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Baby Goats

Some of the new whippersnappers keeping us busy.

Posted byBenMarch 9, 2020March 11, 2020Posted ingoats, livestock, UncategorizedTags:dairy goats, fox holler, fox holler farmstead, grassfed, off the grid, raw milk, regenerative agricultureLeave a comment on Baby Goats

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The piglets are growing stronger everyday, even beginning to graze and waller at 3 weeks. The new gilts Peach and Plum are co-nursing both litters, with Plum doing most of the heavy lifting and Peach doing most of the grazing and lazing.

I worked up a dozen beds yesterday in preparation for rain and, soon enough, transplanting time. It was also World Naked Gardening Day, but I felt a little too vulnerable to broadfork nude, surrounded by pig paddocks.

I like it when they get grass stains on their mouths.

The pivot bolt on our laying hen wagon sheared off yesterday. When I tried working on it I also managed to partially bust the tongue. With enough tow chain and some crafty maneuvering, I think I can get it back to functional enough... But this may be the final push I need to ditch fossil fuel conveyances in my pasturing.

With second winter behind us, the piglets are exploring the pastures more, and even begin to graze. A stark contrast from farrowing crate/containment hog raising. In our system, piglets quickly gain experience by hanging out with their mothers, and learning from them.

Little pigs... That's what I got.

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