New Video Reveals Ongoing Neglect at Local Goat Dairy Farm Currently Under Investigation

For Immediate Release:
December 22, 2025

Contact:
Moira Colley 202-483-7382

A second PETA investigator who just finished working at Grand Barr Dairy found that goats continue to suffer from painful and debilitating conditions with no veterinary care—more than two months after PETA submitted similar evidence to the Malheur County Sheriff. The facility is apparently under investigation by the Oregon Department of Justice; however, despite the Sheriff’s promises, no charges have been formally filed and no animals have received any aid. PETA’s letter to the Malheur County Sheriff about the latest findings is available here and new footage is available here.

PETA’s latest investigator found that:

• Tina—a long-crippled goat whom workers also refer to as “Kickstand”—still can’t walk. A dairy owner told PETA’s second investigator—as she did the first more than three months ago—that she “should just put [Tina] down.” Instead, she’s left Tina to suffer for at least 17 weeks and counting.
• Dahlia still limps slowly and often kneels to avoid putting pressure on her front feet—apparently due to severe arthritis, for which the owners provide no pain relief. They have denied her veterinary care for at least 15 weeks and counting and left her in a pen with a buck to be impregnated.
• A thin goat walked with a severe limp and was so reluctant to stand or move that workers repeatedly mistook her for dead. An owner admitted that this goat should also be put down but has left her to suffer for more than six weeks and counting.
• An owner failed for more than seven weeks and counting to provide veterinary care to two emaciated goats—who a worker said had worms—and said that goats used for milk are “meant to [be] thin” and that one is “just old.”
• More goats had abscesses likely caused by the highly contagious bacterial infection caseous lymphadenitis. The owners provided no care for these goats.
• Some goats still have painfully overgrown hooves, and sick and underweight goats—including one who had sores on her feet—were still kept amid their feces and urine in pens that went uncleaned for up to four weeks at a time. The sole full-time worker responsible for trimming ~250 goats’ hooves and mucking stalls admitted that it was more than she could keep up with.
• The owners left goat remains in an unoccupied outdoor pen for more than a week. Another goat’s remains were left in a pen with the owners’ dogs for a week.

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