Recently, we decided to start giving our new goats biblical names. This year we gave our goats names beginning with the letter “A”; next year we’ll do “B” and continue going on down the alphabet. Since Violet was the first of our goats to give birth this year, we named her silver baby boy Adam …
It seems like forever since I wrote my last post. I wished I liked writing – I’m sure I’d post more if I did! I do post regularly on Facebook; you can follow us at http://www.facebook.com/MountainHollowFarm. A lot has been happening here at Mountain Hollow Farm since my last post 7 months ago. We are still …
Molly & her baby girl All of our cashmere goats have had their kids. We had 14 kids from 8 does. Unfortunately 3 of the kids died. I think if we would have had prior experience at this, we could have prevented all 3 deaths. I spent a year intensively researching how to raise cashmere …
The Good After about a week of rain, the sun is finally shining! We had 8 goat kids in a week and all but one are still living. The little guy who was struggling seems to be pulling through. It’s fun to watch those kids playing. They jump around kind of like rabbits, hopping rather …
We’ve had 7 goat kids this week – 5 bucklings and 2 doelings. We were hoping to have more doelings than bucklings, but since 4 of our 8 does have kidded, it looks like that is not going to happen. One of the bucklings that was born yesterday died last night, and his brother is …
We are having an exciting day. Eleanor just gave birth to her first kid and I had the good fortune to watch the birth. I wish I’d have had a video camera… it was amazing! Since his mom is a Roosevelt, we decided to name our new buckling Teddy. We are expecting 10-14 goat kids …