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Founded in January, 2003
Raising Fainting Goats (Myotonics) in Alberta, Canada

 

   

We are a small family run hobby farm located in the Vulcan area of southern Alberta. Our selective healthy herd of Myotonics (also known as fainting goats - nervous goats - stiff-legged goats - mountain ghosts) come in a variety of coat colours ~ patterns and coat lengths ~ either brown/marbled or blue eyed ~ horned and range in size from medium to large. All of our goats are registered through the International Fainting Goat Association, (IFGA) and through Pedigree International (PI). You may view all of our current stocks pedigrees by joining the fainters.net pedigree project at www.fainters.net. This is an excellent web site for pedigree information and the best part is – anyone can view it or – upload pedigree information ~ we highly recommend it and use the site on a regular basis. We are pleased to have lines from all across Canada and imported lines from the USA including directly imported bucks and a doe (directly imported does are very-very rare)! 

Our first introduction to the Myotonic goat was in 1999 with the purchase of our eldest doe "Sassy". Because of Sassy's gentle - docile temperament ~ excellent mothering skills and low maintenance care, we decided to sell all of our other various breeds of goats and focus on the Myotonic breed only. Please view our description page for an in-depth description of the Myotonic goat. 

We are now in approaching our fifth year of raising this truly unique breed of goat and have thoroughly enjoyed every minute of it. Throughout the last five years, we have gained a great deal of knowledge by corresponding with many excellent breeders across Canada and the USA ~ we have also made many new friendships along the way as well. We will continue to educate ourselves about this rare breed of goat as we feel it is important for the future of the Myotonic breed.

Our goats are dewormed twice a year or when needed and hooves are trimmed regularly. During the winter months, their diet consists of good quality grass/alfalfa mixed hay. In the summer months or when available, they are turned out to the pasture where they can browse and forage. Salt and minerals are provided free choice year round. We do not give our goats any concentrates as they have managed very well without them.

 We are striving to raise Myotonics that are hardy and well muscled ~ have correct conformation and conform to the breed standard set fourth by the IFGA. Breedings are well thought out and usually planned for March through to May.

We will continue to focus on our own line of breeding quality Myotonics and like last year – we will retain almost all of the doe kids born. We will watch these kids grow into yearlings and then decide who we keep from there. We can see the improvements in these 2007 kids compared to last years kids and will continue to focus on improving the breed from there. On occasion we do offer breeding quality bucks and does to existing breeders looking for new lineage or – to folks looking to start their own herds. Keep checking the sales page to see if any of our stock is offered for sale. Or, if you would like to be placed on our waiting list for a breeding quality kid (especially the buck kids) – please contact us because we will be retaining most of the doe kids born here in the next few years and wethering almost all of the buck kids born. We want to improve on the quality we offer to the public and in order to do this – we will have to keep back most of the kids born and continue from them. This will take some time due to the fact that the Myotonic breed is slow growing. It is however not impossible because we can see the major improvements in our 2007 kid crops compared to our 2005~2006 kid crops (and the 2005~2006 kid crops were good ones!!). The doe kids we kept back in 2005 are now mamas and they have produced better than themselves. We do realize there is no such thing as a “perfect” goat and we are far from having a “perfect” goat however – there is always room for improvement and that is what we are striving for. So, if you prefer a buck or doe kid rather than a yearling – please get in touch with us to be placed on our waiting list because we will only be breeding a handful of our does each year (ten does maximum) and will be retaining most of them for our own herd. If we have a good doe kid crop this year – there may be some of these kids offered for sale in 2008 ~ sadly – we can’t keep them all ;o( .

 If you’re just looking for a pet or companion – we offer wethers (neutered males) only. They make excellent pets and are a pleasure to have around. We do not sell any does for “pets”.

 Here at Faint Hope Acres, we are working very hard to preserve and improve this Rare breed of goat here in Canada. By working hand in hand with breeders across Canada and the USA, 
we can achieve our goals for the Myotonic breed in Canada.  

 We are members of:

International Fainting Goat Association

Alberta Goat Breeders Association

Pedigree International

Myotonic Goat Registry

  If you have any questions ~ please contact us at

fainthopeacres@telus.net

 For more information or to locate a Myotonic breeder near you, please visit:

International Fainting Goat Association www.faintinggoat.com

Pedigree International www.pedigreeinternational.com

Myotonic Goat Registry www.myotonicgoatregistry.com  

Alberta Goat Breeders Association www.albertagoatbreeders.ca

 Thank you from Faint Hope Acres
Susan, Randy and Shawn Mason

Above information updated on: 
June 29, 2008    

News Flash 

All of our 2008 kids have been sold! Thank you to everyone who made a purchase from us. We have updated some of the kids photos and you may view them on the Sales Page and the Kids Page. Please watch for more exciting updates in the near future.  

We would also like to send out a BIG CONGRATULATIONS to Riding Mountain Treasures and Faint Hope Acres Coal Miner for taking First Place Buck 24 - 36 months ~ Senior Champion Buck and ~ Grand Champion Buck in the first ever Myotonic Cyber Show!!!!!!!!!!

If you have not yet heard of the Cyber Show - please click on the link and check it out. When we found out Coal Miner had won - we were speechless and astounded!!!!! There were so many outstanding goats entered in this show and for Coalminer to win - WOW - what an honor for sure!!!! Way to go Cheryl & Coalminer! Sure wish I had of known about this show sooner as we would have entered some of our photos for sure.  ;o)

It looked like a lot of fun and we would like to Thank Betty Shelby of Apache Landing and Gloria Humphrey of Redbud Eight for all their hard work on this and to anyone else who put their efforts into creating this show. Hope to see another one in the future. ;o)

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