Bella Vita Canyon

Bella Vita Canyon Breeder of San Clemente Island Goats

My 2 bucklings are growing up! They got their CDT booster shot this morning and their first hoof trim. So cute! They wei...
05/26/2025

My 2 bucklings are growing up! They got their CDT booster shot this morning and their first hoof trim. So cute! They weigh about 12 lb, estimate. Beautiful coats, perky, really didn't want to get shots or trimmed, but persisted through it, each one. I need new photos!

Continuing my Herd Introduction, here is Bella Vita's Veloce. She is 2 years old, has gorgeous coloring from her sire, P...
04/30/2025

Continuing my Herd Introduction, here is Bella Vita's Veloce. She is 2 years old, has gorgeous coloring from her sire, Prodigy Farms Pelle aka Flash, and her name is Italian for "flash". Chiara is her first kid, and she's a very good mother. She is 90.7% New Hampshire. Also pictured here is her doeling, born March 5, Chiara. Veloce's sire is Flash, dam is Lucky Clover Isabella. Chiara is 82.9% New Hampshire line, and her Pedigree is also included here.

Continuing my Herd Introduction, here is Diamond J Farm Pearl, the herd queen. She is 6 years old, has great conformatio...
04/29/2025

Continuing my Herd Introduction, here is Diamond J Farm Pearl, the herd queen. She is 6 years old, has great conformation in my opinion, and has 2 teats and is a perfect mother. She's a little chunky right now after kidding. She is 50% New Hampshire. Also pictured here is her buckling, born March 21, DaVinci. His sire is Flash, from whom he has that beautiful red color. He is 68.8% New Hampshire line, and his Pedigree is also included.

This is Bella Vita's Valentino. He is 3 years old and is 75% New Hampshire line, as well as 18.8% Tepper. He has been ge...
04/29/2025

This is Bella Vita's Valentino. He is 3 years old and is 75% New Hampshire line, as well as 18.8% Tepper. He has been getting lighter in color the older he gets. This year he sired his first doeling. His lineage has many stellar New Hampshire ancestors, and I'm very glad to have him. (Side note: You may notice that his sire, Cabrillo was bred to his dam, Charlotte. I was advised to do this by 2 genetic experts, in order to help preserve the genetics in his great great granddam, Haystack's Beauty, because there are no other recorded surviving ancestors from Beauty, except for Valentino's dam, Little River Charlotte's Daughter.) Both he and Flash have calm natures and are wonderful bucks. (not for sale)

I would like to introduce you to some of the goats on my mini-farm! This is Prodigy Farms Pelle aka Flash, doing his For...
04/29/2025

I would like to introduce you to some of the goats on my mini-farm! This is Prodigy Farms Pelle aka Flash, doing his Formal Buck stance. He is 5-1/2 years old and is 87.5% New Hampshire line, currently the highest % NH living buck. He sired a number of kids, mostly doelings, for me, and he sired some while on loan to Denise Fugate 3 years ago (herdname Success Valley). Only one that I know of has inherited any white, and she has a white flash like his, born in 2023 to my doe. Her name is Bella Vita's Veloce, a near replica of her sire. (not for sale)

Sharing a cute photo of Chiara. She's 1 week old now, and wants to know what to do with this green stuff! She's 82.9% Ne...
03/13/2025

Sharing a cute photo of Chiara. She's 1 week old now, and wants to know what to do with this green stuff! She's 82.9% New Hampshire line and will be looking for a permanent home in June. She's grand daughter of the famous Felicity.

Welcome to our first 2025 kid! Bella Vita's Chiara, doeling from Bella Vita's Valentino x Bella Vita's Veloce. A single ...
03/08/2025

Welcome to our first 2025 kid! Bella Vita's Chiara, doeling from Bella Vita's Valentino x Bella Vita's Veloce. A single birth to a first-time freshener, went quickly and without a hitch.

We have 3 does pregnant and due in March! Pearl and Magpie  definitely look pregnant, getting wide (not in these photos)...
02/20/2025

We have 3 does pregnant and due in March! Pearl and Magpie definitely look pregnant, getting wide (not in these photos). The 3rd, Veloce, does not look pregnant but her blood tested positive! She's the tricky one, and the first one due on March 4th. I'm excited to have baby goats arriving soon.

01/27/2025

I've used Medicine Mountain for transporting a rare breed of goats myself 2x, plus worked on moving 13 goats from Oregon to VA with them. They always arrive in a timely manner with healthy goats and animals. They are right now in desperate need.
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Happy Halloween!
10/31/2024

Happy Halloween!

It's Heritage Breeds Week! Photos are selected images of my San Clemente Island Goats, and my Mottled Java chickens.
05/23/2024

It's Heritage Breeds Week! Photos are selected images of my San Clemente Island Goats, and my Mottled Java chickens.

Little Solare (Italian for solar) is learning how to do a selfie! I told her she needs to stay farther from the phone......
04/19/2024

Little Solare (Italian for solar) is learning how to do a selfie! I told her she needs to stay farther from the phone...πŸ˜πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‰

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Bella Vita’s San Clemente Island Goats

Located on the Central Coast of California, halfway between Los Angeles and San Francisco, we are a small family farm in a beautiful canyon 6 miles from the Pacific Ocean.

Our San Clemente Island Goats are a critically endangered livestock breed. There are less than 800 in existence. They ran feral on San Clemente Island for a over a century, and they offer rare and unique genes that are an important part of our agriculture heritage. They are small, deer-like, and have kind and gentle dispositions. We are conservation breeders. That means that we are trying to preserve the largest possible amount of variety in the gene pool, rather than breeding for specific traits, which is the opposite of that.

You can read more about them at the Livestock Conservancy website, click here.

They are registered with the International Goat, Sheep & Camel Registry (igscr.com). Our goats are CAE, CL and Johne's free.