Ronco Farms

About Our Farm

Welcome to Ronco Farm website! Our small herd of Nubians has moved back to northeast Nebraska. In April 2022 we packed up and moved to a small ranch in northeastern Nebraska closer to family again. We have had to make some life changes due to health and needs in our family. Most of our small herd are direct decendents of animals I have raised. I have acquired a young new herd sire and one dry yearling doe from Headway Farms that is Veteran’s Ranch bloodlines. My goats help in summer as milk producers, lawn mowers and weed management.

My foundation doe came from the purebred Nubian herd, Bloom-N-Nubians, owned by the late Ruth Ann Repenning. I brought Bloom-N-Nubians T Magic Tinker home in the fall of 2006 as she was finishing up her first lactation. Several of my present herd trace back to her. In 2010, I acquired my first herdsire, Magic Dreams Regal Heritage and a yearling doe in her first lactation, Fiddler’s Ridge Nights Lullaby from Guinivere’s Jasper Farm in Iowa. I owe her a huge thank you for 2 great Nubians to continue building and growing for the future here at Ronco Farm. Magic Dreams Regal Heritage aka Harry, went to  Iowa with Phred and Jayne Linn at Linn Farms. He has since crossed the Rainbow Bridge but has left some great bucks and does to carry on his line. Fiddler’s Ridge Nights Lullaby has left her influence in my herd through her grand daughter. These two well bred Nubians gave me a nice foundation for our herd. Another doe that added some excellent blood lines for us was Jowanda’s Tender Lovin *aka Lovey*. I purchased this doe from Marlyn Stertz’s Nobilop Herd. Even though she wasn’t in our herd very long due to a severe mastitis problem her granddaughter Ronco Farm Windy Ebony became my first Top Ten Doe. She has earned this honor twice as well as Elite Doe. She is still in our herd as well as some of her outstanding offspring.

We will be cutting our herd back to 3 or 4 milkers. I will have several really nice milking does available in the future. We use their milk for our own personal use, but because of their excellent milking abilities they produce much more than we are able to use. All of my kids are bottled fed and raised on pure goat milk. Once they are weaned our milk is used fresh, frozen or sold. I also enjoy using their milk to make soap and cheese.

My goats have been enjoying the grassy pastures and all the fresh green forage here in Nebraska! Even though it has been exceptionally dry for here, our goats haven’t noticed.

My husband, Ron and I have been married 50 years on Feb. 12, 2022. Ron has retired as pastor of Trinity Baptist Church in Tucumcari, New Mexico. Because of the Covid-19 Pandemic it was a challenging time for everyone.  I also retired from my job as an Educational Assistant in San Jon Municipal School. We love where our new home is located as it provides us with a beautiful, quiet refuge from the busy, noisy world. It is like camping in a wilderness with a comfortable cabin to live in.

In 2018 I received news of my first Top Ten doe! My homebred doe, Ronco Farm Windy Ebony. She also achieved Top Ten recognition in August of 2019. Simple-Truth Celerity was also the 1st Top Ten doe on the August 2019 list. She came to our herd from Fruitful-Acres Farm in Texas. She is now at home with Head Nubians in Clovis, New Mexico. I am excited to see what my little herd will do in the future. As our future makes some big changes we are adapting as we go with it. God has been faithful in taking care of us each step of our journey.