Entries Tagged as 'farming'
It’s probably just farming myth that you can tell when goats have had sex when you see them emerge from the goat shed smoking cigarettes. But we are always looking for signs of caprine love making because baby goats for us are, in the end, the payoff for all the work we do to keep […]
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Tags:breeding·goats
If anything could possibly be more tiresome than trudging through two feet of snow to feed the animals it might be having to fill buckets of water in the kitchen and trudge through those same two feet of snow to deliver water. But that’s exactly what we were forced to do last year when the […]
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Tags:hydrants·water·winter
I’d love to report that our six-year-old Nubian goat, Sal, is fitting right in since joining us a couple months ago. But it’s been a long adjustment since the morning our friend Ashley called to ask if we’d adopt Sal, who otherwise had a date with the butcher. Our Kiko goats, it turns out, just […]
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Tags:goats