PJ Jonas

Tag: Goats

  • Gallons and Gallons of Milk

    Gallons and Gallons of Milk

    Every year we have lots of new baby goats born. Lots of baby goats drink lots of milk. As baby goats get bigger, they drink more, which makes them get bigger, which makes them drink more. It’s a never-ending cycle!  At least it’s a never-ending cycle until the babies are weaned. When the boys finish milking the goats, we send…

  • Meet The Goats – Ivy

    Meet The Goats – Ivy

    Our dairy goats are not only foundational to Goat Milk Stuff, but they are a big part of our family as well. Each of them has a personality and during this series we’re hoping you’ll get to know more about them. Ivy is one of our biggest and strongest goats.  She is Colter’s favorite goat, and is very…

  • Meet The Goats – Valley

    Meet The Goats – Valley

    Our dairy goats are not only foundational to Goat Milk Stuff, but they are a big part of our family as well.  Each of them has a personality and during this series we’re hoping you’ll get to know more about them. Valley is one of Indigo’s birthday goats. The day she was born, we were at China Garden Buffet…

  • How to Tease a Baby Goat

    How to Tease a Baby Goat

    During the goat photoshoot, Jason (our barn cat) came over to visit the humans, and got a whole bunch of baby goats instead. The babies love Jason. Actually, they love his tail. The babies love trying to eat his tail, and he loves teasing them by waving it around where they can’t reach it. It…

  • Behind the Scenes of the Goat Photoshoot

    Behind the Scenes of the Goat Photoshoot

    Every year or so, we try to take “official” goat photos for the website. With the craziness of the move and construction, we haven’t had much of a chance to take goat photos. Our last goat photoshoot was over two years ago, and we didn’t even have official photos of some of the babies. I’ve been…

  • Taking Care of Ivy

    Taking Care of Ivy

    Tuesday morning, Colter milked Ivy, and everything was fine.  When he milked her in the evening, things were clearly not fine.  Ivy did not want to get on the milk stand (the goats always do).  She would not eat (the goats always eat). And she only gave 2 pounds of milk instead of her usual 6-7 pounds.  When…

  • The Goat Barn

    The Goat Barn

    When we moved to the new farm, I was able to build my dream barn.  I thought I’d share some of the features we built into the barn to make our lives easier.   The exterior of the barn is all metal and away from the trees so it shouldn’t be damaged by falling limbs. There…

  • Zea and Zany

    Zea and Zany

    Mom, Brett and I had just gotten back from Walmart when I saw that there were 2 chickens out of the pen. Since I had to take some stuff into the barn anyway, Mom dropped me off, and she headed back to the house. I decided to take the stuff inside first, before catching the…

  • Patriot

    Patriot

    We have been wanting to get a great video of a baby goat being born. Tuesday morning it became obvious that Persephone was in labor, but our videographer wasn’t due to arrive for another hour.  We called him and told him to hurry and then we all started to pray that the birth would go…

  • Happy and Hera

    Happy and Hera

    Monday morning was yet another hectic day in the barn.  Greyden was finishing up feeding the babies when he looked in at the pregnant does and saw Hummingbird licking off a kid!  The alarm was sounded and everyone showed up to help take care of the babies and the mama.  All of the children started…

  • Yahoo and Yesterday

    Yahoo and Yesterday

    Saturdays at Goat Milk Stuff mean farm tours, and farm tours during kidding season are a lot like March Madness; you never really know what’s going to happen!  Hewitt was giving a tour on Saturday and while his group was in the barn meeting the baby goats, he looked into the pen where the pregnant goats…

  • Lampy

    Friday, after three days of no action in the barn, a friend who had been staying with us in the hopes of seeing a goat birth had to leave.  We had just watched the family pull out of the driveway, when we found Zenith with a bubble.  We called our friends and told them to…

  • Tapioca and Tempest

    Tapioca and Tempest

    We were cleaning up dinner and Colter went to the barn to check on the goats.  My phone rang and soon the yell of, “Babies!” echoed through the house.  Everyone dropped what they were doing and ran (not that they were upset about not being able to finish cleaning up) to the barn.  We had…

  • Java and Jericho

    Java and Jericho

    Thursday night, Fashion disappointed me by giving me twin bucklings.  She is our goat with the highest butterfat content, and I really wanted to keep a doeling out of her.    Imagine my joy when her daughter, Fantasmic, gave us twin doelings Friday morning!  Tazzy’s butterfat isn’t quite as high as Fashion’s, but it’s still…

  • Factor and Ferocious

    Factor and Ferocious

    Kidding time is a lot of work and not a lot of sleep.  As y’all know, for the entire time (~6 weeks) we take shifts in the barn all night long so we are present if any of the goats need us.  I put together a nice dinner last Thursday to give everyone something special…