Lots of News

Wow! It’s been almost a month since I last wrote! Sorry about that everybody!

What all has gone on in the last month . . .

We’ve sold four baby and two adult goats. Jupiter and Capella, North Star’s twins, are together in a great home in Texas. Penelope, Piper’s spotted doe kid, went to a loving family in Kansas. Spur, one of Andrina’s buck kids, has taken a position as future herd sire on a friends farm. And last but not least, two of our adult bucks, Bond and Trooper, moved to a dairy where their services were desperately needed.

 

 

 We discovered an owl nest in the hollow of our big cottonwood tree, and it has been great fun watching the babies grow and jump from the nest and such.

Due to the excess of milk we are currently experiencing, we have been making lots and lots of soap. Recently we tried taking it to a local farmer’s market and did really well! So far we have tried, I believe, five different scents including Lemongrass-Mint, Pearberry, and Ginger Pear. We also made some bath salts in lavendar scent and lemon scent. I attempted to make a handmilled rose-water but failed miserably. From now on I plan to leave the soap-making in more capable hands…

The last couple of days have found most people working on cleaning up storm damage in the goat pens. It was a lot of work, but worth it and the goat pens now look lovely.

The chicks born last month are doing well, all except for the ones which the dog ate, and are growing very large indeed.

In other news, some of the family went to a Goat Field day at Langston University last month where they gleaned quite a bit of useful information. Mommy in particular came away with all sorts of new marketing ideas and has been working on implementing them.

I guess that’s all for now, but I’ll be trying to post more in the near future. If you’ve read this, please leave a comment to let us know your here!

Bucklings, Soap, and Baby Chickies

Early Friday morning at 2:30 AM, we had two more lovely babies. Andrina, our sole Nubian sr. doe presented us with beautiful twin boys. We’re selling one of the handsome bucklings to some friends, but the other is available if anyone is interested. You have find their bloodlines here, leave a comment with your contact info if your interested (don’t worry, I won’t post it).

Now that we have so much milk, we’re experimenting with making soap again.

In other news. We have chicks hatching out! The eggs in our incubator are finally beginning to hatch and so far we have twelve baby chicks and more hatching. Exciting stuff!

Updates!

Wow! It’s been a really long time since I last updated this blog. Sorry about that! Unfortunately, our family has been suffering from the crud, and I have been working on some big projects for school. Anyhow, as to updates:

On March 24 Fiona kidded to twins, a doe (Fauna Fey, the brown one in the above pic) and a buck (Sniper, the white and black one in the pic). They weighed nine and eleven pounds at birth! They are both beautiful and we are hoping to make room for both of them in our herd.

Reflection kidded on April 4^th. She had triplets, two does and a buck, which is two more than we expected! Her delivery was the hardest we have had yet. In the above pic, the buck, Son Dancer, is on the far left and the other two are the does, Glimmer and Sparkle.

 

April 4^th Mikaela went out to milk, and when she went to get Reflection she discovered her lying in her house. She was in labor so Mikaela moved her to the “birthing pen”. After several hours it was obvious something wasn’t right. Mommy “went in” and discovered a kid was positioned head and legs back. Flec wasn’t going to be able to deliver a kid shoulder first so we had to reposition it. Mommy managed to find and pull the legs forward, but couldn’t get the kids head. Mommy and Daddy gently pulled the kid while Mikaela sat with Flec trying to keep her calm.  Flec managed to deliver the kid, a very thin buckling, but it wasn’t breathing. Mommy gave it mouth to mouth and it began to gasp! He was soon followed by two sisters, both healthy.  All are doing well now. That was plenty of excitement for this year!

 

Finally, we have sold three of this year’s kids so far: Jupiter and Capella (North Star’s kids) went to a wonderful home in Texas and Penelope (Piper’s spotted doe kid) went to one in Kansas.

 

Here’s a few more pics we’ve taken recently. Enjoy! And if you read this post, leave a comment so we know you’re here!