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Penny 2Cents Delivers the Farm’s First Fainter Baby

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Last year, Aaron gave me a fainting goat for my birthday. Honestly, it’s one of the most hilarious and amazing gifts I’ve ever received. That is – until this gem of an early birthday gift. While roaming the Goat Grove, Penny 2Cents delivered the farm’s very first fainter baby. He’s a sweet little white thing with a dark stripe down …

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Coyote Season is in Full Swing

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Coyote season is here. It’s been a loud one on the farm. With the new baby goats in the barn and the remaining goats bellowing at them from the Goat Grove, we’ve attracted our fair share of predators. After dark every evening, we can hear coyotes in the woods surrounding our entire property. Their howls and yips are incredibly loud. …

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Baby Goats Get a Big Warm Welcome to the Farm

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The great thing about new babies on the farm – they always attract guests! The winter tends to be pretty mellow around here. We’re typically juggling a barrage of mini projects between cold snaps. If we’re lucky, things generally keep running smoothly. But, when there is snow on the ground and below zero chills in the air – we really don’t get …

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Expanding the Livestock Pen in the Pole Barn

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We have 12 new goats. That’s 25 goats total. If it wasn’t obvious before, it’s painfully obvious now that we don’t actually have the barn space to shuffle this many pregnant goats at one time. Our big aspirations for more stalls, more pens and – honestly – just an entirely new barn for the critters is going to take way more time …

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Kili Got Sprayed by a Skunk

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Our very good girls have been extremely busy protecting the farm from just about everything. Coyotes, bumps in the night and…skunks. This morning, a horrid smell wafted through the front door as we let the indoor dogs go outside. We searched the kitchen for bad trash and poopy diapers. When our search turned up nothing, we chalked it up to …

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Saying ‘Goodbye’ to Our Bottle Baby

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Within a day of returning home from our trip, we noticed that one of the newest goat babies needed some extra attention. He was weak and stumbling. It was clear he wasn’t getting as much to eat as his siblings – our second set of triplets this season. We brought him inside and went to work with powdered goat milk and …

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Returning Home to a Ton of Goats

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When Aaron planned a quick Aspen getaway for the family – he didn’t quite factor in the due dates for the goats. To be fair, he didn’t really know them. Not for sure anyway. He had his hunches, but it was too late. The Airbnb was booked. The wheels were rented. We were committed. Plus, if we hadn’t gone, those goats …

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Goat-a-palooza Continues

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You guys, we have so many new goats on the farm that I’ve genuinely lost track of who has had how many babies, where they’re staying and who is left to have more. That said – there are more babies in the pole barn and it looks like all the mamas have their own little ones to watch now. Not …

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Even More Adorable New Kids

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Mary Mary – quite contrary – had her freaking babies in the Goat Grove. She must have learned a thing or two from our first mama of the season because everyone is healthy, cute and having a great time. But, holy moly, let me tell you the rapid panic that circulates when you get the text that there are two brand spanking …

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Mama Goat Delivers Triplets Again

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Naturally, as soon as we left the farm for our family vacation, Mama Goat (yes, that’s her actual super creative name) delivered the most adorable triplets you’ve ever seen. Nothing like pure insanity on the farm while you try to relax with time away, right? Much like our other mama, she delivered all on her own without any problems. It …