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Welcome to Trickman Boer Goats
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THANK YOU!
to our Buyers at the 2010 Tall Corn Sale April 24th at Kalona, Iowa.
Trickman Boer Goats would llike to thank the buyers who purchased our wethers and 2 does at the Tall Corn sale - please keep in touch with us as to how they do in the shows you participate in this Summer.
Also thank you to all of the folks who took the time to stop and talk to us at the sale - we were so glad to meet all of you... it is so nice to hear "We have been on your website and want to introduce ourself to you!" or "We joined the IMGA and wanted to tell you we are in your group."
We wish we could have spent hours with each of you talking about goats - please feel free to email us - call us or come and visit us.
Thank You
To all of our buyers thus far this year (2010) -- we have had a record year in sales! We appreciate every person who comes to the farm and look at our livestock - it is our pleasure to show you what we have - to talk goat - and if you find something you like - send something home with you!
NEWS FLASH! Trickman Boer Goats has purchased a new buck for 2011 kids-- this time we went RED! We are very pleased to announce our newest buck; Back 2 Nature Rogue. He is solid red - mama is Agnew Cherry Bomb (Solid Red Doe) and papa is Rambo (Huge Framed Correct Buck with a Red Leg) --- pictures will be posted soon on our website and Rogue will be seeing the show ring this Summer...we are so excited as our plans are to use Rogue on our Bold Rush, Ripper and Austen granddaughters... we feel he will add dimension - depth and most of all COLOR to our kids next year!
FOR SALE: Doelings and Bucks - See our Goats for Sale Pages: breeding stock prices start at $225.00 and up...packages are available.
Bucks for Sale: We have 4 Fall Kid Bucks for sale -- all are 100% Registered Full Blood bucks. Registered bucks are $500.00 each - two are Bold Rush grandsons!
Doelings for Sale: We will have a nice group of doelings for sale -- most were born between February 1 and Mar 3, 2010. Priced between $150.00 to $500.00
Hoof Trimming Services Available!
Do you need help getting your goats hooves trimmed? -- call Rick and set up an appointment... reasonable costs -- depends on milage and number of goats to be trimmed.
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"Living The Country Life" --- RFD TV
Trickman Boer Goats was featured on a segment of "Living The Country Life" the first week in December 2009, which airs on RFD-TV. Producers of this program contacted us in October 2009 -- after determining the producers were not fakes or joking as we have several friends who love to mess with us and pull pranks - we decided the show would be a lot of fun. The film crew came to our farm and filmed from 9:00 in the morning until close to 3:00 in the afternoon one cool day in late October. After filming we supplied the producer with some pictures of Steph and Carson showing goats and Steph in the Poweshiek County Fait Queen contest...which by the way she won and represented our County at the Iowa State Fair in 2009. "Living The Country Life" has a website as well as a magazine - the website will have a video of our farm and goats. The video is located in the video area under farm animals. At the moment it is a work in progress..hope they release it soon as we can't wait to see it.
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Iowa Meat Goat Association: Elections were held on Sept 11 at Marshalltown - Cathy is now on the Board of Directors for the IMGA -- and has taken on the Secretary's position as well as the Newsletter Editor. Please feel free to contact us if you have any suggestions for the IMGA as well as the Newsletter. The new President of the IMGA is Adam Fedders of Just Kiddin' Boer Goats, V.P. is Curt Rush of C & C Livestock and the Treasurer is Myron Smalley of Iowa City Boers !
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Trickman Boer Goat Farm is a family farm located in Central Iowa. Our family consists of Rick and Cathy Van Wyhe, daughter Stephanie and son Carson. We live on a beautiful Central Iowa 80 acres farm and raise top quality Full Blood Registered and Percentage Boer goats. Our farm is very easy to find, as it is located close to I-80 and is approximately one hour east of Des Moines, Iowa and one hour west of Iowa City, Iowa. Trickman Boer Goats offers goats for sale in Iowa, all of which are either Fullblood Registered Boer goats or Percentage Boer goats.
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The name "trickman" is due to one of Rick's other passions which is drag racing. Rick has been drag racing cars and motorcycles through out the Midwest for approximately 30 years. Over the years in the drag racing world Rick became known as "The Trickman". Trickman Rick has won national title races and was I.H.R.A. 2000 World Champion. In 2006 our Ford Thunderbird with a Chevrolet heart and soul won an Ironman Trophy at Martin, Michigan Northern Nationals. In April of 2007 the race car and trailer was sold as Trickman Rick decided it is more fun raising goats!
Trickman Boer Goats was established in 2006, which makes us fairly new to the goat world but rest assured we have worked very hard to locate and purchase excellent bloodline boer goats. Our goal is to offer the best boer goats for sale in Iowa as well as top market quality meat goats in Iowa. We are members of ABGA as well as IMGA. Our interests in meat goats came through 4-H when Carson, our son announced in 2005 he wanted to show meat goats at our local county fair in Grinnell, Iowa. At this time we started searching for meat goats, particularly show wethers to use as a 4-H project. This search became long and extensive. We attended a few workshops sponsored by the Iowa Meat Goat Association and learned as much as we could from the people giving the presentations. It was during this search we discovered South African Boer Goats and fell in love. Eventually we found a few percentage boer wethers to show and also purchased our first boer crossbred doelings. Our children both showed goats at the Poweshiek County fair, this was an excellent opportunity to get our feet wet in the goat show world. After our county fair we decided to attend the Iowa State Fair goat shows; FFA, 4-H and the open Boer Goat Show.
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At the open goat show we hoped to obtain contacts to purchase quality goats from Iowa boer goat breeders. Our main search was to purchase a top quality buck to use as a herd sire and to locate bred boer does for sale in Iowa. We gathered business cards from the exhibitors and started looking at web sites as soon as we arrived home. Unfortunately, we could not find bred boer does for sale nor could we locate a full blood boer herd sire. This caused us to search the web through search engines to locate breeders in Eastern Iowa, Western Iowa, Southern Iowa, Northern Iowa or Central Iowa. We even looked for sites in Western IL, Central IL, Northern MO, Eastern NE, Southern WI and Southern MN. Finally we located Killian Boers known as "The Midwest's Premier Herd" of Boer Goats in Des Moines, Iowa. The owner Art Killian is a great person and had exactly the type of boer goat we were searching to purchase.
We purchased our first herd buck, BDK TTR T2 , his nickname is "Jerry" as his facial profile resembles a close friend named Jerry. Next we purchased a buck we called Ben - his registered name was BQB Legion. Although both of these fine bucks gave us nice strong kids we desired to improve the kidding crop to be able to compete in the show ring and in the sale ring. Thus, in February 2009 we decided to purchase some new bloodlines -including two new AABG bucks- AABG NBD Rip To Be Square and J&J1 AABG Bold Unit. Rip To Be Square is in the breeding pen right now(Summer 2009) with all 7 yearling show does. Rip obviously is a TLB T333 "Ripper" **Ennobled 2/2008 son, while Bold Unit is a 2DOX/AABG Bold Rush **Ennobled** 01/2009 son. As far as pedigrees go Bold Unit has the most inpressive pedigree with EIGHT ** Ennobled** Boers and ONE *Ennobled* Boer in his direct pedigree. Bold Unit's full sister is kicking arse and taking names all over the South East in ABGA shows-- we expect Bold Unit to become a great herd sire in the future! Another addition to our herd is UFarm Kane -a super bone structured buck purchased in April 2009. Kane's pedigree contains Boers ssuch as: DSM Richard **Ennobled**, DSM Wobbles SA **Ennobled**, DSM Sir Edmond **Ennobled** plus Windrush Terrific is his dam. Our final new herd sire is WIN Trickman's Major who is a traditional colored buck with a red sire named WAF Austin SA from Whispering Willow Boer Goats, obviously we are looking for kids with color when we use Major as a stud buck. WIN Trickman's Major is a November 2008 kid so he will not be in the breeding pens until 2010.
Currently we have does bred to start kidding in September 2009, then again in December 2009 and plan on breeding for kids in February 2010. Also we will offer top quality meat goats for sale in Central Iowa to consumers of chevon meat. Finally, we plan on investigating the "hot new" show wether market in Iowa and may enter in that market as well. Our main goal at the moment is concentrating on raising, producing and selling the best Registered Boer Goats in the state of Iowa. Look for Trickman Boer Goats at the 2009 Iowa State Fair as we plan on showing in the open class shows as well as both Stephanie and Carson plan on exhibiting boer goats in the 4-H and FFA shows.
Visitors are also welcome to our farm.
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A group of young does on our farm in 2008 - you can see these does and their kids! |
For kidding in late 2007 and early 2008 we decided to breed our females to kid in waves or groups. Our first group of does to kid was most of our low percentage does and a few registered full blood does.
In the first group there were 14 does who gave us 26 live kids (we had 4 kid deaths; 3 at birth and 1 within a day of birth so all total we had 30 kids). This set of does kidded between December 16th and December 30 2007.
Our next group of does start kidding in mid January followed by a group due in late February and ending with the young does who should start kidding in April.
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This picture is some of the does in 2008 |
We are looking forward to chosing our show kids - selecting some herd replacements and selling some great kids from these does.
Thank you to our buyers in 2007,2008 and 2009 as we had a very successful first three years in sales. So far in 2010 we are setting a great pace !! !We have kept in touch with our buyers throughout the yeasr and feel very proud of the animals we sold to these buyers as everyone seems pleased.
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We purchased Daisy at the Heart of Missouri sale in early October 2007. Daisy is 1/2 Anatolian and 1/2 Komondor... at 4 month old she was already telling Wiley Coyote who was boss on our farm (or should I say Miss Daisy's Farm). We really love this dog - she is great not only as a protector of the goats but all of the farm animals (except chickens - she thought they were play things and killed a few in the name of play - so we had to put them back in their coop for a while.) |
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Due to our location, we are able to offer Goats for Sale to people in many states, including Iowa, Wisconsin, Illinois, Missouri, Minnesota, Nebraska and South Dakota.
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