NEBRASKA GOATS - WELCOME

We are Jim & Theresa Borrenpohl from Tecumseh, Nebraska.  We are located 75 miles South of Omaha, Nebraska, and 55 miles South of Lincoln.  We have been married 34 years this year and have a wonderful family, son James and wife Julie, son Jon and wife Elizabeth and they have two beautiful daughters, Brooke and Jenna and then there was Jessica, our youngest daughter, who is presently in college at Wayne State.  We have approximately 40 acres of timber and pasture.

We started Nebraska Goats in 2002 after asking my husband, Jim, if he wanted to go to a goat conference in Beatrice, NE.  He said no (he was working on his new barn at the time and didn’t want to take a whole day to go to a goat conference.  And guess what – he hasn’t had time to finish that barn since we got the goats!).  I told him ok I’ll go by myself which I knew he would relent and go with me.  It was a very good conference and when we left he asked me when we were going to get some goats?  Typical!!!

So, off to Texas we went which had its advantages since our son and daughter-in-law James and Julie lived there, and it just so happened after much, much research I decided we would go with the Kiko breed (the only research I did), and lo and behold our son worked with a women who raised Kiko Goats.

Our first purchase was a 100% Kiko buck, Tex, and a 100% Boer Buck, Montana, and six percentage does – from boer to Spanish.  We brought them home in a camper shell which worked very well, and Nebraska Goats was born.

We got home from Texas around 8:30 p.m., we had no pens, no fence, no waterers, NOTHING, ABSOLUTELY NOTHING for their care, the only thing we did have was 40 acres of so much buckbrush and trees we thought it would take the goats forever to find their way through it.  I am advising anyone reading this – don’t do it the way we did it, and if you stick around, because I am planning on starting a blog, you can learn from all the mistakes we made and continue to make -  I could write a book.  We rigged up two pens since the bucks could not be in the same pen as the does, and we went to bed.  The next day the work started.