We semi retired and where looking for something we could handle in our older age. We went to an alternative farming at the Bendigo College where we found Boer goats, which would eat weeds such as black wattle and patersons curse and had handles. We listened to Bryan Murphy (Angip) give a talk on Boer goats and decided that goats would be the way to go. We brought our first Boer buck in 1999 his name was Rushmere Toba Impala rpbft0025 nothing special but he was quiet and easy to get along with. Then we bought two does in kid they produced a single doe kid and twin does.

A few months later some does were for sale in Shepparton so we bought three does, one with a doe kid at foot all fullbloods and registered. We sold off the buck kids and kept the does. We used Toba and a buck Barnaby that we had breed . His mother was Princess one of the three from Shepparton she was such a lovely quiet doe and Barnaby was a good buck we used these two for a few years. We had sent one of the original does away to get in kid, she had twin bucks. We put one of them over the does but did not like what he produced at all. So sent him, his twin and most of what he produced to Wodonga.  We soon had forty does.

We converted old cattle yards into small pens and roofed them. We built all sorts of sheds in paddocks because they like shelter from the rain, they always head back to their shelter when it rains. Sometimes we have trouble with wombats or kangaroos making holes in the fences, the goats always find these holes, if the goats get out of the paddock, they just wonder along the road eating through the bush on the side of the road till they get back to our gate and if we have not noticed that they are out, they just come home. Not much traffic around our corner and they all come when called. Our farm is on the side of Mt. Victoria in Lima abit of the Strathbogie Ranges so there is plenty of bush rock and mountain for the goats.

We needed a new buck, so we went to Geoff and Vickie Mitchell and found Edward he had a nice long body not to tall and strong legs. The herd was up to fifty breeding does at the end of 2005. We have not brought in any other goats except for Edward. After the 2006 kidding three of our older original does did not cope well with twins and drought conditions,  now there are forty seven breeding does plus ten young does. At the end of each year there are about one hundred head including kids and that is about all our 60ac, plus leased mountain can handle. We have an old horse Soverein he is at least 30 years old been here for 28 years, 2 brittany spanial dogs ned and kelly, chooks, 2 geese, 1duck and 11 white pigeons.