In August 1998, The Rockn "G” Farm was formed by Bob & Eileen Griner, located in Southwest Georgia eight miles outside of Thomasville. We have almost five acres, therefore are limited to how big we can be.

     Bob decided he wanted to have some of those red-headed/white body goats he had seen at the Moultrie Sunbelt Exposition in Moultrie, Georgia. For several years he would go and talk with the Boer people that were there about the Boers. They suggested going with a Full-blood Boer buck and Spanish or percentage Boer does and built from there.

     The summer on ’98, he purchased eight Texas Spanish Does and we were in the goat business.  He borrowed a neighbors Boer buck to breed the does. I told him, "That was his hobby I didn’t want anything to with them." HA HA! You goatees out there know that wouldn’t last. When those first kids started hitting the ground that all it took. I was hooked.

     I guess it was a good thing we started out that way, because we had a lot to learn about raising goats, along with our veterinarians. We lost a few and had lots of problems learning what to do with these goats. Worming, trimming hooves, taking care of kids, housing, feeding, etc. I would much rather learn all these things on $50 goats than $500 goats.

     Our goal at that time, was to keep our does to raise and breed and sell all our bucks for meat. We had some ethnic groups in our area so the meat part was no problem. Our does wasn’t a problem either but we just couldn’t keep enough because people were trying to get started in raising goats and kept coming to buy does. In 1999, we sold our whole doe kid crop to other people and all the bucks for meat. Why is it everyone wants to buy the ones you want to keep?

     Our meat buyers found another source for meat at a cheaper price and stop coming on a regular basis, just occasionally when the other person had none. So we started to look at what we were doing and about the same time the Sunbelt Goat Producers Co-op was starting to make some noise in Georgia. We did some investigation and decided that was where we needed to take our meat operation. Knowing we could sell our bucks when we needed to and not have to wait on someone to come to the farm to buy them. Spending extra money feeding and taking care of them, with the Co-op we could take them at the time we weaned from the does, without any adding expense except for the gas to travel to the slaughter facility.

     About this time we started to look at our operation and decided we wanted to change the way we were heading. Our grandkids were getting interested in the goats and we started taking them to shows. Now the whole family is interested in showing, so we had to change the way we were headed to include some show quality stock along with our breeding stock and to increase our percentages and include more full-bloods.

     Our goal now and for the future, at this time, is continue with our high percentage stock and add some full-bloods and work with our bloodlines to produce excellent show- quality and breed stock Boers. Get our county’s children involved with the 4-H.

Goat raising and showing. Educate people in the area on the meat of the future for the USA.

     Anytime you are in Southwest Ga., stop by and see us, look at our goats and talk goats for awhile. We would love to visit with anyone interested in the Boer goats. Give us a call before you come, we both have to work a full-time jobs to take care of our babies.

(229)228-0458

HAPPY GOATING!!!