Chica, Rat Terrier Puppy

This is Chica, the little ball of mischief that John's holding! She's only 4 months old right now and just as cute as a button! She doesn't like to be cold (me neither!) so she came in immediatly after pictures were taken!

Make Your Own Cheese by Rona Sullivan from the July/August, 2006 issue of Dairy Goat Journal. Presenting information, ideas, and insights for everyone who raises, manages, or just loves goats.

OK! It's late fall and the dairy is closed for the season, so now I've got time to do little things like post pictures and links I've found:

Make Your Own Cheese by Rona Sullivan from the July/August, 2006 issue of Dairy Goat Journal. Presenting information, ideas, and insights for everyone who raises, manages, or just loves goats.

Snack Time!

Just found this in some pictures I downloaded from the camera, just too cute!!!

Baby Goats

I am way behind in posting baby pictures! This is from April and show's Jill from Chicago feeding one of the babies while petting another who is demanding attention as well!

Processing Wool & Mohair Fleeces

Sarah, Laura, Kaitlin, and Belinda are learning how to process fleeces.

First you have to pick the fleeces and get out the largest pieces of hay and dirty wool/mohair. Then you soak them in hot soapy water and rinse, rinse, rinse, until the water runs clean. Then we take them and laty them out in drying racks so the sun and summer breezes can gently dry them.

Then we get to card the wool into bats....here is Kaitlin learning how to card with some Jacob fleece a friend gave her when she visited her farm a couple of weeks ago....

And here are some of the finished bats, while carding the fibers are all combed so they lay the same direction and make it easier for the spinner to spin into yarn.

Mama Chicken and 13 baby chicks!

Mama Chicken suprized us with a batch of 13 chicks last Sunday! Had no idea she was hiding a nest let alone so many!! She's proving to be an eggcellent mom and takes after anyone who dares get too close to her babies!

They are just too cute!!!

Milking The Goats!

We have helpers here to learn how to milk goats! Belinda, Kaitlin, and Sarah took turns milking the girls. They have never milked a goat before and had a great time learning how!!