Kinder Goat Association

An article in a small farm magazine in 1990 was the beginning of my becoming a Kinder goat breeder. At the time we owned our home and 2 1/2 A. in the middle of a small town setting on the bluff above the Missouri River. We were looking for a goat that would be an easy keeper and one that we could care for on such a small amount of land.



I saw the magazine open to the article about the Kinder Goat at a goat show in the northern part of Missouri. The article was written by Kristin Heinbaugh. There was a picture of a Kinder buck and one of a Kinder doe, the doe was Zederkamm Liberty. Liberty proved to be the grand lady of the Kinder goats with many pictures and articles written about her.



Liberty was one of the first to be known as Kinder goat. Thus the beginning of the Kinder breed as we know it today. She was the first to earn a star in milk testing and was one of the first Kinder to be evaluated by Harvey Considine. As a result of this first Kinder evaluation Harvey later created a Kinder Score Card to be used just for Kinder goats. This score card is used by both breeders of Kinder goats and as a guide for judges who will be judging Kinder goats in the show ring.



Because of Liberty and a group of interested breeders in Washington state the Kinder Goat Association was formed along with the Kinder Registry. Today the Kinder goat is raised and bred all over the United States and also in other countries.



Many thanks to Liberty, to those dedicated people who formed the association and to Harvey Considine for giving us such an important guide (the Kinder Score Card) to go by.