Walking the herd back to pasture for the first time. About a week ago we decided to combine the baby goat herd with the big goat herd. For the past 16 weeks the babies were managed separately as we slowly weaned them off milk and transitioned them to a grassfed...
Goat babies and their portable taco truck shelter Y'all are due for an update on the baby goats. It's been a while!
When we first moved to the farm we wanted to gain experience in lots of different farming endeavors and ultimately choose the ones that worked best for us and our land. We knew from the beginning that raising goats on our land would work. It was obvious just by looking...
What we stand for: Raising and serving our community healthy, nutrient-dense food Providing our animals with a natural and humane environment Using nature to guide our animal husbandry practices Seeking methods that limit the use of outside inputs Adopting practices that utilize the full cycle of nature and minimize waste
The final two As of this afternoon we are officially past our first goat kidding season. Mayday, one of our original does, gave birth to a beautiful little doeling and quite possibly the cutest buckling we've ever seen. Our grand total comes to 10 kids with 7 doelings and 3...
Milk lips. Ready for a napCalima and Chinook, born to Zephyr (names of winds) We're in the midst of our own version of March Madness. Goat Birthing Madness! Finally, a week after we posted about Sandia, our first goat born on the farm, we're getting a little breather and have...
Sandia, Little Seed's first official goat baby :) On Tuesday we had our first goat birth on the farm! She was born to one of our Nubian first fresheners, Tijeras. (A first freshener is a goat that has not previously kidded). We weren't expecting her arrival until today so you...
It is almost time! Ever since we bred the goats this past October, I've been counting down to their due dates. The anticipation has increased many fold since drying them off early in January. For the past few months our schedule has been wildly different than our previous days on...
