Emery has become an amazing barn manager.  In this short video, he talks about how he cares for the goats between breeding and kidding seasons.   Because each goat is an individual, he has to watch them carefully to make sure that one goat isn’t “stealing” all the food and getting too fat, while another goat…

Many people think that breeding goats is super easy – let the buck live with the does and five months later you will have baby goats!   While that is the most important piece, actually managing breeding season when you have 32 does and 7 bucks (3 of which are young and you aren’t using),…

We bottle raise our babies because it keeps all the goats healthier and the babies friendlier. When they are first born, they get 4 bottles a day.  As they grow, the number of bottles decreases until they’re weaned. That’s a lot of bottles, so everybody pitches in, even Jade: It takes a little while for…

When we first got goats, we lived on three acres. There were a total of 3 pine trees on that entire property for the goats to eat because the property was an old hay field.  The goats had plenty of space, but the  property was not ideal for them because goats are browsers, not grazers.…