Tye Dye Acres.

Tennessee Fainting Goats (also known as Myotonic goats), make wonderful pets; the goats are super friendly, affectionate and docile by nature! I breed the smaller fainters, they are much easier to handle when giving shots, deworming and trimming hooves. The bucks are easy to handle as well, and I've never had a problem with any of my bucks being mean to humans or the does. But you should always respect a breeding male animal.

Myotonic goats go by several different names: Tennessee Fainting Goats (a incorrect since they don't lose consciousness and therefore don't "faint"), Texas or Tennessee Meat Goats (like the name indicates they are a much larger variety mainly used for meat), Wooden-Leg Goats or Nervous Goats. They have a muscle condition called myotonia congenital, a medical term used to describe stiffening. This inherited trait leads to an overall increase in muscle mass so that the goats are very muscular when compared to other breeds of similar size. Hence why they are sometimes used for cabrito. Myotonia occurs in the muscle fiber, not as a function of the central nervous system and causes no problem for the goats. In fact, some goats will continue to chew or eat while they are in "faint". Myotonic goats are slow to mature and don't reach their full size and weight until 3 years of age.

My herd:

I have been raising animals for a while now, and started out with just two pygmy goats. Well now you can see how addicting these critters are. I've worked on dairy farms all my life and it has helped me out a lot, from giving shots to treating problems. I've always loved goats and when I saw an ad in the paper for two free pygmy goats I jump in and got Snow and her brother Frost. He was wethered and I sold him a year later to a family who had also bought two does from me. Snow passed on but I have her daughter to remember her by. Then I got more and more into the fainting goats, buying a tri-colored buckling and breeding him to my pygmy does and fainter does. The pygmy crosses I sold for pet and decided I liked the fainters more and sold my pygmy does. Several of my pure fainter does have had kids and I have had a ton of color born and everyone looks awesome.

I raise hardy, healthy, easy going animals with attention to color, conformation, and temperment. My goats are my "kids" and get the best treatment!

All of my goats are vaccinated twice a year, dewormed every other month, and hooves trimmed as needed. They are very good looking animals, with no conformation problems and can be shown in 4-H or county fairs.

Thanks for stopping by, and if you have any questions, feel free to email me.