Showing posts with label goats. Show all posts
Showing posts with label goats. Show all posts
Thursday, September 10, 2026

Copper for the Goats

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Goats can be tough to manage.  Around this time of the year, you can notice their coat becomes dull instead of its normal shiny appearance. ...
Monday, March 9, 2026

Bunny's Baby

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I'm re-reading James Herriot's books and am in the middle of "Every Living Thing."  He's talking about lambing season ...
Sunday, February 1, 2026

Just Browsing...

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Directly behind our 5 acres is a little patch of overgrown woods with live oaks, willow, China Berry and Chinese Tallow trees.  It's als...
Sunday, October 26, 2025

Mending Fences

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Last week I pulled in the driveway from work and something was just not right, but I couldn't put my finger on what was wrong.  Then I n...
Monday, September 8, 2025

The Trouble With Goats

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Goats are interesting creatures.  Always getting into trouble.  In fact, just this morning I woke up to find Agnes, one of our goats, had go...
Thursday, May 8, 2025

The Kidding Season Comes to a Close

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We had five momma goats pregnant.  Popcorn, the billy, has proven to be quite the fertile fellow.  One by one, they kidded.  Bunny had a sti...
Thursday, April 10, 2025

It's Kidding Time!

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Springtime is exciting!  Hens laying more eggs, grass is growing, foliage on trees is a vibrant green.  And, goats begin to kid.  Tricia kee...
Wednesday, September 25, 2024

Hay Day Part I

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The day that I came home from the hospital, we got a call from our neighbor down the road that they were baling hay and asked if we could go...
Thursday, May 2, 2024

Kids Looking for a New Home

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Be fruitful and multiply.  God told Adam and Eve to do that.  They did.  After the flood, God told the same thing to Noah and his family.  T...
Tuesday, April 23, 2024

Copper for the Goats

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So we noticed that the goats' coats started getting wiry and dry and also they've had problems with foot rot.  When your copper leve...
Wednesday, February 21, 2024

Disbudding Our Baby Goats

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When one of our goats named Agnes was born, time got away from us and we didn't de-horn (disbud) her.  Never again!  We vowed never to m...