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Cashmere Goats

“Specializing in Red Cashmere Goats”

Breeding Stock and Fiber Wethers

with Naturally Colored Cashmere Fiber

for Spinning and Weaving

Foxmoor Farm is a small farm located in the hills above Silverton, Oregon. We bought our first Cashmere goat in 1991. Our goal is to produce solid colored cashmere goats with good conformation and an even length and style of cashmere fiber for spinning and weaving. Our goats have short guard hair and the cashmere fiber grows through the guard hair to produce a clear naturally colored fiber that is 2 ½" long with coverage over the entire body.

American Cashmere Goats are descendants of feral goats imported from Australia crossed with native Spanish goats from Texas. Breeders discovered that these goats grew a “cashmere” fiber similar to goats from the Middle East and China. Developed and refined in large commercial herds in Australia and Tasmania, a few Australian goats were imported in 1980 to begin the cashmere industry in the U.S.A.

The largest of the three fiber goat breeds, Cashmere Goats are double coated goats with a down fiber known as “cashmere” grown for warmth and harsher guard hair on the body. The cashmere fiber color is not the same as the body color. The colder the weather, the more cashmere fiber they produce. In Oregon the cashmere fiber grows from September to February. Babies grow their cashmere fiber continually throughout their first year. Our adult goats shed their extra guard hair and are smooth in appearance throughout the summer. Cashmere fiber becomes visible on our adult goats usually in early September. By December the entire herd is fully covered in their winter fiber. [See the end pictures of yearlings above the text.] In the Spring when the weather is warmer the cashmere fiber is naturally shed and is harvested by either combing or shearing.

We hand comb and hand de-hair all our cashmere fiber to ensure a quality fiber from start to finish. We produce a natural colored cashmere fiber that can be used 100% in spinning and weaving that will make a beautiful project that will last for many years. We process all our fiber at our farm and it takes several months to finish each fleece. A limited amount of our cashmere fiber is available only at our booth at the Black Sheep Gathering in late June.

Our emphasis since 2003 has been the development of our line of “Red Cashmere Goats”. We have reached our goal and now our herd is red - The body color is a dark red-orange with a darker red head, legs, back ridge and tail. On the pedigrees, several generations of red goats from our own breeding now appear in the background. As a result, our goats now get darker with age and do not fade out in color. The cashmere fiber color of our herd is almond, yellow and apricot. Most of our fiber is almond and only 1 in 4 red goats produce the rarer yellow and apricot fiber color.

Farm visits are always welcome. We are available from

March 1st to September 1st but please call or e-mail us in advance.

For the well being

of our goats,

we suspend all

farm visits during

breeding season

and the

birth of the babies.

But we are available

by phone or by e-mail

if you have questions