Pics of my babies

[Oat Bucket Farm]

Since they are all up for sale and I think the girls at least have already found a wonderful home, this will be last time I post pics of my goats.

Bella (Crossroads End Lady Antebellum)




Missy (Beyond Goats Arial's Star)




Epic (Crossroads End Epic Fantasy)




And Captain (Crossroads End Captain)

[The Tin Mom]

Wow, they look great! Love the way their legs are under their bodies instead of straight off their necks.

They look so healthy and happy! I will miss seeing pics of your beautiful goaties. You and Prairiedog take such good care of them.

[KSALguy]

why are you selling out? they are very nice looking goats,

[GoldenWood Farm]

Such beautiful girls, makes me sad to see you having to sell them . But I am glad you may have found a great home for them .

Justine

[Minelson]

What did I miss?! Why are you selling out? They are gorgeous goats...((((hugs))))

[Oat Bucket Farm]

Yes, we are selling out. Second year in a row for a drought and hay is too hard to find and what I do find is over an hour away and very expensive. I can only fit five bales at a time in my minivan, so the gas makes it even more expensive. In addition to that, the rest of their feed keeps going up in price. On top of that, I am busier than I ever dreamed I would be in marketing my book (since I'm an indie author, that all falls on me) I'm maintaining an author blog now, an author FB page, and a Twitter account. I'm also working on writing the next book and homeschooling starts back up soon. Between the difficulty buying hay, the raising cost of the feed, and the time, I just can't do it anymore. The only bright side is I will finally be able to take the kids camping. We've had livestock of one kind or another for so long, they have never been. There is no one to milk and feed for us.

I will be incredibly sad to see them go, but I am at peace with it.

Talked to a lady this evening. She already has a mixed herd of LaManchas, Alpines, and Nubians. She loved the Manchas best. She's only had goats about a year and started asking me all kinds of questions and just soaking up the info and asked if I would mentor her. Then she asked, "Since I didn't already know all of this, are you comfortable selling them to me?" My response, "You are willing to learn, so yes." She already feeds a lot like I do here. Tonight she learned about copper and Bo-Se, wormers and dosages and was writing all of it down. She has ten acres with ponds. Her goats have a lot of room to roam along with an LGD. They have a barn they go in at night where their hay is. A few months ago, they had a dog attack that tore open a big vessel in their very old doe's face (an injured several others. They held pressure on the does face until they got the vets out there. Yes, I said vets. They had three vets and two techs out there that night to the tune of 900.00. Then the next month, a wether got hung up in the fence by his leg. 600.00 and one leg later, they have a three legged wether running around. They rescued a buck and then found out he has CAE. So they wethered him and he just runs around as a pet because he is "just so sweet and lovable". They fixed the fence, have an LGD now and barn the girls go into for safety at night. Two of their other goats were rescues. Some of their dogs are rescues. They have huge hearts for animals. Their place is very nice.

I think it will be a great home for them. They even decided, since they don't have any bucks, to take the boys. So all four of them get to go to the same wonderful home together. They aren't going to know what to do with all of the space to roam.

It makes it easier to say goodbye to them.

[The Tin Mom]

Oh, I am so happy for them! I knew they would have an awesome home with you. Sounds like you found an alternate awesome home! Thnks, OBF!

[LoneStrChic23]

Awww, they are just beautiful!

I'm so sad to read this, but happy they have found a good home! Maybe a few years down the road when you're a big time author on the NY Times best seller list you can have your goats again, and pay someone to do the chores when you can't Then you can have your goats & camp too

I can totally relate to the drought woes.... I have 3 breeds & after kidding season will have to cut either the Lamanchas or the Alpines (the only Nubian stays because she's my daughters pet and there is only one of her)....... I have 4 Alpines, 4 Lamanchas, and at least 4 will have to go... Sucks, but hay is just too much

[Backfourty,MI.]

Your girls are beautiful & I know your going to miss them terribly! Sometimes the road were on wanders a bit but who knows you may get goats later on. Sounds like they will be well cared for & that's a great feeling I'm sure.

[prairiedog]

The one thing I have discovered is that life is fluid and you have to be ready to change with it. If you had ask me 15 years ago if I would be living in small town USA raising dairy goats and all I would have laughed. I have enjoyed this phase of life a lot and am looking forward to what the next stage holds.