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  • Kidding Season Update

    Kidding Season Update

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    Nerdbilly

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    Wow, it’s been a busy kidding season so far. We had our early arrivals five weeks ago, whom you’ve already met: Flora and Fauna. Since last week, however, we’ve had several births. Ginger gave births to twins last Friday, two little doelings. Unfortunately one of the girls did not make it. Poor little Ava. We’re…

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  • New Buck Pen & Baby Goat Parkour

    New Buck Pen & Baby Goat Parkour

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    Nerdbilly

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    Well, it’s been a busy few weeks! Last night we moved our two bucks and our polled intersex doe, who for all purposes thinks she’s a buck, into their new digs. They’ve been living in close quarters inside of a pen in our barn, and we’ve been desperate to get them outside somehow, but because…

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  • Do Goats Mow Your Lawn?

    Do Goats Mow Your Lawn?

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    Nerdbilly

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    That’s a notion that many people hold – that goats are “Nature’s Lawnmowers.” And while goats will eat grass, their preference is to browse things at head height or above – which, not so coincidentally, is also where they find the most nutrition and avoid the potential parasite infections coming from lower grasses. If you’d…

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