Wellwood Farms

Wellwood Farms is located in central Ohio in a small community called West
Mansfield. We are located between Marysville and Kenton Ohio. My husband and I
run the small farm that includes Nigerian Dwarf Dairy Goats, Birmingham Roller
Pigeons, several farm cats a house cat and a few Chihuahua's.

We started our goat farm in July of 2005, my neighbor brought home 2 pygmy goats
and I thought they were adorable. Well of course I had to have a few - actually 5. In
December I met another neighbor who was raising Nigerian Dwarf goats, I went
home and started researching Nigerian Dwarfs. A few days later she called and said
that her doe had kidded and wanted to know if I was interested. I took one look and
fell in love with them. We sold our Pygmy's and started raising Nigerians. They are
very gentle and loving animals, each with their own personality.

As we begin to breed and raise our own herd we are striving to raise goats that are
healthy, correct in confirmation, have a good mammary system, even temperament
and that will do well in the show ring. The whole herd was tested in the fall of 2006 for
CAE - all tests came back negative.

It has been an adventure since we started raising Nigerians. We have survived our
first kidding season and found good homes for those we decided to sell. I have
learned how to make cheese, fudge and ice cream with the milk that we produced -
another adventure - I learned how to milk a goat. We still have a lot to learn about
raising and maintaining goats - it is a never ending fun filled adventure.

Thanks to the many new friends that we have made throughout the goat community
and all of the helpful information that they have given us.