Milk Test results – 2025
All the does are dry and we are waiting for kidding season to start in March. In 2025, we freshened 7 does and by the late summer, had the milkers reduced to just 4 remaining. For 2026, we are freshening…
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Sawfish Lamanchas 2025 Linear Appraisal
This afternoon we were a host herd for linear appraisal (LA). If you aren’t familiar with the LA program from ADGA, you can read about it here. This was our second time to do LA and we had one other herd…
Big E 2025
Another exhausting but amazing 4 days at the Big E has come and gone. With Quinn aged-out of 4-H, Amanda is the only youth left showing goats. Adding to the madness, I (Rob) returned from a work trip at 1130…
Blandford Fair Goat Show 2025
Another weekend, another goat show. Today, (9/1/25) we went to the Blandford, MA Fair. We attended last year for the first time. While this show is a 2 hr drive away, it is sanctioned and it’s nice to see a…
Goat shows – Heath and Brooklyn
Last Sunday (8/17/25) we headed to the Heath, MA Fair for the first time. They have an ADGA sanctioned show we wanted to check out and we really enjoyed this event. Amanda was headed to camp in VT, so Anna…
Windham County 4-H fair 2025
On Thursday evening Amanda and Quinn went to set up at the 2025 Windham 4-H Fair. Quinn is now aged out of 4-H but still stays involved and helping out. Friday afternoon Amanda and Quinn drove the goats over to…
Nutmeg Classic 2025
On Saturday, Rob, Anna and Amanda attended the Connecticut Dairy Goat Association’s Nutmeg Classic ADGA show. It was a cool rainy kind of day and it poured for four days in the week leading up to the show making show…
Kidding is DONE!
Last Tuesday our last goat to kid went into labor. It was Sawfish QS Bali. Bali is a really cute loudly colored black and white yearling doe. I found her a little warm and uncomfortable on Tuesday afternoon, pawing lightly…
Ferrari’s kids
On April 3, her due date, Ferrari went into labor. I separated her into a kidding stall and about an hour into active labor things stalled. I called Rob for him to come home, because I was alone, and I…
Milk Test 2025 #1
This year we are participating in Milk Test with our goats. That means we will have days throughout the year where we record the weight of milk produced by each doe and send samples of their milk out for testing.…