This Goat's Life

hello this is hannahbelle. I am t6he motehr of goatzilla peanut and boxcaR BETTY. i have some suggestions for those of you entering teh cond...

When my daughter Hannah Belle was a young mother, let's face it, she wasn't very good at it. And she didn't like it much. It was...

In all the brouhaha about adorable little Peanut, who I admit is the cutest thing on four hooves, some people seem to have forgotten that I ...

Little Peanut has turned a corner. Literally. For his first few days, Peanut was only able to walk in a straight line. If he came to a wall,...

My grandson Peanut is doing well. He still does not have the hang of getting milk from his mother, but he knows how to suck from a bottle pr...

This is a picture of Peanut standing next to his big brother, Goatzilla. You can't really tell it from the photo, but Zilla is more than...

This is a picture of my grandson Peanut, just born. Peanut did very well his second night. He did not have any more seizures, and he drank s...

My daughter Hannah Belle, aka Hannah Belle Lecter, went to the kidding stall yesterday. She was as big as a house and let's just say tha...

I received many excellent suggestions for a name for Big Orange. Well, actually, I received many suggestions. Not that many excellent sugge...

Well, there was a ruckus this afternoon. I laughed when I saw it. The first fresheners in the down-below shack pasture are allowed to go out...

There have been some complaints that my blog has not had enough pictures and posts lately, as if I have nothing else to do. For those who ma...

Penrose, the farmer's favorite Toggenburg, comes from a long long line of Swiss philosophers. As you can probably tell from this photo, ...

One set of baby goats used the old farm truck as their baby stall this year. They were called the F-150s. In this picture, Sammy and Leo, tw...

...is that they are so unfriendly and standoffish. You cannot get them to pay any attention to you. It's too bad.

Our protector Atty is considered a very fearsome dog by people who do not know him. That is because he is about as big as a Volkswagen. Here...

Agnes, aka Aggie Baggy, did very well in her first kidding, except for the timing. The farmer has posted a schedule of acceptable kidding ti...

The long dark night of the mini-Nubians is about to begin. Aggie the mini-Nubian, Boo's unexpectedly normal daughter, is in the red zone...

I have been upgraded from the shed to the big barn as befits a goat of my stature. This is because I have the sweetest milk and I am now the...

Tux, Top Hat, and Turkish Delight, Mel's trouble-seeking triplets ( aka the three little priests), are almost but not quite too fat to ...

It happens every year and this year it is the sad case of Betsy's big orange daughter. I don't particularly care for a big orange go...