After months of prepping our bucks and teaser does, and despite a few kinks, we had a VERY successful collection with the help of a new friend who let us use her farm – and another who let us use her teaser doe when NONE
We have some VERY exciting plans for next season! Dr. Sarah Jane Owens has worked tirelessly with partners in the UK to be able to import new Royal Golden Guernsey semen to the US, for the first time in something like 18 years. Two bucks
She’s BACK! Sooo… we know we’re downsizing and all that, but one promise we make to our buyers is that we’ll do our best to help if they ever need to rehome goats we’ve sold them. We can’t always take them back, but Jess has
It seems like we only ever remember to post in here when we’re going through some sort of crisis, but things are mostly fine! We are very, very low on funds and have had to make some heart-wrenching herd cuts that we hadn’t expected yet,
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
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
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
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.
This was our biggest kidding season ever, and we have now learned our limits! We’ve had trouble keeping up with the birds again this year, so we’re downsizing a bunch in both areas. The Goats 2025 Total Kids Born: 16 Bucks, 20 Does! Here’s a