But it started off in 1990, I actually took my first trip to Nepal. Well, it’s a it’s kind of a… windy road, I guess, just like we have in Nepal, many windy roads. How on earth did you ever, you know, wind up halfway around the world working with goats in Nepal? I think it was on the Caprine Supply website, they have a fundraiser on there that if you buy this cute little goat that a portion of the money goes towards the work that you are doing in Nepal, so they’re… I know this is such a fascinating story. Yes, this is, I was so excited when I read about what you’re doing. But we’re not going to talk about any of that stuff today as fascinating it as it is what we are going to talk about is the work that Dan has been doing with goats in Nepal. And in fact, he has even been the president, as well as held several other offices in the American Dairy Goat Association. And he’s been a judge with the American Dairy Goat Association since 1976. Today I am going to be talking to Dan Laney, who has been raising dairy goats since 1972. Listen right here or on your favorite platform…Ī villager who brought her goat to get castrated at the Kavre training session Transcript And we also talk about how you can help! Learn more about the Worldwide Goat Project/Nepal here.Ĭomplete transcript below. Then we talk about what he did on subsequent trips, as well as what he plans to do in the future. In this episode, Dan talks about what he learned and how he originally was able to help the goats and the people who care for them. “After three days of shadowing the staff and how they were managing the herd, I started offering some suggestions and the rest is history!” My backpack strapped to my body and computer clutched with one hand while the other was holding tightly onto the driver! This was the beginning of a whole new chapter of my life!”
The very next day I was traveling in a bus for seven hours to a village called Dhumre, then whisked on the back of a motorcycle up a steep, curvy mountain road for 10 miles to the Goat Research Station (GRS), near Bandipur.
“The officials in the Ministry of Livestock that I had been meeting with asked if I would be willing to travel to the farm site where the Saanens were housed.
Dan talks about his original plan of importing Kiko semen and how it changed when he learned that a herd of Saanens had been imported to Nepal from the US ten months earlier and were struggling. That’s what we are talking about in this episode. All of a sudden I was on fire once again, and I know that my Mother was very happy with my choice to return to Nepal and actually do something of value for the people I had grown to love, not just enjoy them and their beautiful country, but become an active part of their lives!” I had taken almost two years off of traveling to Nepal while in the coma and being with my Mother. “I loved people, teaching, traveling, and goats,” and since he had traveled to Nepal on vacation many times since 1990, he said, “Nepal was a no brainer. Then his son gave him an idea to combine all of his passions. Thanks for that message, Mom!”īut he wasn’t quite sure what he should do. I better not waste what time I have here. It was like my Mother was saying to me to “get with it.” She was fine and was now with my dad and brother. I tapped into that spirit and decide to do more - to pay back to others what was given to me after coming out of the coma…. “Then one day as I was trying to climb back up out of this big, dark hole I had dug for myself I realized I did not need to grieve her passing but celebrate her life! She was not one to sit around complaining no matter how she felt or what she was dealing with. How does a goat breeder go from judging goat shows to helping people raise goats in Nepal? Prior to our interview in this episode, Dan Laney said to me via email that after he spent a month in a coma and then lost his mother to cancer, his life was drastically changed.
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