Floating away in a river of milk

We’re floating in milk!  We now have 3 dairy goats we’re milking – Tam was a pain to start with but is now our best milker!  Handles good – tame – easy to milk… the best!  Princes Leia is a Lamancha (the goat with no ears) and she’s small and...

Unbeknown to me there was a surprise in the milk tonight.

I finished milking tonight and Laurie filtered it while I went about the rest of the chores. As she looks in the milk pail there is something colored – maybe a little bit of dirt… ‘It will get filtered out” she thinks to herself… then...

PS, you don’t know your own strength

Monday morning when Clara and I were feeding the cows (this sounds strangely familiar) I was almost gored by PS. He was hungry, and is quite playful, but 1 ton of muscle rearing up his head (which happens to have a nice pointy horn on it) and catching you right above...

A fencing victory

Saturday some of our good great awesome best friends came up to our place to help us with some fencing.  We’ve been struggling with the fence since we moved to our farm eight months ago – then we were putting in some hotwire as we were moving all of our animals –...