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We officially survived our first-ever goat show! Yesterday, we headed to the Northern Goat Classic in Bloomer, Wisconsin, with a trailer full of goats, an impressive amount of stuff, and absolutely no idea what we were doing. Thankfully, a few experienced friends helped us figure

We’ve been raising Mini Nubians, Oberhasli, and Guernseys long enough to feel like we have a handle on what kidding season looks like. This year reminded us that goats didn’t get that memo. Spring 2026 threw a lot at us – record rainfall, record mud,

I don’t even know where to start with this month. If you’re in northern Wisconsin, you’ve lived it. If you’re not – we’ve had round after round of rain since early April – rivers over their banks, broken dams, roads that have literally washed out,

If you had asked us a year ago whether we were planning to add llamas to the property, the honest answer would have been “probably eventually.” I’ve wanted them for years. Ken has been… less convinced. So how did we finally end up with llamas?

Our first kids of the season were born on Wednesday – DDB triplets! When we first bought Candy back, we brought her to the vet and confirmed pregnancy. The ultrasound showed twins, which is what we were fully expecting. Two. Manageable. Predictable. As she grew

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

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 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

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

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

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.

The top two killers of goats are pneumonia and internal parasites. There isn’t an easy way to predict pneumonia in a herd, but for parasites, we can do fecals. Most vets will be willing to do them, even if they don’t see goats. Our livestock

We’ve still been unable to complete our pairings for Lasty and Midnight, our final two planned does of the season. We hadn’t seen any heats out of either of them at all, so we decided to get help from our team of vets. They suggested

On Friday, we received our final update on Meow – the lab results were inconclusive because there were no relevant bacteria or parasites found in the culture, but their findings when looking at his intestines indicated poisoning, enterotoxemia, or coccidiosis. When we went out to

On the exact day we started our latest IVF cycle in the effort to overcome our unexplained infertility, our very best buckling, *B 4Petesake The Cat’s Meow, started acting sick. He was self-isolating and not being his usual sweet, nosey self. The next day, massive

When I went to check on everyone yesterday morning, I heard an unfamiliar voice in the doe pen – looking into one of the calf huts we’re preparing for the kidding due next week, I found Penny cleaning a brand new baby! As I crawled

In about 45 days, we’ll have this year’s first goat kids on the ground, and we can’t wait! Here are some of the big-ticket items we’ll be using this year: Kidding Stalls We had planned to purchase some nice, heavy-duty Sydell pens and a ShelterLogic

After losing our buck Mark this spring and then struggling with pneumonia a couple months ago, we REALLY wanted to get our boys collected this fall, but weren’t able to make it out to the scheduled stop. But since then, we’ve been learning more about

We’ve officially performed all but 3 of our planned pairings at least once, so now we’re playing the waiting game to make sure everyone sticks. We’ve had to retry a couple so far, and poor Penny miscarried at least one embryo last week. Since all

It’s officially that exciting and nerve-wracking time we’ve been building up to, Breeding Season for our goats! Over the weekend, a few girls were in standing heat and had their first rendezvous with the boys: Riesling was bred to Maui. Penny was bred to Maui.

The pneumonia saga continues! After full courses of Draxxin and Resflor Gold, we thought we had kicked the disease. But with another couple weeks of rain and temps bouncing from 40 to 80, everyone is acting “off” again. Nobody seems SICK sick like they did

Please note that we are not medical experts and the following should in no way be considered medical advice. We always recommend consulting a veterinarian. What we did below was in cooperation with our (amazing) livestock vet. We are still dealing with pneumonia in both