Wellwood Farms

Wellwood Farms is a small farm where we raise Nigerian Dwarf and Mini-Nubian goats. We are located in central Ohio, in a small community called West Mansfield, located between Marysville and Kenton. My husband and I run the farm, along with the goats we have Birmingham Roller Pigeons, several farm cats, a farm dog (Boomer),a house cat, and 2 Chihuahua's.

We started our goat farm in July of 2005, with a few, actually 5 pygmy goats. In December I met a neighbor who was raising Nigerian Dwarf goats, I went home and started researching Nigerian Dwarfs. A few days later she called to say 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, even temperament and that will do well in the show ring and in the milk pail. The whole herd was tested in the fall of 2009 for CAE - all tests came back negative.

It has been an adventure since we started raising Nigerians. We have survived several kidding seasons 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.