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adorable, friendly goat baby for sale
Meet Cinnamon! This Miniature Nubian sweetie-pie is going to need a new home in about six weeks. He has been disbudded, but he has all his boy parts at the moment, though he would make a lovely pet if...
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when goat mamas won’t nurse their kids
Last year we had Fancy as a first freshener (that’s what they call a first time goat mama, you gotta love goat terminology). Fancy was a bottle-fed baby herself, which is why I think she was totally...
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good-bye cinnamon! we’ll miss you!
They grow up so fast! Here he was, just a few minutes old: And here he is, just eight weeks later, a few minutes before he left us to live with his new family. Running and jumping and humping...
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come on, let’s go on a goat walk!
I’ve mentioned before that we take our goats on walks. The girls come along with us like dogs do, except, being goats, they hoover up fallen leaves like nobody’s business. Yellow tulip poplars leaves...
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how to hand milk a goat
Okay, you’re sitting at the milking stand, staring at an udder: what next??? I have previously written about how I milk my goats using a small hand-powered milker. I love my milker, I do. But it does...
View Articlethe worst part of having goats
…is selling the babies. That’s right, today is the day. Little Sam is moving on to his new family, in this case, a human family with eight (!!!) kids and a goat family of other minis and a few full...
View Articleto goat or not to goat
I’m considering selling the goats. I know, I know, it’s a tragedy. I love my goats! I adore the fresh milk, and, oddly, I enjoy the work of going out to the barn and feeding them, milking them,...
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goat kids, tandem nursing, and tmi
Fancy, our currently lactating goat, still, still, nurses Sally, her daughter. Sally is over a year old and is bigger than Fancy, but she still gets down on her knees to get to the Golden Udder of...
View Articlethe end of a chapter, good-bye goats and chicken
On Sunday, a gal who last year bought one of our goat babies, took our whole herd of four goatie girls home to her farm an hour southwest of here. We helped load the girls into the truck, waved...
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