Showing posts with label goat. Show all posts
Showing posts with label goat. Show all posts
Saturday, August 29, 2020

Memorial Painting

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My memorial painting of Paloma with her sweet, deceased pet baby goat Stormy. I’m not a good painter by any means - in fact at some point d...
Wednesday, April 13, 2011

Letter to the Vetrinarian

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I got the results of the necropsy on Sunshine. Here is the letter I wrote to my vet's office: To whom it may concern: On Monday April 11...
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This One Really Hurts (Bad Year for Baby Goats)

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Sunshine is dead. She was the doeling from Flopsy's triplets. The prettiest goat, the one we had decided to keep, the spotty doeling I...
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Saturday, February 19, 2011

Beautiful, Difficult Day (Beating Myself Up)

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This morning dawned bright and clear, with that crystalline sharpness that follows a hard frost. On my way out to the animals, I could see m...
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Sunday, October 31, 2010

Gimpy Goat and No More Milk

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This is Django. She is one of the original three goats we bought when we moved here, and now she is the only La Mancha I have (La Manchas ar...
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Thursday, October 28, 2010

Great Goat (Manly Food)!

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Yesterday, I made goat for dinner. Obviously, we have eaten some of our goats before. We have butchered kids two years in a row now, and eve...
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Thursday, August 27, 2009

State of the Farm, Late Summer

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Django eating thistles. The goats do eat thistles, but not with great enthusiasm and not nearly enough of them to make a dent in the great s...
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Monday, July 27, 2009

Mastitis

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Flopsy has mastitis in her left teat. I'm taking her to the vet today. So far she's had two doses of IM penicillin and two doses of ...
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Monday, June 1, 2009

Cutest Baby Goat in History!

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Flopsy's baby, born while I was at my sister's today. Why oh why oh why is it a boy???? 
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Friday, April 3, 2009

Goodbye, Nutmeg.

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Nutmeg was the very first baby born on the farm. Our first baby goat, by a minute or so, until his sister Flopsy was born. Our only boy, and...
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Wednesday, December 31, 2008

Visiting Billy

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Just to try and tie up any loose ends, I had my neighbor bring over her billy goat, Kramer. I'll get a picture of him up soon, because h...
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Sunday, December 28, 2008

I Hate Breeding Goats

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Xana is back in heat, along with Django and her baby Valentine. So far, we've paid $150 in breeding fees and had two failures that we kn...
Tuesday, December 23, 2008

Digging Out

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The mountains are out today, for the first time in well over a week. It's been one record breaking day after another here, temperatures ...
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Friday, December 12, 2008

Failed Goat Sex

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Iris isn't pregnant. She is out there "flagging," waving her tail around to send a message to any nearby bucks that's she...
Thursday, December 4, 2008

Shock Happy

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Hooray! The electric fence has been working for three whole days now! And the goats are starting to wise up. At first they were getting shoc...
Monday, December 1, 2008

Great Goat Escape

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Nobody I know has the troubles I do with containing their livestock. Remember the chickens that almost started a neighborly feud? Remember w...
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Friday, November 28, 2008

Confused about Conception

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I'm confused about whether or not my does are bred. Let's see, Xana was bred over the course of four days starting about November 12...
Monday, November 24, 2008

Funny Farm Fotos

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Not much going on on the farm these days. Just keeping up with feeding six goats, three of them pregnant; three alpacas; a pony; and one ver...
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Monday, November 17, 2008

Successful Goat Sex!

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Yesterday we went to pick up Xana from the breeder, and brought Iris and Flopsy to be bred by the same buck. We hung around for a while talk...
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Saturday, November 15, 2008

Xana Update

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Xana has been successfully bred! Well, of course I don't know if she's pregnant yet, but my friend told me she'd seen the buck m...