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Entries Tagged as 'goats'

Our Beautiful, Bouncing Boy

February 6th, 2015 · No Comments · 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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Can We All Just Get Along?

February 2nd, 2015 · No Comments · farming

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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Meet Sal

December 9th, 2014 · No Comments · farming

Other than having to dig out from the occasional nor’easter, life on Spy Dog Farm is usually pretty routine. Morning chores, afternoon chores–wash, rinse repeat. But every once in a while, we get to swing at a curve ball and things get more interesting. Yesterday morning would be a perfect sample. The phone rang and […]

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