Showing posts with label goats. Show all posts
Showing posts with label goats. Show all posts
Wednesday, September 20, 2023

New Buck (Breeding Season)

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We sold Jupiter, our gorgeous Nubian buck, a few months ago. We have used him for three seasons now and it’s time for some new blood.   (se...
Friday, July 29, 2022

Balking a Buck (Apron Antics)

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Breeding season is here.  It seems awfully early, being still high summer, but the days are getting shorter and that is the signal that sen...
Thursday, July 14, 2022

They’re BAAAAAAACK (Prey Animal Strategy)

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Right before bed, I decided to go out and check on the goats one more time, on the off-chance that mama Clio had found her babies. I was fai...
Sunday, June 19, 2022

Meet the Herd

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Clio (pregnant first freshener) with her mom Bitsy.  Buck of many names. In keeping with our tradition of using weather or atmospheric or sp...
Wednesday, May 4, 2022

Coyote Blues (Adios Cosmos)

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I thought we were going to have a great year for baby goats. Last year was just terrible, we lost three out of four babies. But this year, ...
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Wednesday, April 13, 2022

First Babies of 2022 (Bitsy Babies)

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Bitsy surprised us today by quietly popping out twins with no fanfare this evening. We had just finished trimming all the hooves - a horribl...
Thursday, February 10, 2022

Goat Totin’ Man Totin’ Goats

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It recently came to my attention that there are still people out there reading my blog. Apparently, there’s a high school boy out there, a f...
Friday, March 5, 2021

Goodbye to a Great Goat (The End of an Era)

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      Iris gives the girls an early sex ed lesson, farm style My first goat was Iris, a beautiful Nubian about a year and a half old, a firs...
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Sunday, August 2, 2020

The Horns of the Dilemma (to Disbud or Not to Disbud)

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Seven A.M. on a Saturday. We are all peacefully asleep, dreaming the dreams of the innocent. There is no alarm clock set; we will wake when ...
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Sunday, July 19, 2020

High Cheese Season 2020 (Making Do)

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            A middle stage in the making of cheddar  In last week’s post on preserving, I forgot to include cheese. Cheese is kind of the wh...
Friday, June 5, 2020

Just Cute Goat Pictures

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Paloma and Flopsy’s baby boy. I can’t decide who is cuter.  My goat-totin’ man, totin’ Bitsy and Bootsy, Christmas’ two doelings.  Hope bei...
Tuesday, June 2, 2020

DQ- OH WAIT ITS OVER!!

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On Friday, the governor announced that Washington state was ending the stay-home order as of Monday morning. All that really means is that ...
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Saturday, May 30, 2020

DQ74 - Double Surprise

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Yesterday Flopsy, our second oldest goat at thirteen, surprised the heck out of us by popping out a single baby buckling, quietly and with n...
Saturday, May 23, 2020

DQ67 am- More Baby Goats

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Polly finally gave birth today. I’ve been expecting her to do so for about a week, ever since I saw her kneeling with a long string of ambe...
Friday, May 22, 2020

State of the Farm - DQ66

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Friday, May 15, 2020

DQ59 - Baby Goats!

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Paloma holding Bootsy, one of Christmas’s twin doelings  Christmas cleans up Bitsy, her other twin doeling. Christmas was the first to pop,...
Monday, April 8, 2019

......Or Does He? (Warning: Graphic Photo)

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First, please enjoy this photo of adorable, healthy baby goats frolicking in the springtime, all right with the world. This is the reality f...
Sunday, March 24, 2019

Four is Too Many

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Christmas gave birth this morning, unaided, to quadruplets. They are all up and nursing, appear to be full term and healthy, and of course ...
Friday, June 8, 2018

Bloodsuckers (Parasite Problems)

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Dairy goats are plagued by parasites. It's just a fact. Some areas of the country are worse than others, and in some areas resistance ...
Tuesday, May 15, 2018

Summer in Oaxaca (Abbreviated Cheese)

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This cheese season will be a short one: we are going to Mexico for most of the summer. Over the past three years we have been slowly, by fit...