This winter has been very unusual for us and not just due to the records amounts of snow fall!  These cold temperatures have reeked havoc on our breeding plans and as such all of our girls will be kidding much later than planned originally this spring.  Kidding season kicks off here officially with Lucretia's due date on April 30th!  The rest of the pairings are all follows;

Lucretia X Imperial K Gigalo                                          Due April 30th
Ash Donna X Imperial K Gigalo                                     Due May 4th
Sky River Meadows Asia X Lone Larch FPM Bee Bop            Due May 8th
Tripping Billies Delilah X Sky River Meadows Hades            Due May 11th
Tripping Billies Loo (Maisie) X Imperial K Gigalo                 Due May 12th
BJS Ophelia X Prairie Wood No-Way Jose                          Due May 12th
Daphne X Prairie Wood No-Way Jose                               Due May 17th
Sky River Meadows Cassiopeia X Lone Larch FPM Bee Bop    Due May 20th
Sky River Meadows Calypso X Sky River Meadows Hercules    Due May 29th
Sky River Meadows Luna X Sky River Meadows Hades         Due May 31st
Imperial K Bonnie X Prairie Wood No-Way Jose                  Due June 14th
Tripping Billies Carmela X Sky River Meadows Merak          Due June 23rd
Sylvan X Sky River Meadows Hercules                               Due June 24th
Sky River Meadows Neveah X Sky River Meadows Cosmos     Due June 26th

We plan to retain a daughter from Delilah, Neveah and Ophelia.  All others will likely be available for sale but of course we will make those decisions once kids are on the ground! 

Reflecting back on 2013 I realize that we had an incredible year!  We had many ups and downs in our personal lives but the farm had nothing but successes and growth!  We head into 2014 with optimism and hope that we will have another great year. 

One of the things we look forward to each New Year is the recycling of Christmas trees!  We ask for families to donate their used trees to our goats so that rather than filling the landfills with trees, they can donate them to our herd as a great eco alternative.  Our goats love the trees and easily finish off several trees every single day, stripping them of all the needles and most of the bark leaving behind a strange looking tree shaped pile of wood.  We have several families and businesses that donate trees to our herd and we are appreciative of all of them!

Some new additions to our farm this past holiday was the purchase of some new technology.  We are now in possession of an ultra sound machine which will allow us to monitor and confirm pregnancies much quicker and less invasively.  We also purchased a tattoo gun which will also allow us to tattoo our herd identifications onto our goats without them having to endure all the pain of the traditional tattoo method.  We are also available for hire for doing tattoos or ultrasounds now!  If anyone is interested in hiring these services, please contact us!