Sometimes there are goats who just don’t show that they’re pregnant. One day they will act like they are bred, and the next day they are running around like crazy and you’re almost positive that they aren’t. If they only have one baby, they can stay really small, and you’re not sure if they’re pregnant or […]
Here at Goat Milk Stuff we have over 20 soap scents that we make year round. We also have dozens of “limited edition” scents that we release at least once a year. For April, we have a brand new scent! Introducing Spearmint Lime. We have combined spearmint and lime essential oil to give it a fresh minty, […]
My wife likes to stay active. Of course, as the CEO of a family business, as well as the family bookkeeper, she has a LOT of desk work to do. So I converted our treadmill into a treadmill desk using stuff we had laying around. In order to work, the treadmill desk needed to have […]
I was looking through our picture folders when I found these pictures of the goats in the woods, taken a year or so ago. They were happily trying to eat everything in sight. Except for the babies, who would rather climb onto the feed containers. By now, they’ve eaten most of the green stuff that […]
With all of the yogurt and cheesemaking we do around here, we have a LOT of extra whey. If you’re not sure what whey is, there are actually two types of whey. Acid Whey: When you make cheese that uses lemon juice, vinegar, or citric acid to curdle the milk, the leftover whey is acid […]
We put the feed out at night and encourage the goats to eat after the evening milking. That also helps encourage births during the daytime. Well, Zeyda didn’t seem to care about that. During kidding season, we take shifts overnight to make sure if any momma does go into labor, that we are there to assist […]
Ever since he was young, Emery has always enjoyed flowers. Throughout the years he has had different flower gardens. When we moved from Charlestown to Scottsburg, he transported many of the flowers, and started a new one! This Spring, he has started one next to the barn. Only the Daffodils have started blooming so far. This […]
We post a lot of photos of our baby goats on our website, blog, Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, and Instagram accounts. One of the questions we often get asked is, “What are those circles on their heads?” Those rings are where the goats have been disbudded. The follow-up question is then, “Why do you disbud the goats?” […]
We get asked all the time, “What do you do in your spare time?” And without fail, everyone’s answer to that question is, “I read”. We read outside, on the couch, (in any position we find comfortable,) while we’re walking around the house, in bed, and with our siblings. We’ve even got the cat reading […]
I’m not a big fan of chemicals. They have their place and are useful in certain applications. But in general, I think that as a society we rely too heavily on them. We work hard on the farm to avoid chemicals – especially if there is a healthier, more natural method available to us. One […]
We get asked lots of questions when we’re doing farm tours, selling soap at craft fairs, or simply running errands. Since most of those answers are heard only by the person who asked, we decided to share some of the common questions here on the blog. And of course you can ask a question of your own! Emery, how do […]
When our goats give birth, there are usually 5 or 6 people around to help with things like bringing towels, getting water, watching the other goats, and other odd jobs that need to be done when a goat is going into labor. With Bathsheba, there were about 12 people around. About 6 of these people […]
Here at Goat Milk Stuff, we go through lots of mailing boxes. Normally, when we run out of prepared boxes, we’ll get everyone together and have a big box taping party. But the other day, some of the kids decided to have a box making battle. They split into two teams to make forts, with each team trying […]
A few hours had passed since Pandora had given birth and we were finally catching up on everything that was delayed from the earlier birth and cleaning up the “due at any moment” stall that we have set up at this point in the season. Usually, Pemberly isn’t one of the friendliest or most outgoing […]
We have a special Easter soap this year! Our newest limited edition soap is a special Daffodil Soap that is now cured and ready just in time for Easter. This is a new soap we’ve never offered before, with a mild floral scent that smells of spring and of daffodil flowers. Orders placed by midnight on Tuesday 3/31/15 are […]