January Photos
We want to share some photos with you of the farm during this season and to show you our friends in the barn !! Finally, the winter is here with a little bit of snow. We don’t have a lot this year, that is until now.
Merry Christmas
We’d like to take this season of joyous celebration and light renewed to thank all of you, our loyal readers who have discovered and subscribed to our blog. It is hard to believe that at this time last year the concept of writing a blog had bearly been discussed. I was still contemplating (with a…
Coeur’s Story
On a farm, everyday there is something new. This past spring we had 2 baby goats with special stories. Today, I will tell you about Coeur. (Coeur means heart in French, and we think you’ll agree this little goat’s name suits her very well.) In April one of the does had twin kids,…
Presenting!, …Angel, Our New Goat!!!
Today, we’d like you to meet our new dairy goat, Angel. We’ve been very lucky and the products we make using our goat’s milk are more and more successful. So we decided to increase our milk production capacity. (Also, I would like to make goat cheese and will be getting lessons in how to…
Animal Care: Hoof Trimming!
As you can imagine, there are many things to do on the farm. Among these one of the most important is caring for our animals, so they stay healthy and have a happy life. Our first concern is feeding. In summer, they can graze in our pastures while in winter they are in the barn…
Step Two In The Fibre’s Journey, Skirting The Fleece!
In the post Shearing Time we showed you how we shear our goats, and in this post we continue our fibre journey. Skirting (or sorting) The Fibre: After shearing, the next step is skirting (the process of removing sections of the fleece which are dirty, coarse, or contaminated ). My technique continues to improve (there…
Shearing time
We would like to share our angora goats shearing time with you. This is done twice a year ( in fall and spring ) because their fleeces grow really fast (about one inch per month). The day before the shearer comes they are all confined in the barn so they stay dry. Then we try our…
