04/08/2023
Happy 12th Birthday Penny Lane!! Looking great girlie.
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Raising healthy, show quality, ADGA Registered American Alpine dairy goats. Welcome to Cartroad Farm! I have been breeding and showing ever since.
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My adventure with goats truly started in 2001 when i recieved 2 goats for my 9th birthday. I enjoyed taking care of them very much and soon became involved in The Caprine Kids 4-H club. After leasing a Nigerian Dwarf for a year, I decided I wanted a larger breed for myself and in 2006 my family purchased 2 ADGA American Alpines from Kerstrat Farm (Cookie and Stella). The goats are first and forem
ost our dearly loved pets, however I keep a small herd, breeding with conformation and quality in mind. we freshen about 1-3 does each spring and occasionally have to make tough cuts to keep herd numbers at a comfortable place. Each year we have a small number of kids/ adults available and will only place them in the best homes where they will be cared for. If you are interested in our goats or farm feel free to send an email, message, or call . :)
06/17/2022
We were so busy this weekend I shamefully neglected to do a very important Birthday post.
Happy 14th!! Birthday on 6.13.2022 to Cartroad Roscoe Cinnamonbun.
Born in 2008 while I was still in high-school!! A part of triplets from our first registered Alpine doe, Cookie ( rip)
At this age, she is definitely an older goat but maintains as herd queen with her Daughter Penny ( 11yrs) over the herd all the way down to her great-great-great granddaughters.
04/10/2022
Penny Lane just celebrated her 11th birthday on the 8th. Neely, who was our last bottle baby, just turned 2, and Black bird turning 5. Others are in the barn since its muddy and chilly after yesterday's rain.
12/26/2021
We are posting 3 wethers that were bred and born on our farm and have been living a good life as pets at their home in Sutton MA. Born in 2017, at 4 years old, the trio ( twin brothers and another) are in search of a new home. Friendly, raised with 3 children, would be nice 4H projects, family pets, or companions.
Have had regular vet checks and no current health concerns. 2 pictured below, you can just see the side of third one with his white belly spot.
06/27/2021
How does goat math work again..... 6+1= 5? Right? Today we added back Black Bird. She is joined our other adult retired/pet herd. She looks great and was very loved and cared for at her home. What one more? Lol
We also have two dry yearlings that were never shown last year and will be deciding if/ when and how to go about moving them along since they are young with potential before they miss freshening at 2 year.
We as a farm are taking a break from breeding while life has started new chapters that don't quite allow us to enjoy our girls anymore than as pets to care for love.
06/14/2021
We were so busy this weekend we missed 6/13 without even knowing the day.
We send a belated Happy Birthday to our eldest doe, Cartroad Roscoe CinnamonBun who turned 13 years old on Sunday. She still stands herd queen over her daughter Penny who is 10. Xoxo Cinnabutt.
04/04/2021
Cinnamon wishes everyone a Happy Easter Sunday 🐣 🐐🐇🌷
02/01/2021
Hello All!!! We have seen some new followers for our page, which is great!.
I would just like to make a newer- official post ( and hope to have a moment to change our website to reflect this) but for the first year since 2006-07 when we started breeding register American Alpines. We have not bred any does for 2021 babies.
It was tough to skip all the heat cycles and avoid looking up pedigrees and dreaming about what color and type of kid might come from our lovely does. Since Covid 19 started and shows were missed, life has taken a new direction for us and we are not able to focus on breeding and showing and managing the herd like we used to.
Currently we have 3 retired does Cinnamon-12yr, Penny Lane - 9y, Clarabella - 7y. A beautiful 3 going on 4 year old that we are sad to keep dry but just couldn't let go off- Anna Belle. We have 2 dry yearlings Molly Jones and Cam Neely ( pitcured) who may or not make it to a show but it is currently doubtful unless Covid Climate changes and we have the time. They also would be the only 2 we picture selling potentially later this year.
We have had a pretty good run at the quality of kids we have produced, the wonderful folks who got us started and taught us so much. Heck we even produced a few champions and pretty nice studs.
01/23/2021
My girls. We are keeping warm with lots of hay and filling buckets every morning and night. Their wooly coats are nice and thick this year.
12/06/2020
The girls are out this morning after being shut in all day due to poor weather. The 8 month old doelings were feeling frisky
09/26/2020
Neely for attention
Cartroad Farm would like to make a formal announcement: we have down sized our herd quite a bit over the last year. 2019-2020 was a difficult and trying year for us. We have made the decision that we will NOT be breeding our senior doe we currently have and will not be having 2021 kids. We retained 2 2020 doe kids, Neely pictured below who was out of our late doe, Tuukka, and also retained Molly Jones out of our 3yr old doe Anna Belle. We plan to keep them into the winter.
We currently have many things keeping time restricted to manage the larger show herd we had in the past and we reevaluate next spring.
Thank you to the families that bought our 2 bucklings this year, and to all those who provided homes for our bucks, werhers, and does over the last 15 years. 🐐
07/28/2020
**** PSA from our farm and family. ****
The word farm may bring to mind an open public place to stop in and see what is available for stock or food and business however, most "farms" are private residents such as ours can not accommodate drop in visitors- we like the privacy of our property. Dont forget we are in a PANDEMIC and have even minimized contact with those are customers scheduled to purchase. Please refer to our website and photos on this page to view the herd. We so not have any animals for sale this year. At all. No discussion. We appreciated email and phone call but we are busy and will return your call when we can. Thank you
07/12/2020
Cleaned up outside today. The Sundgau team / Anna Belle, daughter Molly Jones and cousin Cam Neely enjoyed some browse and some snuggles
Promise by the end of the month we will be getting update, more professional photos and update the website too. No shows this year has given some needed quiet time.
07/04/2020
The girls were apparently working out some hierarchy issues this morning. Reminder to self- watch out when 4 150+ # goats are shoving each other down hill towards you. 😅
Happy Independence Day to all 🇺🇸🏡🎆🎆🐐🐐
07/03/2020
The last buckling has left. Cartroad CSFS Bobby Orr has moved on to his home in NH to be herd sire for a small homestead.
Our farm is down to all does and just 6 total.
06/28/2020
Cinnamon, our oldest doe and long standing herd queen spend some down in the pasture with her great great grand kids and checking out the horses. For 12, she is looking good for dry retired doe
06/20/2020
Milked Anna Belle just a bit ago ~445pm. She has been nursing twins and with no shows we haven't exactly made it a point to periodically pull kids over night to track production/ prep for pre-show nights. I have been milking out what ever she has to offer ( usually 8oz. +/-) twice a day to supplement feed Tuukka kids. I did exactly that at 830 am today, and one of her twins left late morning at about 1030am. We are assuming by the result I had at tonight's milking that Anna is one of those moms that either feeds them all or none 😄 which is fine as we are at weaning ages. So with at most only 8 hours of milk- maybe less since she had both kids with her until 6 hours ago Anna was plump with ~5 # according to our spring hanging scale and filled the 1/2 Gallon mason jar and then some. The coming days will be a true test to see exactly how capacious this 2nd freshening 3year old is. We are very happy with this home bred doe. 🐐🥛
06/20/2020
Little Baby Desmond Jones has departed to his new home today. Thank you Marni Zelnick for providing a good home. And Thank you to our Friend Jocelyn Childers of Lucky Acres Farm for your wether, our two boys will make a nice pair.
06/14/2020
With how crazy busy the days have been, I lost track of the date, and would like to make a belated 12th birthday post for our oldest doe Cartroad Roscoe Cinnamonbun. She is the only daughter of our late foundation doe, Cookie, so in a sense, Cinnamon is a founding dam of our current herd by default. As beautiful as ever as an old lady 6.13.2008
06/11/2020
The little nuggets are getting big. Almost 50 pounds and just turning 9 weeks and 10 weeks old. The boys are sold and will be leaving in a few short weeks. For now we are retaining the doelings, Neely and Molly.
05/25/2020
Candids while in the yard
05/24/2020
We feel our kids do very on a partial diet of Diet Coke...... 🙃😉
Just kidding. But we do like the recycling of the soda bottles which are easy for us to obtain, use different sizes, the ni***es fit over well, and I can prefill them with covers in the refrigerator if leaving meal time to someone other than myself.
05/22/2020
Candids quick this morning
We hope to get everyone washed and body clip the big girls for some virtual shows potentially as it looks like our usual show schedule will be minimal to non existent this season.
We Unfortunately lost our 2 year old doe, Tuukka last weekend, cause is being looked at by the big hospital, our suspicion is potential toxins as she was doing so well prior to suddenly being a very sick goat. Everyone else, thankfully, seems great and happy as always. Tuukkas doe kid- "Neely" will most likely be retained, her son, "Bobby" aka Bucky Orr, has already been held by deposit.
05/10/2020
Happy Mothers Day to all the does who give us the cute little babies year after year, gallons of milk, and lots of love.
Happy mothers day to all the Human moms who watch over all the farm, and also the human Kids. 🥰🌷
05/04/2020
Happy Birthday Tuukka.
Our last daughter out of Sadie before she passed this winter.
Tuukka is a 2 year old FF who had little sundgau triplets ( 2 surving) like she was with her two brothers, Charlie Macavoy and Chara.
Carrying on the Bruins Babies theme she snuggles with her own kids, Bobny Orr and Cam Neely 🖤💛🖤💛🖤
04/26/2020
Candids of out little troops. Serious need to color code this year. Funny, we got into Alpines for the surprise of colors.
All these kids were sired by a broken chamoise buck. Both dams are sundgau.
"Bobby orr" sold.
Desmond for sale
The does retained for now
04/17/2020
We had a short and sweet 2020 kidding season.
Tuukkas pair is now 3 weeks old, and Anna's are 2 weeks today. Though born a week apart, they were due on the same date and are the same size.
With everyone being a sundgau, there was a bit of confusion during the first intro meetings of kids and dams but they are all doing great. Disbudding is done, tattoos will follow.
The doeling papers are being filed. Bucks will most likely be sold as a wether pair.
No shows lined up yet due to Corona virus, but photos of the dams will come in time
04/12/2020
Wishing everyone a happy and safe Easter Sunday from our farm family to yours
04/11/2020
We let the kiddos and dams out today with the whole herd to get some silliness out.
Neely💛
Bobby🖤
Desmond 💙
Molly💟
We will have the 2 bucklings available and most likely on of the girls.
04/03/2020
Cartroad Bubs Anna Belle kidded with B/D twins late this afternoon. All are doing well
Also sired by Cedar Swamps Farm KVSJ Seamus .
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