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In 1987,
GreatHouse Farm, in Gainesville, FL, started as an equestrian center, boarding
horses; myself, Jan, teaching riding lessons, and breeding/training Appaloosa
Sport Horses, which we still continue to do. But life on this farm took a new
path 17 years ago when we bought a 3 week-old Nubian doeling through our
farrier. We named her Anniegoat.
 Knowing
nothing about goat care and thinking that milk replacer would be fine, we
panicked when she immediately grew ill. We took her to our farm equine vet,
who, thankfully owned goats...Annie was given Albon and we were sent to Jan
Brewer, Jan-T Nubians, in another town for fresh goat milk. After buying Annie
milk for 6
months (yes, still a 7 mo. old bottle baby!!) and given the gift of
top quality goat mentoring and learning to show and care for goats the right
way, I was addicted!
Jan Brewer became my lifelong
mentor, still forever my dear friend. In a week, Annie was thriving. My
husband, Charlie, and I raised her as a daughter...she spent her days with me
at the barn and slept between us, her entire life of 15 years, in bed at
night. She traveled everywhere - loved the beach - with us in the car, a Mercedes purchased for
Annie with her milk money (2 gal/day after her 1st kidding) and yes, she was
house and car broken except for one accident. Ask me sometime about the story
of Annie taking her Christmas gifts to put under Jan's tree; Annie drank too
much champagne, pee-ed, and passed out under the Christmas tree...YIKES!
With Jan Brewer's help, we
registered her NOA, She was purebred but her dam had no papers although her
sire did. Anniegoat officially became GN The GreatHouse AnnaBanana Goat. I
joined the Florida Dairy Goat Association and the American Dairy Goat
Association and look forward to becoming a life member. Well, that's how GreatHouse Nubians was born.
.JPG) We bred Annie to a top Jan-T
Nubian buck and bought several purebred doelings and eventually our first
buck. So, today in 2009, we have 5 herdsires and 40 or so weanlings, yearlings
and senior milkers. Anniegoat is no longer with us except in spirit and in our
American Nubian line of her granddaughters, great granddaughters and even great-great
granddaughters...most of our does are purebred out of Kismet, Kastdemur's,
Jan-T and Longman bucks.
This year we went on DHI milk
test, have Linear Appraised since 2001, and now have 3 Superior Genetics
does...lots of show legs, and as we downsize now on the horse activities, hope
to show more, finish more does, earn more milk stars and continue our herd improvement program.
We attended our first
National Show in 2008 and our two Junior Yearlings placed 11th and 12th. We
plan to see all of you at the 2010 National Show in Louisville.
Our herd is Florida
certified/accredited, tested CL free, and we practice strict CAE prevention.
WELCOME to our new website
and a hearty welcome to GreatHouse Nubians--putting milk in the bucket and
ribbons on the walls!!
Jan Meister
Friends of GreatHouse
Nubians--Annie and Mason,
new owners of Greathouse Anna Cayce & Greathouse Anna Gracie
GreatHouse Nubians
Jan & Charlie Meister
11004 SW 67 Street
Gainesville, FL 32608
Phone:
352-376-7762
Email:
greathousefarmeq@bellsouth.net
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