Welcome Baby Goats!

in Animal Husbandry,Baby Farm animals,Baby goats,Dairy Goats,For Sale,Goat Care,Goat kids,Goats,Livestock,Mini-Nubians

603631_10151608263896489_937299409_nA spring has arrived and along with it came two new goat kids, one buckling and one doeling. These sweet babies are so precious!

I love baby goats!

Their mama, Lillen, is a good mother who births easily and has strong maternal instincts. She cleans here kids off and immediately lifts her leg so they can ge on her udder. She is very gentle and talks to them in such a sweet voice that is melts my heart to hear her.

We dam raise our goat kids so they get the best start possible. They are raised without chemical intervention but instead are fed a healthy diet which includes immune boosting and preventative herbs such as comfrey, nettle, garlic, grated  carrot, pumpkin seed and kelp. They also get to browse one fresh greens.

The sire is a gentle buck who wouldn’t hurt a fly. He is beautiful as well as reliable to get his job done. He is a small buck. We purposely bred to a small buck so we would have smaller kids.

Mini-Nubians are great as urban goats. They are smaller than regular Nubians, good milkers and they are friendly. They really love people. Even better, my herd is quiet. I have bred in to this line because of how easy they are to live with. They are so quiet that I built their stable not more than 20 feet form my bedroom window.

We will have Mini-Nubians for sale in a three months, after they are weaned.

Deposits are neccessary to hold them for you.

 

 

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in Apprentices,Chicks,Community,Compost,Cooperative Community,Goat Care,Goats,Hens,homesteading,Interns,Livestock,Rabbits,Tiny House,Turkeys,WWOOF

IMG_5945Life is busy and things are hopping on the farm. It’s Mid May and the weather has been gorgeous. A lot has happened very quickly.

After we moved the tiny house and completed the remodel of it, we had two interns move in. Jonah and Iliana are from New York and have been on the road for a while.
We have built a new patio to replace the one that was sloping down hill and was completely unlevel. The new patio is twice as large, completely level and really nice.
We have cauliflower, brocolli, onion, lettuce, peas, pole beans, bush beans, red runner beans, drying beans, tomatoes, jalepeno and cayenne peppers, celery, cukes, carrots, beets, chard, spinach, patty pan squash, pumpkin, zuchini, potatoes and of coarse all of the normal perennial vegetables in the garden.
Our next step will be to clean out the deep bedding in the goat, turkey and chicken yards. It may not be glamorous but it is great having lots of homemade compost!
Over the next week or so we will finish the outdoor kitchen and put up the canopies in Internlandia. We have interns coming at the end of the month so we are getting ready.
It’s going to be a great summer!

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