This Goat's Life

Video: The Betty Family enjoys a stroll around the barnyard. Well for some dratted reason this video doesn't work now. Here is the Br...

Yes It's Me

Midget at the Milk Bar Cubby waits his turn

Well it is a known fact that you can't sit around reading Emily Dickinson poems all day long no matter how gloomy you feel because the...

It was a hard, hard, hard day here yesterday, pretty close to the hardest day ever. So there is no easy way to tell it. Hannah Belle was ...

Still no sign. Waiting and holding. Everyone is worn thin (not Bumbles, obviously) with waiting and worry. The only good sign is Hannah Bell...

The sage continues with Hannah Belle a little bit up and then a little bit down. The vet has her on lactated ringer's now and she has be...

It is not Leap Day any more thank Goodness and Hannah Belle is feeling a little bit better and she has nibbled a little bit of grass and som...

Today is Leap Day and it feels like an ominous day. Right now it is raining and snowing and the wind from the west is whipping the fir tr...

The farmer is going to go ahead and start the kidding countdown because it is guesstimated that Betty and Hannah Belle will both kid on Satu...

We are getting pretty close to kidding time and since it is so devilishly muddy it has been decided that Hannah Belle and Boxcar Betty will ...

If you have a farm it is good to have a farm motto. This is our motto, we have it framed. It is a good motto to remember at this time of ye...

There have been a lot of stories lately about how goats develop accents . Woop, big news flash, I could have told you that two years ago whe...

The die is cast. Yesterday Pebbles was bred to the devilishly handsome Tiny Giant, a milk-loving Mama's Boy. Here is his baby picture. ...

Today is Valentine's Day and fyi I am still accepting small gifts of candy and pretzels and swedish fish and gingersnaps and so on. I ha...

Yesterday Mr. Jingles was rushed to the hospital. If you don't know, Mr. Jingles is the pen name of Wendell the pest, the boston terri...

I do not like to put too fine a point on it, but last night as they all do every year according to some secret schedule only they know, the ...

I decided to start a column for first fresheners because it is almost springtime and the kidding season is upon us and I have a lot of exper...

Someone sent the Facebook link.  Here it is. Someone else friended us. So now we have one friend. That is really all you need, if it i...

The farmer is planning what to make later this spring when everyone starts kidding and the milk is back in. There are going to be a lot of c...