When we bought our boy goat–Tigger–two years ago as a spirited yearling, the breeder warned us, “Do not expect to make a pet out of him.” Tigger lived up to his wild child billing by promptly bolting from the property not five minutes after we got him home and disappearing for a month. We were […]
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It’s not true that goats will eat anything but they will eat trees and that can be a good thing or a bad thing. Goats especially love to strip the bark off young trees. That’s why we keep them out of the orchard at all costs. If they succeed in eating the bark all the […]
It’s around this time of year–beginning of July–that we separate the male animals from the females. All of the pregnancies on Spy Dog Farm are planned–meaning we do our best to avoid accidents and time our births for spring, sometime in April. That entails a bit of fancy footwork, inasmuch as we have to find […]
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