For those of you readers who eat our food or are interested in the happenings on the farm; meet the crew who will be on the farm growing the food and tending to the chickens and pigs for the 2011 production season. We will be working very hard this entire season seeding, transplanting, hoeing attempting […]
Category Archives: Goats
Harvey Our Guard Dog (click Picture for larger size) Harvey is our guard dog who is an Anatolian and Great Pyrenees mix. He spends his entire life living with goats and currently has 16 goats to care for. A typical day for Harvey begins with his breakfast early morning. While he is eating, we also […]
 We use a “burdizzo†to neuter our goats. PETA would probably not be happy with us for this type of castration! This method seems to work well for us as it crushes the spermatic cords and requires no tetanus shots, no possibility of infection, and it is a quick procedure lasting around 60 seconds […]
We chose to use electrical fencing to contain our goats and horses. The problem with electrical fencing is that it frequently needs maintenance; fixing wire that has stretched too much, cutting away trees and brush from the fence line, and cutting down the weeds underneath the wire so that it the electrical current is not shorted […]
Spiffy’s baby #1 after disbudding Spiffy’s baby #2 after disbudding Disbudding is where one uses a really hot electric “disbudding iron†to burn around the kid goat’s horn bud. We put the baby goat in a box so that we can hold its head still during this process. We first shave around the horn buds […]
Ginger’s Baby Girl Spiffy’s Boy #1 Spiffy’s Boy #2 Each year we reconsider whether we should be raising goats for milk. And then the babies are born, and they are ever so cute, so we keep doing this year after year. Just today, Ginger’s girl was trying to nurse on our guard dog, Harvey, and it was […]