Welcome to B4 Boer Goats, nestled outside of Hillsboro, Indiana. We are conveniently located off I 74. We are successfully breeding quality breeding stock, both fullbloods and percentages. With our increasing numbers, we are unable to provide pictures of all our stock. If you are looking for something in particular, please contact us as we have stock available year round. Email or call to set up a time to visit, we would enjoy showing you around.
Thank you,
Steve, Shelly, Heather and Jordan
PUPPIES HAVE ARRIVED!
Ernie, our wonderful Pyr from Ernie Haire, and one of our twin females have 9 pups on the ground. We are taking orders for pups. I am letting Jordan make them their own page on our website, so you can watch them grow. They all have badger markings on them, right now.
Reserve your pup today! Two are already reserved! Won't last long. Will be raised in the barn with the goats.
Check back for their own page and prices. We will be traveling the midwest this spring to shows and sales and can help with delivery.
4-H REWARD PROGRAM:
We will be offering a reward program this year. It is our way of thanking the 4-Her's and their families for their hard work with our goats.
Champion or Reserve Champion county level - $25 certificate for goat purchase the following year Champion State level - $50 certificate for purchase the following year Reserve State level - $25 certificate for purchase the following year
Requirements:
1. The goat must stay in the original purchaser's name. If it is resold before or during fair season, program is void. 2. Submit a picture of 4-Her and goat with award, county, state and name of judge 3. Have award won submitted within 45 days of show.
This program is valid for any doe or wether purchased from B4 Boer Goats or R1 Boer Goats.
11/5/2007: Our fall kids are here and looking good. View our "Just Kidding" pages to get a peek at Trash Talk babies.
Congratulations Jordan Beisecker
Reserve Premier Wether Exhibitor
Ohio Meat Goat Association Wether Series
and Taylor Jordan - 5th Overall Wether Exhibitor
Steve and I would like to extend a congratulations to all that were involved in the OMGA wether series. We have been involved in at least one show each year over the last 5 years. The board members have put together a special program with a GREAT group of kids. The quality of wethers have accelerated so quickly in Ohio thanks to their series. We have had the opportunity to make some special friends thanks to their program. I personally would like to thank all that chaired a show this season. All shows were ran good and there were great turnouts.
Congratulations to Ohio on the continued support of the future of our industry.
** Great kids make good animals GREAT!
For those of you addicted to goats, please enjoy.
Something Fun
A new and serious goat disease has been identified, probably caused by a virus among goat-owning people. It apparently have been in existence for a considerable amount of time but only recently anyone has identified the disease and begun to study it. It is called the ACQUIRED CAPRINE OBSESSIVE SYNDROME (ACOS). At first ACOS was originally considered to be psychological in nature, but after the two young researchers here suddenly decided to become show breeders, we realized that we were dealing with an infectious agent. Epidemiologists here have identified three stages of this disease and typical symptoms, and they are:
A: YOU HAVE EARLY SYMPTOMS (STAGE I) IF: 1. You think that any show within 300 miles is near by. 2. You begin to enjoy getting up at 5 a.m. to walk and feed goats. 3. It's fun to spend several hours a day grooming goats 4. You think you are being frugal if you spend less that $3,000 a year in shows. 5. You can't remember what it is to just have one goat.
B: YOU DEFINITIVELY HAVE THE DISEASE (STAGE II) IF: 1. Your most important factor when buying a truck is how many goats you can fit in. 2. When you look for a house, the first thing you think of is how many goats you can keep on the property! 3. Your goats feed bill is higher than your family's. 4. You have no money because of owning goats. 5. You have more pictures of the goats than your family. 6. You even like buck's smell! 7. Your idea of a fun vacation is to hit a show circuit or go to a goat event! 8. Most of your conversations revolve around GOATS! 9. The words "Nationals" and "Royal" can send you to an uncontrollable frenzy! 10. You know each goats name's, pedigree & date of birth but can't remember your own! 11. You spend all your free time on Internet to look at goat's website, simply because it isn't enough to see goats everyday just at chore time!
C: YOU ARE A TERMINAL CASE (STAGE III) IF: 1. You wake up in the morning and find out that you put the children in the pens and the kids in the bed last night. 2. Your neighbors keep insisting that those kids running around your house bothering your goats are yours!!! 3. You cash your kids college funds to buy a new buck! 4. You've been on the road showing goats so long that you can't remember where you live! 5. You buy goats that are more expensive than your car! 6. Your family tells you "It's either the goats or us" and you choose the goats!
DO YOU HAVE THIS DREADED DISEASE??? Well, there is hope! In the course of our researches, most studies show that most cases seem to stop at stage II, and remain chronic! (...) And interesting sidelight of this disease seems to be that exposure to an early age has an immunizing effect. Several people afflicted with ACOS Stage II & Stage III have close family members (husband, wife, children's, etc.) with ABSOLUTELY no disease with very strong immunity! WHAT CAN YOU DO TO PREVENT THIS DISEASE? Until a cure is found, prevention is the measure! Avoid farms advertising "show stock," since it may that goats are carriers of the disease. Leave town on those days when the local newspaper inform you of a show in the area. If you inadvertently come into contact with an ACOS-afflicted person, leave as soon as possible (they do tend to cling), and thoroughly shower, with germicidal soap. If you are living with an ACOS-afflicted person, take comfort that, if you haven't succumbed yet, you are probably safe..... but we never know!!!! I think I already got it. Be careful it spreads fast seems to hit women harder than men.
