My question is from Julie Anne Lail who says, "Martok, what can you tell me about the difficulty and equipment that will be going into the Angora goats we are planning to purchase? Will it be difficult to learn how to shear?”
Simon the cat was the only feline to win the PDSA's Dicken Medal, honoring animals that demonstrate outstanding bravery during wartime.
Mom has two new bottle babies. They’re our smallest goats yet! They’re Nigerian Dwarf preemies born 21 days before they were due.
Keep your livestock and yourself safe from Q fever with these management tips.
If your milk is worth the squeeze but your schedule is packed, consider moving to a once-a-day milking regimen.
Provide for your family’s milk, butter and cheese needs by adding a dairy cow to the farmstead.
One of Mom’s friends rescued Sweetie, the Pygmy goat, but now Sweetie needs a home so she’s come to live with us on our farm.
I’m going to be in a mini-documentary because my mom is a crazy goat lady! We goats knew that all along. Now because of us, she might be famous.
Our mom isn't very imaginative when she calls us animals in from the pasture. When she wants the goats and sheep to come in, she hollers, "Goat, goat! Sheep, sheep!"
Take a look inside the complex stomachs of cows, sheep, goats and other ruminant livestock.
We have two new goats at our house and, boy, are they tiny! They came to live with us because someone threw them away. Can you believe it?!
When Uzzi and I were little kids, we drank milk from bottles. It was good! Then Mom said we got too old for milk, and we started eating hay instead.
