Just some fun pictures of Brown Sugar’s now one-week old buckling. He has certainly found his legs. All done. I’m so cute, I can get away with anything. It’s a good thing a mother’s love is so strong and they are so lightweight at this age. Hope this put a smile on your face, Karen
And Then There Are Eight
From two babies to eight. Here is how it happened. Wednesday was a busy day for our family. We all had appointments and thus were gone from late morning until mid-afternoon. We knew we had four goats with expected due dates this week so we checked on them before we left home. We have been […]
A Tale of Two Bucks
It’s breeding season here on the Banks of Salt Creek. It has been just over two years since I experienced my first breeding. I’m practically an old pro now. I watch to make sure it happens. I bring the girls back multiple times a day or two. I guess you could say I’m quite the […]
Animals in the Morning
Every morning when we go out to open the barn we are greeted with the same routine. When I open the chicken coop, I’ve noticed the new rooster, a White Brahma we got from a friend, is always to last to rise and shine. He is always the last one on the roost. I understand, […]
Milk Theif
Halloween marked eight weeks since the two baby does had been separated from their moms. The night before Michael thought it was time to put them back together again. As you can see in the first picture, everyone was very curious about the two “new comers.” The babies immediately took high ground which allowed them […]
Motivation
Motivation is a good thing. Being former city folk, we are not used to being SO busy on the weekends. If we were busy it was usually going somewhere to do something fun as a family. On Thursday Michael put together his weekend to-do list. The boys and I sat in rapt attention. What were […]
Hello Again (part two)
Ok, so we left with Michael heading to NY for his annual meeting. One last thing we needed to do before he left was tattoo the two babies. The last time we tattooed baby goats we had our friend Raspberry do it. This time we thought we would do it on our […]
Hello Again (part one)
What a busy couple of weeks it has been. I was hoping for less stuff to do but that always seems to be on the horizon. I thought I would spend a couple posts updating you on what is going on here. Last update we had harvested the apples and made a bunch of cider. […]
An Observation
I’m not sure if I have talked enough about Halle and food. We have called her our resident foodie in other posts. If you spent time with her you would say that “resident foodie” doesn’t fully express her love of food. When the other goats will turn their noses up at something new, Halle is […]
Changes are Hard on More Than Humans
Randy and Storm left Friday afternoon and on Saturday we expanded the stall for the does. If you look at where Joshua is standing you will see a post behind him against the wall. A wall was there which made a smaller stall that we put the babies in at night so we could milk […]
Linear Appraisal of our Goats
On June 30th we took our goats to a neighboring farm to participate in a once a year program of the American Dairy Goat Association (ADGA) called “Linear Appraisal(L.A.).” I am not an expert on this program but I am striving to learn more. This post will explain what L.A. is and why we chose […]
Halle Berry (the Nigerian Dwarf Goat) ha...
The video has been trimmed, from 49 minutes down to 5:30, and is now ready for you to see. Halle brings new life to Salt Creek Acres! To see a higher quality version, wander over to You Tube where it is uploaded in higher definition: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC2Iy-35UO5D4Z00HgMj92Nw