Sandy Lane Dairy Goats
Raising Quality ADGA Registered Dairy Goats
Hello and welcome to Sandy Lane Farm. We are located two hours west of Chicago in Lee County on a 160 acre farm that has been in our family for four generations. My mom and I manage the dairy herd, while my brothers and dad manage their herd of Boer goats for meat (to see their site, click here)
We raise LaManchas and Oberhasli. All of our goats are registered with the American Dairy Goat Association. We raise our animals as natural as possible, and use natural and homeopathic medicines to treat any ailments that might affect them. Herd health and animal welfare are our top priorities. Our animals are wormed regularly with herbal wormers, and we do use chemical wormers if necessary. We only give our animals antibiotics only if it is absolutely necessary. We feed our animals alfalfa grass mix hay, which we grow ourselves, and they are fed a low protein high energy grain mix which we also mix ourselves. We feed no soy to our animals.
We also are trying to breed the best animals that we can, not only an animal that can put it in the bucket, but also an animal that is structurally correct. We are unable to show our goats due to the time involved, but our goats come from show quality lines. We will be participating in Linear Appraisal this year and I am very excited about that. Our lines include Lucky*Star, Altrece, South-Fork, Fir Meadow, Shady-Lawn and K-Lou for our LaManchas and Singing-Spruce, Haycreeks and Tonka-Tails for our Oberhasli.
Our goal is to become a licensed cheese dairy and produce quality farmstead goat cheeses that we can sell at farmers markets. We are currently in the planning and setting up process of it.
Take a look around, and if you have any comments, please sign my guestbook, and if you have any questions, email me at goathappy@gmail.com
Enjoy your visit!
Our little slice of heaven
Susan and Sarah Delhotal
West Brooklyn, IL 61378
(815)-628-7122
