Thank you for visiting our website.  Please take a few moments to view the pages, where you'll see some photos of both our farm and some of our animals. 

Our web site will continue to change throughout the year.  Our goal is to provide you with information about our farm and herd, with updates as we go through the year (i.e. kidding season!), as well as listing any animals we will be offering for sale.  Please check back frequently for updates. We welcome questions and feedback, particularly on our blog- please check that as well for frequent updates!

If you are not familiar with our farm, and your first contact with us is online: We would be pleased to hear from you! Please let us know what your needs and questions are, we will be more than happy to help.

In brief, we'd like you to know the following about us: we are a multi-generation farm located in upstate New York.  The farm has been in our family since 1897, and has evolved through the years from a dairy and market crop farm in its early years to a beef and dairy goat farm during the 1970s, '80s and '90s.  For a brief time, we operated the farm primarily as a market hay farm, but found that we truly missed being involved with raising animals, especially goats!  In 2002, we purchased our first two Boer doelings, and welcomed their kids in January 2003...and so it goes!

In the past two years, we expanded from Boer and Boer-cross goats with the addition of Kikos to our herd. 

During the 2010 kidding season, we saw the results of our decision to experiment with crossing some of our animals with a Fullblood Kiko buck.  The results were impressive.  The kids showed strong growth due to the hybrid vigor created by the crossing of the two major breeds of our animals, Boer and Kiko.  To validate and confirm our breeding program, we took part in performance testing using the program offered by Kentucky State University, and were pleased with the outcomes.  In order to further expand our Kiko herd, we purchased a second buck in October 2010, and used him with a number of our yearling doelings.

Our 2011 kidding season yielded 50 kids off and running!  We were very pleased with the offspring from all our bucks.  All the kids were evaluated through a performance testing program once again, helping us decide which were to be offered for sale as well as selecting replacement doelings to stay in our herd. 

While looking at our site, be sure to check out the MiG page that we have added this grazing season.  This page describes our transition to a pasture raised and grass finished goat herd.  We also invite you to check our blog, where we hope to post regular updates from Sunny Acres as the year progresses.

No Goat Left Behind.  We recently began a partnership with Heritage Foods, USA, a NYC based organization that works "to promote genetic diversity, small family farms, and a fully traceable food supply."  Our farm was selected to be part of their "No Goat Left Behind" initiative, which you can learn more about by visiting http://www.heritagefoodsusa.com/ventures/goat.html.  We are very excited to be part of this venture, and will keep you updated through our blog.  We are also featured in the video for the venture, which you can view on the Heritage Foods website.

We are located in Athens, NY, and you can also find us on Facebook.  Please call ahead to arrange a farm visit!  Thanks for stopping by!

MEMBER
Empire State Meat Goat Producers Association

MEMBER                                                                                              National Kiko Registry                             

MEMBER
American Kiko Goat Association

MEMBER New York Farm Bureau

See our listing on the Pure Catskills website