We believe good records are important.
When you purchase a goat from us, we’ll provide a full record of their health history.
We use simple spreadsheets to keep track of everything.
Each goat has an individual health sheet, and we also have a Herd Journal for general management records.
See our Management page to learn more about how we care for our goats.
🌟If you would like to print out our herd record sheets for your own use, they are downloadable for free. Please check the print previews and scale as needed for the desired size before hitting “print”.
PDF printable record sheets
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Blood Testing
If you’re new to goat diseases and want to find out more about the risks of adding questionable animals to your herd, see goat health on our Resources page.
*We do not blood test anymore.
Please do your research and understand that many tests cannot be performed with dependable accuracy especially on younger animals, so would potentially be a waste of money.
We keep a pretty closed herd, and are very careful when adding new animals. We do not offer our bucks for breeding services to outside herds, though we may make a rare exception to that rule if there are no biosecurity risks(learn more on the buck page).
New animals entering our herd are sometimes quarantined for a time to watch them and confirm their good health before introducing them to the main herd & we only buy goats from herds we trust with very high biosecurity standards like ours.
We have not had any suspicious abscesses or illnesses in our herd that would indicate symptoms for any of the concerning goat diseases. Since there’s questionable accuracy and reliability of many of the blood tests, we don’t routinely perform blood testing. It’s also become very expensive, and we don’t want to just throw money away.
We are confident our goats are all very healthy and free of disease.
Testing performed in the past
*2023 we purchased a buckling Round Mountain MQ Kedar Quinn and have his dam’s clean test results from the seller’s farm below. (Other goat’s names on test report blotted out for their privacy)
* 2022 We chose not to test this year, and only added one new kid buck from Krebs Farm.
*2021 Aspen Leaf herd Test results below for the Small Ruminant Biosecurity Screen, updated 5/7/2021 Our first blood test showed that our herd is clean; Negative for CL, Johne’s, and CAE.
Aspen Leaf Dairy Goats 