Our baby goats are doing well, and we wanted to give you an update on how they are doing. The tiniest baby goat, Grumpy, is still mostly housebound, but he is doing well. https://youtu.be/nfhREKxr8Ic
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More Baby Goats
Two days in a row we woke up to new baby goats. Unfortunately, not all the goats born this morning survived. Because we were not out there and we don’t have cameras out there, we don’t know if they were stillborn if something happened after. But we are still going to celebrate the one whoContinueContinue reading “More Baby Goats”
Baby Goat: Year Two
We had a bit of excitement this morning. One of our goats had the first baby of the year. https://youtu.be/PpsvHtd5uuM
THE GOATS ARE GONE
The goats are going a bit of an extended field trip. One of our neighboring farms has an Agra-tainment business, and they asked to borrow some of our goats for their Fall season. https://youtu.be/hcA1N3dp5dE If you are local and want to go visit our goats you can see them at STOKOE Farms
The Goats get a new field.
The goats have outgrown their current enclosure so we need to put up a new one. The plan had always been to give them most of our back area, and we finally got around to putting up the fence to do that. https://youtu.be/sh3SDybTxj8
New Farm Animal Adventures.
My previous boss used to say, “every day is an adventure.” My reply was often something like, “Yes, but some days I wish were a little less adventuresome.”
Baby trying to escape from the mom (out the side)
One of the baby goats was really excited to get out.
The Hazards of Backyard Hens
This DIY video lead to other DIY projects, Solar heaters and alternate heating systems and then eventually to this one entitled Off-grid, handcrafted life on Oregon farm & workshop.
Where our Food Comes From
WARNING – This post contains some graphic content about livestock, if you are squeamish about that sort of thing please consider skipping this post. You have been warned.
I Herd That
We are both using the farming metaphor to describe life, and well that just lends itself to some pretty humorous things. Not the least of which is the idea of two “old men” arguing about which kind of farming is a better metaphor for life.
The Great Hites 