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One of our Worst Fears: Mastitis

On the day of our August milk test, our poor girl Pickles took a brutal headbutt to the udder. Her right half swelled up super badly and she produced about a teaspoon of milk. Any trauma can open the udder up to one of our

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Busy, Busy!

We’re chugging along through our busiest goat season to date, with not a ton of time for much else! We’ve been trying SO hard to schedule buck collection so that we can sell off some of our stinky guys and had finally found a couple

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Our First Linear Appraisal

We had our first Linear Appraisal this Wednesday, and it was super informative! While prepping everyone, we learned that Ken is a master at clipping goats – he did it waaaay more evenly than Jess did! We haven’t taken decent pics of the girls yet

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A Break from Critters: Our Fertility Journey

Trigger warnings: Miscarriage, drug addict contractors, IVF, infertility, doctors ignoring patients While working to run our little farm, we’ve also been dealing with personal fertility issues for the past 3 years. It has been exhausting! In 2022, we decided to give having kids a go.

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Our First Flipper

We knew it’d happen sooner or later, and honestly, we probably wouldn’t care if the person hadn’t gone out of their way to mislead us & then block us. As the person repeatedly said after being caught, there are two sides to every story. Here’s

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Aaaand Another Goat Loss

Sorry to keep posting all the death and despair in this blog, but we’re hoping it helps others in our situation! About two weeks ago, we both came down with bad stomach flu, and at the same time, a few doelings also started acting sick.

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