Recent content by The homstead

we found someone a few hours away that is getting out of the dairy goat business and we are going to go check them out. She has three that she wants rid of two milking does and a doeling. So I’ll keep y’all updated as to weather we get them or not.

I think the only kid that would understand right now would be my oldest and he wouldn’t 100% get it so it’ll be a few years until it all gets explained. My middle son will probably end up being a vegetarian once he realizes meat comes from animals. ( he doesn’t eat deer meat because he knows...

She seems to be eating pretty well so far. As of right now she chases the hens around our yard. I assume just because she is curious about them

well my wife and I went to an auction today. The dairy goats they had looked pretty rough so we didn’t end up buying any this time. However there was a little Hereford heifer calf all on her lonesome (probably the prettiest calf I have ever seen and I just had to have her) so I guess we have our...

Yes we get our time in on our little farm yard. It won’t be long and they will all be out working me.

Yes. The boys love taking care of the animals. They are half help and half a disaster when it comes to the garden still. They need just a little more time to learn when things are ripe.

My wife and I are looking to adding milking goats to our homestead. We currently raise chickens dogs rabbits and children. We are fairly self sufficient with gardening and raising the chickens and rabbits however we want to take it a step further and try our luck raising goats for milk cheese...

Hello all. I am located in north central West Virginia. My wife and I have four children 3 boys and 1 girl all under the age of six. We are homestead self sufficient type people. We raise chickens rabbits and hopefully we will be adding milking goats to the herd this year.