About Us

Yorkshire Dairy Goats (YDG) are our principal genetic supply partner. YDG was established in 1986 and has grown to become one of Europe’s largest and most productive dairy goat herds, supplying 10 million litres of high-quality fresh goats milk per year to the UK retail market. Operating from two sites in East Yorkshire the herd of 7,000 milkers and 3,000 young stock is managed to the highest health and biosecurity standards. As such it is accredited free of CAE and Scrapie and is free of all the major production diseases of dairy goats, such as Caseous Lymphadenitis, Q-fever, Brucella, Bovine TB , Mycoplasma Agalactiae etc.

A comprehensive 38 year selective breeding, and progeny testing programme has resulted in a stabilised-hybrid or composite population, comprising Saanen, British Alpine, and British Toggenburg blood, that is ideally suited to the demands of modern commercial milk production.

Selected for productivity, health and longevity, the herd boasts a rolling average yield of 1,500 litres of milk per goat per year, at 11.5% Total Milk Solids, with a lifetime average production of c. 5,000 litres. The typical lactation length is 20 months (600 days). Many of the herds top performing females have exceeded 10,000 litres lifetime production, at an average of over 240 kgs Total Milk Solids per year.