Lady had arguably the best FF udder in our herd in 2024, so we made hardly any effort to sell her kids. After we decided once and for all to retain Jolene’s littermate brother, Monkey, it only made sense to keep her, too!
3rd Gen. MDGA American AMN20789
DOB 02/24/24
(Photos courtesy of Skillman Ranch)
The good news is, our last Welsummer rooster is still fertile! The bad news is, he and his hen have a super low hatch rate going on. This is the only chick out of 2 dozen eggs we incubated. SO we can tentatively offer small groups of chicks this year, but sorry, no hatching eggs!
Our group originally came from Deer Run farm a few years ago. Their eggs have speckles, but they’re also dark - even darker than our Marans eggs were! Which wasn’t saying a ton, they were around 4-6 on the Marans egg color chart.
#welsummerchicken #chickens #heritagebreed #hatchingeggs
May 5
We’ve got our little Boomerang back from her unfortunate situation and she’s definitely thinner and her voice is hoarse from crying, but she’s happily eating hay and drinking a ton of water now. We’ve got her in quarantine while we work out a really nice pet home for her, with someone more experienced with goats!
#goats #petgoats #mininubian #hopefulhappyending
May 4
Okay, gather ‘round the milk can, it’s time for real talk after some drama today!
We’re touchy and exhausted after driving 10+ hours and spending $2500 last week to try to save the life of a doeling we had planned to sell for maybe $250, and then driving another 5 hours crazy late last night for her necropsy.
We will fight to the death to provide the critters we raise the best lives and/or endings that we can.
The drama today involved a different doeling. This is being resolved now, thanks to the help of some very kind folks who helped to restore our faith in humanity, so we deleted it.
BUT this is a friendly reminder: if you purchase a goat from us and it doesn’t work out, please let us know and give us the chance to buy them back - the right of first refusal/buyback is in the Terms of Sale that we provide with each non-market goat. By buying anything from us, you are agreeing to our terms that can be found on our site & our OpenHerd profile.
We don’t guarantee that we’ll always be able to take a goat back, but we’ll try! Especially if it has only been a couple days and if they’re still in quarantine.
Sorry, we unfortunately can’t do the same with poultry - certain goat diseases are scary, but most bird ones are way, way worse, and we can’t risk our flocks like that.
May 1
Two blue-eyed doelings for Green Gables Amazing Black Petunia and Mosaic’s Smooth Criminal *B!
One has dark brown moonspots that will most likely lighten over time and the other is almost solid black. It looks like both might be polled.
2025 Tally So Far: 16 Bucks, 19 does!
Just one doe left to kid in a couple weeks - Windscape JB Last Call!
Apr 26
It’s hard to tell in this pic, but this right here is something we’ve waited 2 years for - two pipped Pilgrim Goose eggs! Most years, we grab and incubate all eggs, but last year, we let the geese try to hatch their own, and both groups picked terrible nesting spots & ended up with zero goslings.
Apologies to those on our goose eggs waitlists - now that it’s warm enough to safely ship, they stopped laying. But we’re incubating somewhere around 30 eggs, which will hopefully give us at least a few goslings! Pilgrims are notorious for fertility issues - ours usually have around a 75% hatch rate, which is considered really, really good 🤞🙏🤞
#hatchingeggs #geese #domesticgeese #waterfowl #pilgrimgeese #pilgrimgoose #heritagebreeds #rarebreeds
Apr 24
Our emergency that we mentioned last week was related to two doelings that we skipped posting yesterday - they both came down with digestive issues right as we humans were also fighting food poisoning or stomach flu or whatever it was!
Some people consider animals completely disposable and will immediately hard cull them if they prove to be a little complicated or cost more than a couple bucks to treat. We just can’t do that - maybe it’s from growing up with ultra-sensitive exotics and horses, but we feel that it’s our responsibility to do everything in our power to give every single critter in our care the best possible chance at life. If we didn’t, what kind of stewards would we be?
SO, after our regular vet (who is amazing btw) was at a loss, we packed up the doelings and drove the 3 hours down to UW Madison’s large animal hospital.
Over the past few days, they did a zillion different tests and scans and, as we all suspected/hoped, one doeling just had a bit of coccidiosis - there were zero oocysts on any of the fecals taken by us, our vet, or UW, and she was still acting off after courses of both Baycox and Albon, but she’s recovering now after ultra high doses of ponazuril.
Our other girl was more complicated - she had some sort of intestinal obstruction, but thankfully, it seems to have passed now! She’s still not fully better yet, but she’s getting there and both girls were cleared to come back home today 💜
Apr 22
We finally got updated pics of all but two of the older doelings! We’ll provide an update about those two later.
Some more or less cooperated, others not so much 😅 We’ll add deets to these pics on FB - some will be up for grabs!
#goats #dairygoats #kiddingseason #babygoats #goatkids #mininubian #oberhasligoats #guernseygoats
Apr 20
These two at 12 hours of age are already ridiculous troublemakers, trying their best to jailbreak and visit the doe herd 😅
We normally pull all kids at birth and heat treat/pasteurize everything, but we’ve got an unexpected emergency and can’t feed these babies as often as they need it today, so we’re letting Kirlia take care of them until we can step back in. Hopefully they’ll stimulate her to increase her production, too!
#goats #dairygoats #oberhasligoats #babygoats #babygoat
Apr 18
A buck & doe for Ober-Boerd Kirlia and Sublime OBV Son of a Sinner, effortlessly born while Kirlia chowed down on hay and right before a giant thunderstorm that wasn’t in the forecast!
Kirlia doesn’t have a whole lot of colostrum for us to use, so we’re super thankful again for our backup supply from the other does and Premier 1 Shepherd’s Choice!
2025 Tally So Far: 16 Bucks, 17 Does 🙌
Apr 18
After a looong wait, this season’s first chicks are hatching! Svart Honas, Buckeyes, and Partridge Chanteclers in this round.
Some of the Svarts still have annoying white toe tips, but it looks like we managed to eradicate the (very few but present) white wingtips we were seeing, so it’s progress! It’s looking like our rooster might be part of the issue, so we’ll try swapping him out to see how our other guy does. We’ve only got the two, though, so we’ll just keep carrying on & selecting the best!
#chickens #hatchingeggs #rarebreed #rarebreedchickens #heritagebreed #buckeyechickens #chanteclerchickens #partridgechantecler #svarthona
Apr 16
We managed to snap a few updated pics of the bucklings yesterday while we kicked the youngest trio outside. A few of these guys are still up for grabs and would make really nice herdsires or pets!
A note on our pricing because some people seem a bit shell-shocked when they ask. All of our boys, if they go as pets/market, are 25-175 depending on age & whether we’re the ones wethering them. We’re happy to send most off that way. We offer VERY few doelings unregistered, but those are 100-350 depending on quality.
Registered pricing is more. We’re a performance herd and have stayed in line with or less than most others we’ve seen or worked with around the country. All registered kids start at 450 and go up depending on individual traits & recent pedigrees - we’re talking parents/grandparents, not way distant extended family. We’re still relatively new, so we won’t be asking 800+ for any of our kids (which we’ve gladly paid!) - but our most promising this year might be up to 750. And no, we don’t ask more for fun colors.
We’re not price gouging and certainly aren’t making a profit - we pay to provide the best care that we can for our critters & spoil them rotten, plus the performance programs are also pricey. And don’t even get us started on the genetics we’ve brought in! Seriously, Ken never needs to know exactly how much we’ve spent on goats 🤣
But to us, it’s worth it! We’re doing what we can to help promote and actually improve our chosen breeds, not crank out cheap sale barn critters. Not that there’s anything wrong with that - it’s just two different markets.
We DO sometimes have culls listed at sale barn prices, and we do our best to be fully transparent about all real and perceived faults for those ones.
Apr 10
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