As anyone who has ever met the animals here at Piscataway Acres knows, the goats love to jump on people.  Thankfully they are Nigerian Dwarfs, so they are smaller and manageable, but this is what I get for spoiling them rotten.
The other day I cleaned out the barn.  This required to pull out old hay, [...]

When I first went out today, it was late morning.  The heat was mounting and the animals were in a sedentary state.  The goats rested in a thoroughly shady spot under a cluster of trees in the yard.
The sheep have decided that one of their favorite cool spots is on the cement under the back porch. [...]

Last night, a post was done discussing the signs of labor.  I made a prediction based on the signs I had read about and saw in Kit before she gave birth that Kaboodle would lamb either through the night last night, or in the morning.  Apparently, the signs are accurate as Kaboodle gave birth to a [...]

One week ago today, Kit had her first lamb.  A little girl that I named Ella.  She is doing very well.  Kaboodle has not yet lambed, but if my reading of the “signs” is correct, I predict Kaboodle will lamb either tonight or tomorrow morning.
The anticipation leading up to the moment of lambing has been high.  [...]

The last few days Kit and her lamb have been kept in one of the nice rooms in the barn that opens up to a small fenced in yard.  They have done well here and both mother and daughter are doing very well.  But Kit seemed anxious to get out into the woods to find [...]

Kit, the Icelandic ewe, gave birth to a healthy, albeit small female lamb.  After a lot of worrying, both mother and daughter appear to be healthy and doing well.  My biggest concern was that Kit wouldn’t accept the little girl, but she has turned out to be a decent enough mother.  Thankfully the lamb is [...]

After several days of very hot temperatures, we had a nice day today.  Most of the day was in the low 70’s and fairly low humidity with a nice breeze.  All the animals had a great time out and about, not having to hide under some shade.  The sheep were particularly grateful as they don’t [...]

It has been a very hot spring and summer.  The animals are doing okay, but they are not happy with the high temperatures.  Because the goats come from Africa and the pigs from Southeast Asia, they are dealing with the heat a lot better than the sheep, from Iceland.  My plan is to sheer the [...]

In  previous post, it was mentioned that Chesapeake dug up a piece of ground for his own garden.  I planted some corn and other items that I thought he would enjoy, then fenced it off with some left over fencing.  I knew the fence wasn’t very strong, but thought that it may give just enough [...]

Darwin the dog has enjoyed many different kinds of lives in his 10 years.  He has been a city dog, a suburbia dog, a beach dog, a mountain dog, and now he is getting to be a farm dog. 
Darwin was planning on going to Alaska with his parents.  He had high hopes of participating [...]