ADGA Plus Member
LA & Milk Testing in 2022, 2023
Clean tested herd
(Last 12/22)
Mike & Tiffany Shoopman
(270) 299-5133
mirikozafarm@gmail.com
A few in our family had issues digesting cow's milk, especially our son who had only known the use of coconut and almond milk. After experiencing the taste of a friend's Nigerian Dwarf's milk and remembering what it was like drinking ice-cold milk with cookies, we decided we wanted to add a doe in milk to our farm of 10 chickens and 3 dogs.
Our first goat was a Nigerian Dwarf and her doeling. A bit of a hasty decision because we wanted a goat in milk, we just bought what we could find. This purchase taught us a few lessons.
!. Nigerians are so much fun.
2. Goats will NOT eat everything. Actually, rather picky.
3. Not all does are created equal.
4. Goats are delicate.
We added our next doe, which was Luna (Daylily Farm Sailor Moon *M). She provided a significant increase in the amount of milk production we were getting and a lovely personality. She left our farm in 2023 to go to work at a farm in a neighboring county. She was definitely that hardest goat for us to sell, but we just felt it was time.
Since then adding Luna to Mirikoza Farm, we have done lots of research, learned new things, made new friends, added LOTS of new goats, built on to our barn (which we quickly outgrew), built a whole new barn, and learned how to raise goats, naturally (for the most part) and successfully.
Mirikoza chooses to raise our goats with the same standards we raise our family. We use as much organic/non-GMO feed and natural treatments as possible to produce the safest milk for OUR kids and THEIRS.
Our goal is to produce high quality, healthy kids and high yielding milk production. We choose to limit medications and not to vaccinate, as we believe that what goes in is what comes out and these chemicals can cause lasting negative effects on the health of the goats.
We treat out goats routinely with herbal supplements and minerals, as well as use the same energy healing techniques that we use on the two-legged creatures.
We test our herd annually. We have never had a case/positive result of CAE or Johne’s Disease nor any suspicious area worthy of testing for CL. The latest test in December 2022 resulted in all goats being negative for CAE and Johne’s.
(270)299-5133
mirikozafarm@gmail..com
Summersville, KY
Green County