is not having the issue at the moment. She is currently milking about 10 pounds per day and is underweight. She does have a more difficult time maintaining her weight than some of our girls. She has great milking manners and wonderful manners in general. She was a bottle baby and is very attached to humans and loves children as far as I can tell, but does not like dogs she is not used to. Currently lives with an LDG and a pen of baby goats. Holly has a CAE negative test from 2011 on hand. $450

Ginger: First Freshening doe. Bred for July 7th kids. I DO NOT guarantee pregnancy, but she does look pregnant and has started to fill her udder. This doe is out of Tempo Aquilla Bold Type and Holly. Beautiful Cou Blanc. $350.

All kids may be picked up within two weeks of birth. If you would prefer to pick up earlier, let me know and I will work with you on that. I absolutely will NOT hold kids past the date a buyer states that they will pick up. If a kid is not picked up by the agreed-upon pick up date, the kid will be offered to another buyer.

Bucks will only be available out of junior does with exceptional mammaries. All buck kids picked up by one week of age will be $50 again this year. I will give you all the info to register them, or I can do it for an additional $17, (or whatever the buck registration fee is this year). Wethered pack goats will again be available. ALL bucks will be wethered at 6 weeks old, so make sure you reserve yours now for a great buck at a super-low price.

All kids here are pulled at birth and bottle raised on un-heat treated goats milk or pasturized cow milk. If reserved, I will start your kid on heat-treated colostrum and pasturized goats milk if desired. (We have been CAE-free from the beginning) They will get free choice hay, grain, water and minerals from birth until they leave the farm. They will be disbudded, tattooed and extremely well socialized.

Ye Old Chicken Hut

Our 4oz lotions

Onyx, our black lab and Malachai, our Great Pyreneese Goat Guardian Dog

Check out our new SOAPS shop at ETSY!

Don't see what you're looking for? Have a request? Not a problem, just shoot us an email at Ladyrings@aol.com or give us a call at 434-221-2382 and we'll do our best to create what you need!