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Conversations with Goaticus

May 2, 2020 by Mike Rosso

By John Mattingly Several years ago, my wife and I walked into the barn to be greeted by a two-week old male goat bleating insistently. We then saw that his mother, an ancient nanny we knew as Osho, had died. Osho was the acknowledged superior in the herd. With a passing resemblance to Bhagwan Shree …

A Farmer Far Afield – Morgan Goat Company

February 22, 2016November 1, 2015 by Mike Rosso

by John Mattingly Colorado Central readers who have driven through the San Luis Valley on Hwy. 17 and looked east between Roads Z and X may have noticed large herds of cloven-hoofed and horned creatures interrogating the grass and brush inside a six-foot-high woven wire fence enclosing about 800 acres. The above-mentioned creatures are, for …

Jumpin’ Good Goats Got it Good

January 12, 2010April 1, 2009 by Staff

by Sterling R. Quinton

On the outskirts of a quiet Colorado town lies a new goat dairy which, despite the steep industrial odds set against it, is making an impressive stand upon some old-time principles.

At the center of that dairy is its founder, Dawn Jump, who embodies the quintessential blend of rugged mountain individualist and collegially articulate woman, calling to mind Isabella Bird and her 1873 collection of letters, A Lady’s life in the Rocky Mountains. The comparison is all the more compelling because Jump’s Colorado lineage harks back to 1892. Her family homesteaded a forty-acre ranch in Calhan, Colorado.