Sweet Serenity Lamancha's

Sweet Serenity Lamancha's is located in a small farming community on the Wyoming Nebraska border. 

 Just A small farm with a lot of Character. I have raised Lamancha's for 30 years. recently added a few Experimental/ Nubians to the herd working with Goldthwaite bloodlines.

 The Herd is LA when available, generally do every other year due to cost. DHI testing, and disease tested yearly. Life member of ADGA. 

The herd has been on Milk Test for the past seven years. 

Sweet Serenity goal is to raise beautiful dairy goats with strong longevity while having the will to produce quality milk.

Nice body structure with udders that are easy to milk by hand or machine. Personality is a plus, Friendly willing to work.

LITTLE HISTORY:

My first goat all those years ago was a little white crossbred buck my dad brought home for us girls as a gift for Easter! I was instantly in love! He was so much fun he was my best friend all summer. That fall when he started acting like Bucks do, my mother was appalled, soon after Billy left. 

I started my own herd after I was married and got a Nubian and Alpine (Tinkerbell and Coalette) Milk was plentiful and life was good! Soon after, we moved to Torrington, met a lady selling goats from a ad at the supermarket. I met up and bought my first Lamancha (Spice) then became instant friend with Marina. Later we got the show bug and started learning about showing and wanted better quality goats. We really had no clue, no mentor, just that we loved our goats and showing with our kids in 4-H was alot of fun. After Spice I was hooked.  That was the breed I wanted to raise! I have never swayed either! My love for the Lamancha breed will always surpass the others.  They are an oddity, just what I love odd things that aren't like the others. This is so true Lamancha's are so personable and love their people! They can withstand different climates, sturdy and little workers in the milk room.  I'm sure I will have a lamancha on the farm till I die!! they are a part of me!

My goats have got me through a lot of tough times, When I lost my husband. They were the reason I had to get up every morning! They seemed to comfort me in my time of loss, I spent many hours in the goat pen. I can say they have picked me up on my lowest of lows.  Shortly after I got a call from, Beverly Goldthwaite She was in need of a herd caretaker when she was judging and traveling. Well, of course I was delighted anything with goats was my jam!!  I must say Becky became my mentor and she has taught me so much! More than I could ever learn on my own. She soon turned my herd in a 180!! I was learning what I liked also. I just had so many years of bad information that I really didn't know what I liked or wanted or where I was going with my herd. (Remember this was before the internet!) I just bought and bought goats from top herds and got nowhere. I knew I wanted Lamancha's that I would be proud of and that would be able to milk by hand or the milk machine and show well. I wanted those pretty shiny black and tan ones!!! next thing that made a big impact on my herd, Becky was gone for a month! I was paid for doing her chores with this gorgeous black and tan little buck Katmandu.... Needless to say, that's all it took! I knew what I wanted and where I was going!!

Becky soon brought home more of those Black and Tans, while she was out visiting JoAnn at Curds and Whey, my foundation does, Ethic, Emotion, Cabo....  Who are all deceased now, but lucky for me I got a lot of beautiful babies out of them in their later years of life! Since, I have purchased another Buck (Caleb) from Curds and Whey Farm, and they all go back to my all-time favorite herd Lucky Stars! So, that's just a tiny bit of how I got all those black and tans in my herd. I feel very blessed to have such a beautiful herd and to have been able to learn and have such an opportunity to have Beverly Goldthwaite as a mentor that is something one can only dream about!! I just wish I could have had her in my life 25 years sooner!! lol none the less, I'm a lucky girl that's for sure!!

I am especially proud to own so much of the LUCKY*STARS bloodlines, I have admired Don and Judy's Herd for so, so many years, I bought a buck  (20) years ago Lucky*Stars Nitro, that was a Kareem son, Then a doe I called Nimbus 2000, I really had no clue on how to bred goats. No such thing as web sites only Herd brochures and I was always the first to request one from Lucky*Stars. all though I bought whatever was on top at the time from many differnt herds, many that took me for a ride!!  My love always went back to Lucky*Stars (Black and Tans). It's kind of crazy how I finally got my dream come true with these lovely Foundation does from Lucky*Stars. I hope to meet Judy and Don someday I'm their biggest admirer. 

The future of Sweet Serenity hopefully will produce some quality Lamancha's that are Noticed right away when you walk in the goat pen or the show ring while having the ability to milk with longevity and hardiness.   I am limited on the amount of shows I attend, Generally, only one or two.

The Nubians Well...... thats a whole other story!! I love me a good glass of cold Nubian goat's milk and I love a long elegant floppy eared girl. Becky, is the reason for them here on a Lamancha farm! lol 

Also, you will notice I have a hard time getting good pictures! as much as I do like to see them set up and posing! I really appreciate their natural standings and the way they set themselves up. you see a real top line when they are standing on their own not being posed for a picture! jmo. This web site has been something I have wanted for a long time! hope you enjoy it as much as I do! It is just the beginning so much to do! very much under construction!!

• Thanks for taking the time to look at my herd.