Just wanted to share our excitement here on MigMog Acres this last week! About a week ago, my landlord, who lives across the road from me, called to warn me he had heard a Cougar, and his dog took off down their driveway (which comes out across from
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These gross dirty people are in town. I want them to get away and leave my goats and I alone. It will really tick me off if I find any trying to steal any of my goats or horses or any of the other animals. My town has a population of 8,000 people a
Read more…So sad about this, so wanted black buckling to be herd sire, but hormones raging around here must come to an end, Boys hollering too much for town whether they are yelling for moms or girls.
This a.m., getting buckskin buckling in other pen, I tripp
Read more…Whenever I post on Facebook or my blog that I'm doing a workshop or conference in my area, I usually get a message from someone asking me if I'd do a workshop in their area. When I organized the homesteading conference in IL last year, someone from V
Read more…Hey, I'm bugging everyone again. You were all so nice to help with photos for the feature on Nigerian Dwarf Goatsin the first issue of our magazine for girls, Growing in Virtue. Thank you! For our second issue, we are doing a feature on Shetland s
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A couple of days ago, I left a message for Joann, previous owner of my girls. I was wanting to take Ginger out to spend a few hours with Crazy. Today, her daughter called me to return the call since it was about goats (and her mom loves her
Read more…So about 5 days ago my little grey calico was outside. That night she didnt come back to the house. Then the next day she didnt come back and so on. I was basically crying myself to sleep wondering where is she? Did she get killed? Well this morning
Read more…I got to ride this horse (Morning Star) a couple weekends ago and it was a blast got to ride up the road. I am thrilled I got to ride her. I am so thrilled because almost 3 years ago Morning Star developed Laminitis. She is almost fully recovered and
Read more…Last night I realized Penny was missing at milking time. She was my very first Nigerian doe. she was a temperamental milker but this year I had finally made peace with her and she milked without complaint. I almost sold her last year because once
Read more…I am almost done with the article on Nigerian Dwarf goats for our new magazine for girls, www.growinginvirtue.com . I received some wonderful photos that I was able to use! I just need a couple more. I give a brief discussion on buying a milk goat
Read more…Well, I got my ADGA herd name back today, and of course Wonderland was not available. I am pretty bummed, because Wonderland was my herd name in every other registry and I was really attatched. But, what can ya do?
Anyway, I am trying to decide if I
Read more…I am still looking for "just the right blue-eyed boy"! One with all the right stuff and just happens to have blue eyes too! This little guy is available and looks like he may be swollen from disbudding in the photo! The white buck is dad, Oldesouth B
I just had to introduce my new doe (French's Dream Twisted Sister; Twister for short) and kids, even though they're not Nigerians. I plan to pick them up on Tuesday. I'm keeping the doe, who is going to be a year old on the 18th. Her buckling is g
Read more…Bobcat and Lynx seem very plentiful this winter! We saw a lynx a couple of days ago, and tonight we had a major encounter with a bobcat.
When we opened the chicken coop door, we wondered why the chickens were outside in the snow in the dark. Then w
Read more…I know this is a goat forum but I know a lot of you on here have chickens too so was hoping I could get a answer to a quick question I have. I am gonna make a little run/ coop for them to be in when I don't want to have them roaming the whole yard. I
Read more…Had a fun day today. One of my friends that lives about 7-8 miles away from me called me at 10:30 this morning and asked me if I wanted to ride my horse to her house. So I called my mom but my parents were out fishing and had no cell service so I cal
Read more…We have started a new family business, Hearts Toward Home Publications and we will be publishing two magazines, one for boys and one for girls. They are for ages 12-17 and will teach Godly living and practical skills. The girls magazine, Growing i
Read more…My Provincial Goat Association just sent out this info about changes to Import Requirements for small ruminants. If any of you have looked into importing NDGs from the US you know that it's basically impossible to import does because of the Scrapie r
Read more…This doesn't really warrant a post on any of the goat care areas. But my beloved Miyagi's daughter is a week old yesterday and didn't have a name yet. We FINALLY all agreed.
Her registered name is Ai-Ki-Doe. (after the martial art Aikido, a refe
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