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 I thought our plan for breeding the goats was all worked out – I’d monitored their heat cycles so we knew exactly when to take them back to Wild Wind Farm for breeding; and we were going to have goat kids by March 30th next spring (see Goat Kids – Preparing for Breeding). However, I [...] Continue reading Goat Breeding Plan – Hah!  Bit ‘O’ Honey, Jewel Box, and Tinker Bell are all past a year old now; and I’m determined to get some decent yearling photos of them before they grow their winter coats. Soon it will be time to take them for breeding, and I want to be sure we have some good shots before they start [...] Continue reading Yearling Doe Photos  The Nigerian Dwarf goats (Tinker Bell, Bit ‘O’ Honey, and Jewel Box) are old enough to breed, so the first “Kidding Schedule” page is now up on the Bramblestone Farm website (click on Kidding Schedule). I’m very excited to be planning their first kids, particularly since we’ll be breeding them to bucks owned by our friends at Wild Wind Farm [...] Continue reading Kidding Schedule  Jewel Box made “Picture – Of – The – Week” on Backyard Herds this week; doing her cutest goat on the catwalk look!
She’s the third Nigerian Dwarf doe we purchased for Bramblestone Farm; and is just a year old now. There’s more information about her (and her pedigree) at the Bramblestone Farm site [...] Continue reading Jewel Box is “Picture-Of-The-Week”  Springtime was cold and late in Northeast Ohio, so the goats didn’t get their coats trimmed until this week – their first trims as yearlings. After giving them their haircuts, we went to the American Goat Society (AGS) 2011 National Show (as spectators only). The show was a real learning experience; we saw many beautiful Nigerian Dwarf goats and met [...] Continue reading Bramblestone Goat Update  As we’ve built things on the farm (house, barn, patio, etc.), we’ve collected lots of big rocks and we thought a couple would make good toys for the goats – they love to play; and it will help keep their hooves trimmed. So, the first job for the new John Deere tractor was to move a couple of boulders [...] Continue reading Goat Toys  We brought home another Nigerian Dwarf goat; Wild Wind Farm R Jewel Box. She’s really shaggy in this picture, and she’s got her hair all puffed out because of the cold so it’s hard to tell – but she’s a beautiful doeling. She has great milking lines in her pedigree, and we watched her mother (Winjammer) win [...] Continue reading New Farm Addition!  On Monday before Thanksgiving, we took Honey to the vet to have a horn scur removed, making it the fourth time this particular horn bud had to be worked on. I was afraid the vet would choose to dig it out, but he chose to burn it again. Honey’s breeder performed the disbudding the previous three times, so I was curious to see [...] Continue reading Disbudding (Yet Again)  Continue reading Meeting the Goats  Tinkerbell and Bit-O-Honey have been here for just a month, and they already need trims. Hooves I bought the “shear magic” hoof trimmer on-line from Jeffers, and used it to trim the girls’ hooves. Using past horse experience, I tried to pick up each hoof and trim it while the goat stood on the other three legs; however, Tink and Honey clearly [...] Continue reading Hoof & Hair Trims  We’ve had two Dwarf Nigerian goats picked out for quite awhile, but couldn’t bring them home because we were waiting on the fencing guys. Today we finally picked them up. Here’s “Bit “O” Honey”, she’s already won 1st place at a show:
And also her cousin (mother’s are sisters) “Tinkerbell”, standing in front of Honey: The Goats Are Here |
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