Category: goat care
Our 2011 babies have started arriving
This little lady arrived this morning around 9:30. Being born in the daytime is soooo much easier on the care giving humans. Thank you for this one. We name our babies after country western singers. I'm open for suggestions. Her mama's name is Pearl. She was the last baby born AND the only girl born …
More Gardening with Goats
Research has taught me which foods are cancer-friendly so the family will be eating those foods more frequently. We're a busy family so everyone needs to eat the same thing as everyone else. Or else fix it yourself. 🙂 I"ll also be using Dr. Andrew Weil's cookbook The Healthy Kitchen. His philosophy fits within my …
Goats Trimming Willow Tree
This willow tree was planted long before the fences were built. Naturally, it's in the wrong place but we really don't want to cut it down. Unfortunately, it gets too willowy for us to use the gate so we need to trim it often. This year I decided to let our goats do the work …
Goat Milk Bath and Beauty’s photostream
Goat Milk Bath and Beauty's photostream on Flickr. Goats are terrific gardeners
Getting back into the swing of things
I moved a few goats around yesterday. Two particular doelings are too thin so I put them in the back barn so I can watch them more closely. Besides (our horse), there are fewer goats back there so they'll not be pushed back from the hay stack. The two transferees, Natalie and Ginger, haven't met …
Migrating Sleeping Dog Ranch Nubian website to this blog
As with my Gran' Nanny's Goat Milk Soaps website, I'm migrating my goat information to this blog. It's easier, faster, and offers affordable stats. All I have to do is work within their design constraints and that appears to be relatively easy. Easy is good because that means FAST, too. I'm working on managing my …
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What a snow season that was
What a snow season that was: I say WAS because we're hoping that the snow is all gone for the season. Those of us who made it through the season are stronger and our hearts are with the goats that didn't make it. Each passing has been logged in our chronicle of lessons learned. I …
With all this winter weather, I’ve had …
With all this winter weather, I've had to spend more time caring for the goats than usual. Yup, I'm behind on everything. Again, like everyone else across the country. Stay warm, everyone
More snow! Mother Nature WHAT are you thinking
Is this snow/freezing weather gonna kill pasture bugs? If yes, then OK, I'll 'happily' deal with it. BUT if not, then I'm not gonna be happy. I know you don't care, and you're gonna do what you want anyway. But I'd like to think there's a good reason for this snow/freezing weather. We have put …
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