Quaking Aspen Ranch

Quaking Aspen Ranch is a small 40 acre hobby/home ranch located about 45 miles North of Reno, Nevada.  Here we raise an ADGA , AGS , and NGDA registered herd of Nigerian Dwarf Dairy Goats.  Every spring/summer we sell several members of our herd to responsible people who are looking for this wonderful breed.  We also sell Nigerians which did not make our cut for registration.  These goats still make really great milkers, pets, or even for butcher meat.  

Please take a few minutes to look around, maybe you will find your first...or next goat.  Thank you for visiting! 

Of course!  When you are ready to purchase your goat.  But you must call or email to make an appointment.  We can not accept surprise visits. We are off the beaten path and it takes a while to get here. 

In the boonies.  Check out this photo...  Beautiful Northern Nevada, looking west toward the Sierra Nevada Range in California.

We have choosen the Nigerian Dwarf Goat to raise here at the ranch.  They are a compact breed which are intelligent, hardy, socially inclined, and produce wonderfully sweet milk and cream for drinking, butter, ice cream and cheese. 

While there are other dairy breeds which may give you more milk per day, the Nigerians hold a special place by being a small, friendly, easy going and intelligent goat.... Perfect for the small family farm or yard. With the added benefit of great butter fat milk... usually from 6% to 10%, among the highest for all breeds of dairy goat!

Fresh raw goats milk... It's udderly delicious!  And it's the number one in milk consumption in the world!

They also are a great meat source for those who love fresh meat unadulterated by hormones/antibiotics/chemicals/ect.

(What is the most eaten meat worldwide? Yep...GOAT!)

Male Goat: Buck

Main Breeding Buck: Herd Sire

Castrated Goat: Wether

Female Goat: Doe

Mother Goat: Dam

Young Goat: Kid

Male Kid: Buckling

Female Kid: Doeling

First Freshener: One year old Doe who has kidded for the first time 

Gestation: 145 Days from exposure to birth

Disbudding: Remove the horns at several weeks of age

Polled: Naturally No Horns

We've been doing this for several years and are getting comfortable with all aspects of breeding. We are very pleased with our lines... and they just keep getting better!

Just Kidding! (pun intended)

Definitely.  We are updating as we speak.  On the Herd page, we will have all the information on each goat.

The Does and the Herd Sire's are registered with the ADGA. Several are also registered with the AGS and NDGA.

The Wethers and Does which don't meet our standards will not be registered, they will be sold as pets, freshened milkers or for meat. 

Yes. We have a closed herd. They are tested for common diseases. We have been disease free since we started, and plan to stay that way.

You can see the lines and registration information on our Herd, Herd Sire, and Doe pages. We are striving to improve the dairy qualities of the breed, as all good breeders should.

This is one of the best short articles on raising dairy goats I have come across.  It was published in Mother Earth News by Kris Wetherbee in June 2002.  Here is the link... Want Milk? Get Goats