A Little Extra Feed to Boost Next Year's Kid Crop
Earlier this year we saw that the kidding results from last year's breeding were significantly higher. While there were many factors, such as our new bucks, that could have contributed to this boost,...
View ArticleSelecting a Herd Sire
Whether you get your buck by buying, leasing, or just picking one to keep from last year's kid crop, you've got to have some criteria and standards to use in your decision. People often ask "what...
View ArticleHow to Build A Better Buck Pen
Summer is quickly wearing away, and if you've been in the goat business very long, you know what that means: Love is in the air! This time of year, when the bucks are in rut, they can be very hard on...
View ArticleBreeding Safely: Size Matters
As we always do this time of year, we have been preparing our breeding plan so we can strategize what does we want to breed to what buck. While we try to think about a lot of things as we decide what...
View ArticleHow to Overcome a Fickle Goat Buying Market
As even the most inexperienced sales-person can tell you, you must have the product your customer is looking for in order to make a sale. But how can you do this in goat ranching? It seems that the...
View ArticleUsing Goats To Train Horses, Doesn't It Run Off The Weight
You may wonder why we would trail the goats around on horseback. You might even ask, doesn't that take off the weight. If so, it would seem counterproductive. It's really not. Goats are more like deer...
View ArticleClean Up Bucks Are A Good Idea
We like to use a clean up buck as part of our typical breeding program. A clean up buck is a second swipe at breeding by allowing a different buck the opportunity to breed does that might not have...
View ArticleSurvival Instincts in Goats
Like all animals, goats have different characteristics that help their ability to stay alive. Some are stronger, some are healthier, but something a lot of people don't think about is the ability of...
View ArticleGoats For Christmas; You Gotta Be Kidding!
We aren't kidding, not until January! Goats make a Christmas present your spouse will never forget. Think about it, how many times have you heard someone say, " I got goats for Christmas. " You...
View ArticleGoats Make Great Training Partners For Young Horses
Goats have many uses from brush control to food to milk. In our drought stricken area, just keeping the undergrowth cleared is a huge benefit. Of course, most of us like to eat and goat meat is good...
View ArticleDrought Makes Feeding Grain a Necessity
Opposed as we are to feeding grain and supplements to the livestock, the lack of rain this year has forced our hands. As with most ranches in the Oklahoma area, the lack of water killed off the forage...
View ArticleA Special Thanks - Leslie Edmundson; Spanish Goat Association
We would like to express our genuine appreciation to Leslie Edmundson at the Spanish Goat Association. Leslie puts in countless uncompensated hours of hard work and dedication to helping preserve the...
View ArticleSpanish Goat Genetic Conservation Efforts
Lately there has been a surge in organizations, like the SVF, that are trying to preserve the embryos and semen of endangered species like Spanish goats. Their goal is to ensure that the unique...
View ArticleHere Come the Kids!
We're excited to say that our baby goats will be coming any time now! We bred pretty early last fall so we'll be kidding a little before the first of February. The weather may end up being kinda...
View ArticleThe Kids Are Here!
Our favorite part of goat ranching has finally arrived! We had our first birth of the kidding season today! A beautiful set of Kensing Spanish twins. We can't wait to see what they grow up to be, but...
View ArticleWhat Kidding Season Means to Us
For a lot of folks, kidding season is a dreaded time of the year - late nights pulling kids, lots of miscarriages, long hours bottle feeding babies. I can definitely see how miserable that would be. In...
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Baby Goat Pictures
Here are a couple pictures of the first baby goat kids of the season. It's gonna be a great year!
View ArticleGoat Prices in 2013: They're Going Up!
MESSAGE TO STRUGGLING RANCHERS: Hang on just a little bit longer!In case you haven't been watching some of the recent fluctuations in the agricultural market, here's a quick recap of some...
View ArticleMcCoy Meets a Goat Kid
We were out tagging kids earlier and saw our new Livestock Guardian Dog, McCoy, meeting this baby goat for the first time. At first we were afraid he might think of the kid as a 'new toy,' but he was...
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Why So Many Bucklings?
It's a crazy thing with goats, sometimes they just won't let the dice of chance land the way you want them to. Take Number 1 for example; she had yet another set of beautiful twins this year. As we...
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