Jewel kidded this morning, giving us an adorable triplet litter of all boys & she loves them to pieces! We spent the morning with Mama and babies making sure everyone got their turn to suck some energizing and essential colostrum. After filling their bellies, they settled down for a typical newborn nap and were out… Continue reading First kidding of 2026
Category: Farm Updates
Spring 2026
Milk test? I renewed my DHIA Certification with WA DHIA for 2026, though I’m still undecided whether we’ll be doing any testing this year…we’ll see. Trying to keep costs down, especially costs without much return on the investment, but I do like having the milk test information. ADGA’s e-mail in late Dec 2025 was encouraging.… Continue reading Spring 2026
Winter 2025
I’m excited to announce that we will hopefully have a few baby goats hitting the ground in May 2026. If breeding takes, Jewel and Dusty will freshen as two year olds next year, and we can’t wait! I need to get some current photos of everyone. All we have are baby photos still, and they’re… Continue reading Winter 2025
LATE SUMMER 2025
This month we did a much needed herd reduction and sold ALL the adult goats, including the bucks, keeping only 4 promising young dry does that we’ve bred from our best. We try to keep a small, manageable herd to avoid overwhelm, and this year we just needed to let go of some goats to… Continue reading LATE SUMMER 2025
We’re done kidding 2025
FLAPPER Flapper kidded the first day of spring 3/20/25 delivering very healthy triplets! We’re delighted that she gave us two beautiful females and a very handsome little buck who we suspect is polled(TBD). One female will be retained. Photos coming soon! While I don’t have any buck reservations or request as of yet, any requests… Continue reading We’re done kidding 2025
Kidding Update
Misty kidded 3/17/25 with triplets! 2 males & 1 female; both males have been reserved and the female will be retained. Stay tuned for more updates as we wait for Flapper and Nellie to kid soon. If you’re on the waiting list or have a reservation request, you will be contacted in order and offered… Continue reading Kidding Update
Fall 2024
Krebs PD Patty Pan (3*M 3*D AR Pending) Elite, photo courtesy of Krebs Dairy Goats Krebs Farm recently announced that our previous herdsire’s maternal sister made the ADGA Elite list this year. What does elite mean? According to her CDCB data she milked 5.9 lbs at 30 days in milk and 4.1 lbs at 58… Continue reading Fall 2024
Summer 2024
BREEDING PLANS! We have posted our tentative breeding schedule for 2025 kiddings! Take a look. 👀 If all goes as planned, we’ll start breeding around October 15th & freshen 4 does next year; one of them will be a first freshener training to the milking routine. We’ll primarily be using our new young polled buck… Continue reading Summer 2024
Last kidding & News
Sunny kidded as a first freshener May 18th with twin bucks. They are available for reservation as pet wethers after weaning around the end of July. Sold a bred doe We hadn’t planned on it, but we had an inquiry about available bred does, so we decided to sell Stormy to a 4-H family. We’re… Continue reading Last kidding & News
Triplets & New herd sire
Cloudy delivered triplets today! This is her second freshening and we bred her to the same buck as last year (Krebs LG Buckskin) that produced triplets as well, all does. This year, she gave us all bucklings, which works for me, because they should make some amazing pet wethers since Cloudy is just the sweetest… Continue reading Triplets & New herd sire
