Animal Memories: Sorellina 2008-2017

They were 1 year old in this picture... Sorellina & Further... our first goats.  their offspring and others grew our goat herd to over 20 today.  She could not stand up...in the end...age caught up with her...as it does all of us.  here is a look back.

......Butler had a lot to do with growing the herd...our Buck!

Further with her first set of twins...goats give birth in sets...generally!

I m glad to give animals a lovely life on the farm with us... the forever farm!

Look who's coming to Dinner

ARTEMESIA born April 1 2017 to Clover

Boys in a Rut

GOAT PEN

these corral panels were added to create a place in the winter where the goats could be fed hay without creating a mess inside the barn.  goats are famously wasteful.  below they are on pasture.  the ideal place for them!

these are all the girls...15 of them..the does born here are named after Greek/Roman Goddesses

Sorrelina

Clover

Aeos

Pearl

Hera

Hygenia/Undie

Venus

Thea

Jaia

Diana

Gaia

Maia

Aphodite

Athena

Khaos

the rabbits come at night after the girls are back in the barn, to pick at all the hay they left behind.

Morning Pasture

Family of Goats

This is Hygenia "Undie", and Venus - years later and still a family - mother and daughter - sleeping cozy together.

Out to Pasture

We have a new pasture for the goats near the horses,  they plow through pasture so each year we fence a new one -

Pastures are managed better when you can keep animals off of it for a time to allow grazed pasture to replenish itself

in this photo, the goats are on the horse pasture.  Goats are excellent and clearing brush and other plants that horses do not eat.

However, buttercup - the yellow flower - needs to be brush hog because neither animal eats it.
we brush hog in sections so the horses still have uncut sections to graze.  This pasture here is 10 acres. Quite a lot for 6 horses and one pony.

Cupid

Hercules

Dionysus

Poseidon

The Twins: Apollo and Meander

I can't tell these boys apart!  Withers.

Gaia

Hera

Pearl

Clover

Hay is Here!

what a relief and a thrill to have great horse hay again - we were nearly out - knowing you have mouths to feed - goats and horses - and the weather has been so precarious...it is a relief, for sure.
we need about 3,000 bales for the winter months.

Kids 2015

8 KIDS BORN 2015

from Further

Thea 

Rhea

from Diana

Gaia

Maia

from Hera

Hercules

from Hygenia "indie"

Venus

Dionysus

from Khaos

Bacchus

Hercules, the largest of our 2015 kids, is part La Mancha breed and part Sannen, Apawawa

here is the buck or sire

here is the doe or dam

see the small ears of the lamancha breed

Kids at Play 2015