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Goat Toys

Playing on the Rocks

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 into the pasture as goat toys.  Just getting the first boulder onto the tractor took three strong guys and pry bars (fortunately family was visiting and willing to help).  

 

Once the boulders were loaded, the tractor made moving them a piece of cake - the front fork attachment worked [...]

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It's A Farm!

Bramblestone LLC

Our 10 acres is officially Bramblestone Farm!  The paperwork from the Ohio Secretary of State arrived yesterday confirming Bramblestone Farm as a “for-profit” LLC.  I also reserved the domain name bramblestonefarm.com on the Internet and a herd name of Bramblestone has been registered with both the American Goat Society and the American Dairy Goat Association. 

It’s been an interesting journey since acquiring this land – we’ve built a house and barn, acquired a tractor and chicken coop, created a garden and pasture, installed fencing, and started raising chickens and goats.  Every step of the way, we’ve complained about how many big [...]

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