Thank you for your interest in our animals.

Welcome to Barnowl Farm's brand new website! After contemplating a website for many years, we have finally gotten around to it. However, fair warning this is definitely a work in progress, so we apologize for many of the pages being under construction. It seems like most things are works in progress when balancing work, college, and having goats! Nevertheless, we sincerely hope that this site helps you find what you are looking for. But if you have any questions whatsoever, please don't hesitate to call or email us, or even stop by the farm!

Barnowl LaManchas is owned by Ardis Lyons and Mariah Acton, we are located in beautiful Vancouver, Washington. The herd's foundation doe was Tempo Mariah's Selena, an Experimental LaMancha-Saanen given to us by Laurie Acton in 1995. For the next few years we remained primarly an offshoot of the Tempo herd. In 1999, we established the Barnowl herd name and have since become a prospering American and Purebred LaMancha herd, we continue to have strong ties to the Tempo herd and are extremely fortunate to share in the rapidly improving genetics.

Having began with an experimental doe, our herd looks to epitomize the LaMancha ideal as the American breed: incorporating the strength and productivity of the Saanen breed, while maintaining and enhancing the vigorous personality, devoted temperament, longevity, and characteristic small ears of the LaMancha breed. Over a decade after the birth of our foundation doe, we are pleased to announce that we continue to strive and occasionally obtain this goal.

In 2006, Mariah was given two lovely White-Haven Oberhasli from Jeanne White. We enjoy the diversity that these two lovely does bring to our herd, however, they are a "one generation" breed at our farm as all of their kids are for sale each year. Today our LaMancha herd encompasses a wide variety of national-quality blood lines, and with star milkers, SGCH show does, and Linear Appraised Excellents we are proud to introduce our magnificent and rewarding herd. Thank you for your interest in our herd and feel free to contact us anytime.