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Bottle Baby Update

By Amy Rae on April 8, 2016
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I am so glad to report some great news - our little house goat baby is doing fantastically well!  She had a hard time eating for the first several days, she's still working on how to use her tongue.  When she tries to suck, it just falls out the side of her mouth and she doesn't actually put suction on the nipple, she just pumps the milk back into the bottle.

Here Come the Kids

By Amy Rae on April 5, 2016
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Kidding season has started - although we're off to a rough start. I'm hoping it improves from here - logically the problems are much more likely early - early babies are often early for a reason (mother's poor health, a deficiency or disease) and after that, things usually improve.  

We're Still Here

By Amy Rae on March 19, 2016
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I apologize for the - what, 4 week?! - hiatus there!  For the first week, I wasn't doing a whole lot besides cleaning, carding, and spinning fleece and knitting a couple pairs of slippers someone ordered.  Then, the next few weeks were surprisingly busy with a variety of activities and I just never had a chance to write anything!  We've hosted 2 different groups, conducted a goat roundup, got our beef back and sold most of it, and gotten the sheep sheared!

Animal Wrap-up (I Hope!)

By Amy Rae on December 26, 2015
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Well, there are only 5 days left in the year - Merry Christmas, by the way! :)  I really hope we are done with the medical drama of this summer and fall, so I wanted to give a year-end update.  

The Summer of Medical Emergencies

By Amy Rae on October 11, 2015
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I don't know about y'all, but here at Solace Farm, medical situations only seem to happen at the most inopportune times.  Yesterday - Saturday, of course - we had 2!  And they are hopefully the last in a long string of them this whole summer.  

Farm Odds and Ends

By Amy Rae on June 22, 2015
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I don't have any one thing to report today, but there's a number of littler things to chat about.  

Garlic Harvest

By Amy Rae on June 17, 2015
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The garlic is ready to come out, we started harvesting about 2 weeks ago.  I have two varieties that are earlier than the other two, the Elephant and my house blend of Chet's Italian Red and Inchelium Red (they look the same, and the first year I grew them I accidentally combined them).  We started pulling the red first, I like to braid them in large braids (50-100 bulbs) immediately, just for storage purposes.  Later, I will take a few of these big braids apart and rebraid them into smaller, nicer braids for sale.

Well, Never Mind

By Amy Rae on June 13, 2015
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So Nature has this amazing, balanced equation with new and old life - or it just wants you to think that so it can blindside you with whatever it wants!  Friday morning, Caleb moved the animals as usual, and found Olivia and Delia already dead, and Cleo unable to walk.  Caleb remembered that Olivia had looked extremely wide one of the days before, but hadn't thought much of it (you'd think we'd have learned by now to always think something of everything!).  So apparently she was bloated - that's all the info we had on those two.  

Good News, Bad News

By Amy Rae on June 5, 2015
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I was hoping for a more uplifting post this time, and there are some good things to share, but also a couple of notably bad ones.  To set the stage - Caleb had a conference yesterday and didn't get home until 10 pm, and my interns left after lunch yesterday, so it's been just me and the boys...

Goat Wrangling

By Amy Rae on May 25, 2015
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We usually spend our "holidays" doing an interesting project rather than just mundane chores, and this Memorial Day was no different - we had a goat roundup this morning, with 3 student helpers.  It wasn't as big as our usual fall one - only mamas and babies - but it was multi-purpose, which adds time to the whole process.  One goal was to nip all the little boys' bits, so we can keep running a single goat herd without unexpected pregnancies this winter.  I think that's pretty self-explanatory so I won't dwell on their loss :)

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