This Goat's Life

Baby Belle died this afternoon. Thanks to everyone who read her blog and to everyone who wrote publicly and privately sending her good wishe...

Betsy is still Betsy. Some goats grow up and when they get big they get a new personality. Lucy for example was a fun-loving tot in her yout...

IS HERE!

Well, the farm newsletter has been done for a while but we are having some problems getting the mailing list to send out properly. So anyway...

Well, the farmer had to go and pick up hay in the field, and Betsy used the opportunity to kid. She had a gigantic single buck kid (again) i...

Xie Xie was not able to fool the farmer. She delivered a set of twins in plain sight. They are both mini-Manchas, and both blue-eyed. As far...

The Betsy family excels in stealth kidding, as you know. Apparently this is done partly by ESP. Betsy and her daughter Big Orange were in th...

Well the Farmer went around and around and around and the final two name contenders for Pinky are Zedoary - which is a kind of ginger - and ...

It isn't summer but it feels like summer. One crazy guy down the road is already cutting hay. We are counting the days waiting for the p...

Here they are.

Well Hannah Belle underdid herself this time, producing only two kids, both of whom are luckily extremely gorgeous. Since they are fine flas...

The farmer has finally had it with Hannah Belle. Hannah Belle is being moved to the kidding stall, like it or not. And she better like it. T...

Since March it has been believed that my daughter Hannah Belle might kid at any moment. She looks like one of those trucks going down the hi...

Well, the farmer’s precious pet Winnie got very sick. She had milk fever and went down like a stone. She couldn’t walk, because she couldn’t...

There are two more of them now. LaMancha bottle baby monsters. Jessie's kids. They don't have names either, Z is a very hard year, a...

It was Earth Day this week which gave us a good excuse to celebrate the force that through the green fuse drives the flower. Go flowers! But...

It is important to keep track of the most beautiful days of the year, so you can remember them later. Yesterday was one of the top ten most ...

Little Baby Z looked very bad yesterday morning. She had three shots of medicine: one for tetanus prevention, one to stop other kinds of inf...

The little doeling Pinky had a freak accident yesterday and we are very worried about her. She got a bad gash and lost a lot of blood. The f...