Stories, lessons, and updates from our small farm adventures in shepherding.
New Additions to the Farm
This spring has been a VERY busy one! With the current pandemic at play and baby animals joining our farm, we have had our hands full.
A Summer of Growth
Between June and July 2019 we kidded all of our adult does successfully. Calahan did a great job for us considering this was a year we wanted to retain five doelings. Calahan threw six doelings and two bucklings. Whoohoo! We also added three ABGA registered doelings and a full blood buck with a winning pedigree. […]
2025 Dorper Lambs Have Arrived!
2025 Dorper Lambs have arrived on the farm.
Lambing time is here!
2024 will be an exciting year for our flock of Dorper Sheep. We are SO excited to welcome a new group of lambs this spring! Our farm had a very impressive dorper ram visit last fall to breed our ewe flock. He will compliment our ewes well while maintaining good conformation, production, and mothering abilities. […]
New Life On The Farm: Puppies and Lambs!
In winter? are we crazy?! We have some exciting news here on the farm! After putting our heart and soul into finding a perfect match for Jess, we have PUPPIES! Jess had a litter of three gorgeous ABCA border collies pups (2 girls and 1 male) on November 13th. We already knew Jess was a […]
Fall: Time for Breeding and Training
Time for breeding sheep: Now that school has started, it is time to put the ram in for spring lambs and get ready to welcome fall lambs. This is our first year having fall lambs and we are SO excited! One of the many positives of dorper sheep is that they have the potential to […]
Get READY! Local Pastured Poultry & Lamb Shares
We strive to feed our family the BEST food and we would love to share that with other local families. I have some VERY exciting news to share with you! In 2021, our farm will be able to provide our community with locally and sustainably raised pastured poultry and lamb. Our family is still considering […]
Time for Farm Fall Planning: turkeys, stacking hay, and breeding season!
Now that all of the goat kids have gone to their new herds, the chickens are in our freezer, and the turkeys are getting fat…. we are feeling like empty nesters! Woohoo! Farm planning for the fall! Now is the time that we begin to clean up after our busy season and plan for winter. […]
Update: From The Farm
This spring and summer was BUSY! Not only did we have a successful kidding season with every doe giving birth to twins, but we also are busily improving our farm. We ended up retaining five doeling kids to grow out as replacements. They are already showing great growth rates, easy handling, and superior structure. On […]
Awaiting More Goat Kids!
Watching and waiting is the worst part! Because we know how exciting baby goats can be. All year we plan out what buck will be breeding our does and when is a good time for them to kid. Since this will be our first time kidding this group of goats, we chose for our does […]