Welcome to the Home of JKHerdItAll & JKShrunkTheKids

We raise heritage poultry and dairy goats in Wisconsin with a focus on conservation, performance, and ethical breeding. Our herds include Mini Nubian, Oberhasli, and Guernsey dairy goats, along with rare and threatened poultry breeds raised for health, temperament, and long-term sustainability.

Heritage Poultry

Access our heritage poultry husbandry guides or check our current availability to buy your next cold-hardy birds.

Dairy Goats

Learn how we manage our performance herd with our care guides or see how to buy your next goat.

About Us: Growing Roots

After years of moving from place to place in the U.S. Navy, Ken met Jess in Illinois. In search of a place to put down roots and turn a shared dream into reality, they relocated together to Mishicot, Wisconsin.

Combining Ken’s background raising horses in East Texas with Jess’ lifelong experience managing a “small zoo” of traditional and exotic pets in the Chicago suburbs, JK Herd It All was born. What began as an idea has grown into an intentional breeding and education project focused on functional, durable animals.

Because we both work full-time professional jobs – Ken in nuclear operations training and Jess as a senior software engineer – our project is built on sustainable, realistic systems designed to work in the real world.

If we’re slow to reply, we’re probably at work, feeding something, fixing something, or chasing something – often all at once.

We Herd It All

Heritage & Designer Chickens

We raise heritage chicken breeds that are docile, cold-hardy, and excellent foragers, plus a few designer chicken breeds chosen for colorful eggs from blue to deep chocolate brown.

We often have hatching eggs, chicks, pullets, and adult birds from lines bred toward APA SOP per the American Poultry Association, and we work with experienced master breeders to improve type and temperament.

Pilgrim Geese

Pilgrim Geese are an autosexing heritage goose breed listed as Threatened by The Livestock Conservancy and developed in the Midwest for utility and calm temperaments.

They’re among the quietest and most docile geese (but still not chicken-quiet). We’re involved with waterfowl groups like the International Waterfowl Breeders Association and may offer goose hatching eggs, goslings, dames, and ganders in spring.

Mini Nubian Dairy Goats

Mini Nubian dairy goats combine nearly the milk volume of Nubian dairy goats with the rich, sweet milk traits of Nigerian Dwarf goats, in an ideal in-between size for practical home dairy use.

Our herd is registered with MDGA and TMGR under JKShrunkTheKids. Each spring, we may have Mini Nubian kids and adults from proven Top Ten milking lines, bred for production, sound structure, and steady temperaments well suited for family-scale dairying.

Oberhasli Dairy Goats

Oberhasli dairy goats are Swiss-descended, calm, steady, and quietly confident, producing sweet, clean-tasting milk. They’re also valued as hardy trail packing goats with strong, functional structure.

Our Oberhasli are registered with the American Dairy Goat Association (ADGA) under JKHerdItAll, and we’re members of the Oberhasli Breeders of America. Spring availability may include American Oberhasli kids and adults from champion-packed pedigrees.

Guernsey Dairy Goats

Guernsey dairy goats are a rare, extremely docile, hardy dairy goat breed from the Isle of Guernsey (not to be confused with Guernsey cattle). Their sweet milk typically falls between Oberhasli and Mini Nubians in butterfat.

Our Guernseys are dual registered with ADGA and the British Goat Society (BGS) under JKHerdItAll, and we’re members of Guernsey Goat Breeders of America. We run a structured breed-up program, so spring offerings will vary by stage, from Experimental (IR) to Purebred (BG).

Honey Bees

We run Minnesota Hygienic Italian and VSH Wisconsin honey bees, focusing on mite-resistant bees after years of losses to Varroa destructor despite testing and treatment.

We stay connected through Lloyd Street Bees and the Brown County Beekeepers Association. If you spot a honey bee swarm, reach out – depending on access and equipment, we may assist. Raw local honey and beeswax are seasonal.

Fresh Produce, Preserves & Ferments

We grow seasonal fresh produce and occasionally offer small-batch preserves and fun ferments when timing and conditions allow, keeping it practical and based on what we actually have growing.

Rather than a farmers market for now, we keep availability for produce, poultry, and eggs in one place through our Farmish storefront, which reflects what we currently have available or expect to have very soon.