At Slate Brook Farm we raise a variety of animals.  However, we have found our first love to be the fainting goat.  Fainting goats are also known as nervous goats, wooden leg goats, scared goats or Tennessee Fainting Goats.  Fainting goats get their name from a condition known as myotonia congenita.  This harmless condition presents itself when the goat is startled or excited.  The goats' leg muscles stiffen causing them to walk with stiff  legs and/or fall over to the ground with their legs rigid.  The fainting goat's docile nature and unique trait make this animal an easy, fun breed to raise.

Over the past couple year we have been carefully selecting our herd and presently have around 40 goats. Our goats  have come from locations in Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Ohio, New York, Oklahoma and New Hampshire from experienced, registered breeders.  This has allowed us to expand our herd with the pedigrees of different breeders and to have bucks and does that are not related for future breeding.  We have mostly small to medium size fainters in variety of colors, long and short hair and some with blue eyes.  Our goal is to produce healthy, structurely correct myotonics with great dispositions.


We are  proud members of the Myotonic Goat Registry (MGR) and the American Livestock Breeds Conservancy (ALBC).   You can read more about this breed of goat on either of these websites.