With all this talk about sheep breeding groups, I have left our poor LaMancha dairy goats out of the equation. Even though we have very flexible fencing and paddock areas, I have been scratching my head over how to get the goats together as a group with a buck, and just let them get down [...]
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Speaking of goats…
Posted in Farm, Farming, LaMancha Goats, goats, tagged breeding, Elvis, goat behavior, goats on November 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Long Week Over
Posted in Farming, Food, LaMancha Goats, Lambs, Sheep, tagged butcher, Kyra's Boy on October 31, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
It’s been a long week. A tough week. Still not feeling on top of the lingering chest cold and then of course everything changes so quickly when it’s breeding and butcher season. Kyra’s Boy’s departure left a big gap as he was always our meeter and greeter at the house, and then to top it [...]
Finally! All Kids have joined the party :*)
Posted in Farming, LaMancha Goats, goats, tagged kidding on July 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I think that I can finally get to bed at my usual earlier hour again! Yesterday morning I got out to chores a little on the later side (as I am totally dragging, having to stay up until 11 or 11:30 to check on our expectant mom) and couldn’t see Snow Pea’s face through [...]
Crazy Week
Posted in Farm, LaMancha Goats, tagged goats, kidding, LaMancha Goats on June 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The schoolyear for us officially ended yesterday! Oh my, I am tired. It’s been a busy week so far, even without adding school into the mix. Our yearling doe Rhubarb surprised us a little early with two beautiful bucklings late on Sunday afternoon. Of course, Sunday afternoon it was raining buckets, but our Rhubarb [...]
More Playtime @ the Rock!
Posted in Farm, LaMancha Goats, Weather, tagged goats on April 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
We are having a marvelous stretch of weather. I can’t believe how pleasant it is to be going without the longjohns on, at least for the afternoon chore time! We are spending as much time outdoors soaking up the sun as we can. And the goat kids and lambs continue to put on a great [...]
No Horns Allowed!
Posted in Farm, LaMancha Goats, tagged goats on March 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
It couldn’t have been a better day! Well, maybe it could have been a few degrees warmer, but the sap is flowing and the sun is shining, and the goat kids are having a blast, and the pregnant ewes are starting to complain a lot! If they can’t be eating, they are complaining [...]
Busy Days
Posted in Farm, LaMancha Goats, tagged goats, Milking on March 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
What a week it’s been so far! Things are hopping here at the farm. Monday we began our ritual of letting the mama goats out into the paddock while their babies have some unsupervised playtime late in the day. They are a hoot, hopping and dancing all around. Salsa and Sock Monkey have [...]
Sunday and Sun!
Posted in LaMancha Goats, Pemaquid Peninsula, Weather, tagged goats, lighthouse, Maine on March 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
My goodness! We are having a sunny day again today! Wow. No Monday morning snow storm. Amazing. Maybe spring really is just around the corner.
We had a lovely day yesterday and were outside until dark, enjoying the warm temperatures and trying to get caught up with extra tasks that might [...]
Goat Jockeying
Posted in Farm, LaMancha Goats, tagged goats, kidding on March 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Four nights in a row. Wow! Real sleep, 7 hours last night, 9 each of the nights before that. Our babies are all doing well. Saturday morning we opened the three jugs (pens) up to each other in the main greenhouse so that the three goatie moms could mingle with their [...]
Obama and Biden on the Farm?
Posted in LaMancha Goats, tagged kidding on March 14, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Now that would be a miracle of a different kind for us! Instead we just had 4 goat kid miracles this week. We have never had a black-patterned goat on the farm, but now have 2! We are very excited to think that our new buck Elvis has brought us this wonderful diversity [...]
