PJ Jonas

Category: Goats

  • Our Favorite Time of the Year

    Our Favorite Time of the Year

    We really enjoy the holidays, but to us, the “most wonderful time of the year” is kidding season!  Especially on nice sunny  days when we can run around and play with the kids outside. So far we have 9 kids out of 4 does with 14 does left to kid.  We’re going to be really outnumbered!…

  • ZuZu’s Delivery

    ZuZu’s Delivery

    This year we filmed ZuZu’s labor and delivery and edited the video for you to watch. Fletcher did a wonderful job doing the filming, but the camera isn’t always steady. Pretty amazing, huh? Have YOU ever seen an animal born?    

  • Why We Bottle Feed

    Why We Bottle Feed

    There are many different ways to raise goats.  When we first had goats we let them dam raise. It’s a lot less work to do it that way, but you’ve got to be careful that all the babies are getting enough nutrition, which isn’t easy if there are triplets. Then we did some research on…

  • Goat Family

    Goat Family

    When the baby goats are born, we separate and bottle raise them because for us it produces the healthiest and friendliest goats. But once the babies are big enough, all the female goats live together. Here is a photo of Victoria, Veanna, and Valley. Victoria (in the back) is the “Grandma”, Veanna (on the left)…

  • Rapid Deforestation

    Rapid Deforestation

    Being a frugal family of ten, we try to never waste anything useful.  So when it was time to dispose of our Christmas tree, we found a way to put it to good use! It was a feeding frenzy! LOL

  • Goat Care

    Goat Care

    I was headed out to the soap room today, but when I spotted Jade, I had to run back inside and grab my camera. Apparently she was concerned about the goats being thirsty. They have an automatic waterer, but we keep this bucket for when it is extra hot.  Jade filled it up with fresh,…

  • While The Humans…

    While The Humans…

    sit in front of the air conditioners when it’s 90+ degrees outside, what do our goats do to beat the heat? Right now, they seem to like the tree line on the side of the property where they can get some shade and tree branches. Except when they prefer eating alfalfa pellets in the shelter  …

  • Avoiding Disease

    Avoiding Disease

    I always tell people new to goats to spend the time and money it takes to ensure that they purchase CAE free goats.   Unfortunately, they often get caught up in the excitement of getting goats and tend to settle for the first goat(s) they can find. I’m going to share our story of CAE.…

  • Prevention is Key

    Prevention is Key

    When it comes to raising kids (both human and goat), the key to success (and sleeping well) is preventing the bad things from happening, not trying to fix them once they have occurred. With human children, teaching them is much easier when they’re four than when they’re fourteen.  For example, It’s super difficult to teach…

  • Let’s Run!

    Let’s Run!

    We love baby goats at our house. Well, that is probably an understatement. We LOVE our baby goats! We also like to blog about them! We like to blog about them in the winter, (when we can’t wait to have them) we like to blog about them when they are born (because they are so…

  • What is the Best Goat to Get?

    What is the Best Goat to Get?

    When we first got dairy goats, I read everything I could find before purchasing my first goats. Unfortunately, all the stuff that I read did not prepare me very well for finding and raising dairy goats. I was not very patient and found the first goats that I could. I quickly added many others. We…

  • Where’s the Milk?

    Where’s the Milk?

    For several years, we’ve had plenty of milk to make our soap and feed our kids (both human and goat). This year, however, we find ourselves chronically short on milk.  Baby goats can drink a lot of milk. Right now, we’re bottle feeding 12 goat kids aged 1-6 weeks. Combined, they’re drinking over 6 gallons…

  • Efficient Solar Energy Conversion

    Efficient Solar Energy Conversion

    I’ve always been amazed at the way God can take some seed, rain, and sunshine, then multiply it and turn it into food for many.  We can help this process along by being good stewards of our gardens, but every year, I have food that is produced that I didn’t plant or take care of.  We…

  • Having Fun In The Sun

    Having Fun In The Sun

    Yesterday was the sunniest day I have seen in a LONG time! It was also a pretty warm day. So the girls played outside with the baby goats almost all day! They were getting a lot of vitamin D, exercise, and fun. When I came out to take some pictures of the new baby goats,…

  • I Called It!

    I Called It!

    This morning as I was walking in from feeding the babies, I looked at the goats in the stall. Dayton was in there, with her tail up in the air (they don’t usually keep their tails up).  As I was cleaning out the lambar (a bucket with nipples that we use to feed the babies),…