Stud Profile - Meie Talund
AMGA Breeder Member# 04018

MEIE TALUND Stud is a 5 acre property at Frankford in Tasmania about 40km from Launceston. Frankford is beautiful rolling hills of past dairy farms, where now small farms run cattle and sheep. Most people commute to Launceston or Devonport for work. We have frosty cold winters with the occasional flake of snow.
My partner, Jeanne, and I have lived in this beautiful place for almost 6 years now. We bought our first goats 41/2 years ago, starting with a couple of dairy goats which I milked, (one I am still milking to help feed the babies), then a few small goats from Queensland & Victoria, with the hope of breeding the little minis. We found this was not an easy quest, but are perservering and always on the look out for small stock to work with.
Although this is not Jeanne’s passion, she gets dragged through all the trials and tribulations that go with owning stock animals. She is very patient and helpful.

We no longer have any difficult, people-shy goats on our property and this is making our work much easier. This year we had 13 babies born in September within a two week span so have been very busy bottle feeding. We have kept one of our baby boys for a Stud Buck called Huckleberry Finn (Huck). He Is a little black and white swiss and is a very pretty boy. All our babies are bottle fed, disbudded and the boys are wethered, so they make beautiful people friendly pets.

Our aim, at the moment, is to get our sizes down and produce an assortment of colours. Always with the aim for sound, healthy, friendly goats.