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Family’s goat herd grew through the years

Ears fly and a tongue licks as the Kramer goat herd’s latest kids know it's feeding time in Clearfield Township farm. These goats are only weeks old and must be fed twice a day. Cary Shaffer/Butler Eagle

CLEARFIELD TWP — It’s late afternoon and the old dairy barn on Allen Drive is filled with bleats and bawling. It’s feeding time for the young goats.

As Emily, 16, David, 12, and Philip, 10, work to bottle-feed the young goats, their mother Amanda Kramer explained how the family came to be the owners of 60-head goat herd.

Up until a decade ago, she and her husband, Dave, worked a dairy farm that had been in the Kramer family for six generations. But then the costs began to outweigh the profits, and they sold off the cows.

“About eight years ago, we were looking for an animal to do with 4-H, and my husband wanted it to be not cows,” Kramer said. So, they decided to start with a couple of goats their children could use in their Kashmere Kids 4-H animal group.

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