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Family Farm Milliron L Land & Livestock
We are fourth generation Kansas farmers
Our family has roots deep in the soil of northwest Kansas. This corner of our state averages about 17 inches of annual rainfall and much of our pastures are warm season native buffalo grass. Management of this highly nutritious range land is critical in dry years. To encourage grass health and clean up unwanted weeds we explored using goats in a portion of our pastures. We have been pleased with the results and have increased our herd size since we began in 2015.
As our knowledge has grown with our herd size, we are finding the direction we want to follow to improve herd quality as well. We have over 40 years of experience in the beef cattle industry and have chosen to raise composite cattle to attain a more predictable offspring with the F3 cross.
Our long term goal is to utilize this composite theory with our commercial goat herd and reach that F3 offspring that are 5/8 Kiko, 3/8 TexMaster; or 5/8 Kiko, 1/4 TexMaster, and 1/8 Boer. Currently we have a crossbred goat herd with the does high percentage Kiko or Spanish. Both breeds bring a strong natural parasite tolerance and good maternal traits. Although we sold the last of our TexMaster breeding bucks in 2020, those sires brought double muscling and added depth to our replacement doelings for three years. These doelings have grown up to be the core of our present herd.
The Kiko breeding bucks, which we now utilize, continue to add those traits for which the Kiko breed is known and respected... hardiness, mothering instincts and low maintenance. We are also beginning to select our top females for a small registered herd.
We have also continued with a core group of Foundation Kensing Spanish does purchased in 2020 and selectively expanded our full blood Spanish herd by retaining home-raised females. This program prioritizes preserving original Spanish goat genetics.
Steve & Kathy Launchbaugh, Owners & Operators
Milliron L
Land
& Livestock
Home of Registered & Commercial Meat Goats
HERD SIRES
rEGISTERED KIKO BUCKS Foundation kENSING sPANISH Bucks COMMERCIAL KIKO bucks
It has been a long dry spell in this country over the last 5 years. Pastures are being used on a minimal basis. Instead, we are using rotational grazing under pivot irrigation for the majority of the does. They are currently grazing some cane that has continued to regrow until we receive our first freeze of the season. That could be any day. Traditionally wheat follows the cane.
We have been seeing a lot of blue offspring in our herd with the addition of BWP Tough’s 921 Boy, son of PJM Copyright Tough over a daughter of Mr. Speckles, and 2 of his sons, MLL Cyclone and MLL Tsunami, all registered New Zealand Kikos.
Two other NZ Kiko bucks, son and grandson of SLS Katmandu (son of Cherokee Fiddler) came to us from Texas in 2023. Their genetics continue to add depth to our program and this year yielded us some outstanding registerable kids.
Our new pair of Kensing Spanish bucks purchased from Rocking X Ranch in 2025 were pastured with our Spanish does for the first time in the 2025-2026 breeding season.
Our fourth group was strictly commercial but we used a proven non-registered percentage Kiko buck and an unregistered son of BWP Tough’s 921 Boy that yielded some of our highest gaining kids in the herd.
The final does ran with a ranch-raised buck out of the Hemp’s Golden Boy line over a DRG Ghost Rider’s daughter. He is registered as MLL Ringleader.
Scroll through the pictures of some of this year’s kids and be your own judge, but we think we have a selection that favorably represents our herd and the meat goat industry.
BWP Tough’s 921 Boy
We added some B Bar W stock in 2022 when we purchased BWP Tough’s 921 Boy from Linda Holloway at Ponca City, Oklahoma. He is a double registered New Zealand and comes from the Copyright Tough line on top and a Mr. Speckle’s daughter maternally. He has the genetics and many of his kids carry his blue coloring and stout build.
MLL Tsunami & MLL Cyclone
Twin sons of Tough’s 921 Boy, Tsunami and Cyclone are home grown and carry many of the traits of their sire. Better photo pending.
SLS Buster
SLS Buster is a 100% New Zealand buck registered with the NKR. He is the son of SLS Katmandu and grandson of GHK Cherokee Fiddler and LAA General Custard. We purchased him from David Brewster of Midland, Texas.
BREW Eclipse
A son of SLS Buster and an SLS doe, Eclipse has many of the same traits of his sire. Registered with the NKR as a New Zealand, Eclipse was born in 2021. Eclipse also came to our farm from David Brewster and was raised by him in Texas.
MLL Ringleader
Ringleader is a homegrown son of LVL Pay Out, a Hemp’s Golden Boy off-spring. His dam is DRG Ghost Rider. He is a dual registered New Zealand buck and has brought depth and thickness to his sons and daughters.
Those who provided service and enhanced our herd genetics…
SLS Sanja Axle
Axle was an aggressive breeder. We kept or sold for breeding, a significant number of his daughters during the years we used him. Unfortunately, about a month after the completion of his third breeding season, he suddenly died and failed to have bred more than a handful of his does. That’s why we use clean-up bucks. He is a son of Valentino over a Mr. Speckle’s daughter and very large framed for a triplet. He was raised on Sanja Ranch in Oklahoma and is a parentage verified American Purebred registered with the NKR.
SAN Sam Elliot
With JTV Klondike on one side of his pedigree and MGR Titan’s Hammer on the other, SAN Sam Elliott had excellent parasite resistance in his genetics. He is registered with the AKGA as an American Purebred. He was born a twin in January 2017. Several of his daughters have also been added to our breed-up program.
Foundation Kensing Spanish
When we purchased our Kensing Spanish does from Whitworth Ranch’s foundation herd, we also purchased an unrelated buck. We used him exclusively on the foundation does to keep a pure bloodline until 2024. In 2025 we replaced him with two Rocking X Ranch sires so we can continue to keep 500’s daughters in our herd. These two bucks show a promising direction for our Spanish herd having completed one successful breeding and kidding season.