Cabochon Farm - Zimmerman MN

11/05/2025

What a beautiful spring weekend! The goats are enjoying lounging in the sun and I love the scent of flowers in the air again.

12/04/2025

This buckling from Cabochon DP High Tide 3*M Elite VVVE 88 is available to a milk testing home. 1,300 lbs production , "E" udders and Elite goats on both sides of his pedigree.
Stats for High TIde:
Yearling - 1,086 lbs, 319 DIM
2F - 1,329 lbs, 295 DIM
3F - 2,420 lbs, 613 DIM
Elite four years in a row
Two Elite daughters
PTI21 of 354 (Ranking 22nd in the breed)
FUA 35
RUH 33
RUA 34
MSL 25

Sire is Better Wayz Bodacious *B, whose dam and sire’s dam are EEEE 92 does who have milked more than 1300 lbs in a lactation. His dam, SG Better Wayz Harmony Carabear 3*M EEEE 92, has been an ADGA Elite doe for six years. His sire’s dam, SG Better Wayz Isabelle 3*M EEEE 92, has made the top 10 list for butterfat multiple times and has been an ADGA Elite doe for four years.

Cabochon DP High Tide 3*M Elite (AKA Zoe) had a single buck this year and he is a powerful kid with all the width and substance of bone you’d expect to see in exceptionally strong milking lin…

15/03/2025

Destiny understood the assignment and delivered triplet does by my new junior herdsire IlenesRascals Winning Ticket.🥰 I promise I will try to resist keeping them all for myself!

15/03/2025

Triplet boys for Shiraz! These cuties will be available as wethers.

09/03/2025

Treating harvest animals with kindness is not only the right thing to do from an ethical standpoint, it is also the right thing to do for meat quality. Pre-slaughter handling significantly impacts the quality of the meat - shear force, hardness, and chewiness of the meat as well as the bacterial and Clostridium counts among other measures. Do you know how your meat was handled?

Effects of preslaughter handling approach and aging on carcass and meat quality attributes in goats

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2405844024162081

By prioritizing humane and careful handling of meat animals, producers can significantly improve the quality of meat and carcasses, benefiting animal welfare, consumer trust, and economic outcomes.

09/03/2025

Posting from the kidding pen at 3:00 am with Piper. 🥱

06/03/2025

I’m proud to announce that our Rolling Yearly Herd Average for February is 1,154 lbs. The rolling average is one of key metrics I track for our herd because it’s important to me that our entire herd excels at milk production, not just a few does.

The rolling average calculates the average milk production per goat in a dairy herd over the past 365 days, calculated using Dairy Herd Improvement (DHI) data. This provides a snapshot of the overall milk production performance of the entire herd throughout the previous year.

01/03/2025

GCH Cabochon Amelia 3*M VEEE 91 blessed us with quadruplets again this year! This is a repeat breeding to Better Wayz Bodacious *B. Doe is retained, bucks are available as herd sires.

Amelia is a classically beautiful goat with a Linear Appraisal score VEEE 91 as a six year old topping her four year old score of VEEE 90. At seven years old, Amelia finished her permanent championship and milked 1,091 lbs in 294 days proving she has the longevity all want in our herds.

Bodacious’ dam and sire’s dam are both EEEE 92 does who have milked more than 1300 lbs in a lactation. His dam, SG Better Wayz Harmony Carabear 3*M EEEE 92 has been an ADGA Elite doe for six years in a row. His sire’s dam, SG Better Wayz Isabelle 3*M EEEE 92, has made the top 10 list for butterfat multiple times and has been an ADGA Elite doe for the last five years.

You can see more photos on our blog https://cabochonfarm.com/2025/03/01/quadruplets-for-gch-cabochon-amelia/

20/02/2025

Minnesota schools and school districts seeking to establish or enhance meat cutting and butchery training for secondary students (Grades 6 through 12) can apply for our Meat Education and Training (MEAT) Grant Program.

Apply by April 1, 2025 ℹ️ https://www.mda.state.mn.us/mda-now-accepting-applications-meat-education-training-grant-program

cc: Minnesota Department of Education

16/02/2025

Cabochon WM Himalaya 3*M had twin bucklings for Valentine's Day! ❤️ Both are available and it looks like one of them is polled.
Laya has her Grand Champion Junior leg 🏆and is an excellent milker producing over 1,000 pounds last year as a first freshener.
The sire, Cabochon SIG Marco Polo *B, is the son of GCH Cabochon Amelia 3*M VEEE 91.

16/02/2025

We’re expecting -20 degree temps this week, so we added extra deep straw in our bucks' huts to keep them warm. Straw is an excellent insulator because it traps air within its hollow stems. This trapped air acts as a barrier, keeping the cold out and the warmth in.

10/02/2025

When you vaccinate with CDT vaccine, this is what the "D" is for...

https://www.sheepandgoat.com/_files/ugd/aded98_ea091165baef4d76ae2acc3e3fe3b612.pdf