Guilty - Farm Photo of the Week

There was a mystery in the goat pen this morning. When I walked through the gate to feed the goats I about fell into a new, giant hole right smack dab in the middle of the goat pen. Is a sink hole developing? Did Kansas have an earthquake last night I did not know about? Was someone trying to hide a body in the goat pen? This hole was certainly big enough to hide a body in. I just don't know. I asked Bear if he knew who dug the crater in the middle of the goat pen. He just looked up at me with his soft, brown eyes and an innocent look as if to say "I have no idea how that got there!" Hmmm....well he certainly looks innocent of any hole digging doesn't he?


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Our New Livestock Guardian Pup!

Say hello to our new livestock guardian pup! This video was taken less than a week after we got him. His previous owner said his name was Bandit and usually I like to keep an animal's name that they are used too. The problem is we already have a perfectly frustrating escape artist in a goat coat that is named Bandit so that might make things a bit confusing here on the farm. The new pup is only four months old according to his previous owner so I think he will adjust to a new name fairly easily. I have been calling him Bear, and that sort of sounds like Bandit. I am not sure it really matters as my husband keeps calling him "Puppy" and he comes to that faster than either Bandit or Bear. I have encouraged my husband to use his proper name so as not to confuse this sweet new member of our Farm family!

I have been looking for a new male Great Pyrenees for the last year or so. Our old guardian Dreyfus died a couple years ago and left an empty spot on our farm and in my heart. Of course nobody could ever replace Dreyfus, he was such a special dog and I am not sure anybody could ever fill those big paws of his but Bear is doing a good job so far.

PS. Yes, I totally hate my voice in this video! My husband says I sound drunk. I assure you I wasn't drunk, no field sobriety test in the goat pen needed, (like anybody could ever really walk a straight line in a pen full of goats anyway, come on!)I just talk slow. It is the Kansas accent maybe. Just pay attention to the cute puppy!

Help Find A Missing Goat in Oklahoma!

This is Journey, she is a LaMancha dairy goat. Isn't she just beautiful? Sadly, her owner Carol is desperately trying to find her and I am hoping that by posting this on my blog and trying to get the word out in other ways that it will somehow help Journey to be found and returned to her worried owner.

Journey has a tattoo on the underside of her tail which reads, YJ/Y10. Carol was traveling home from the Texas Dairy Goat Show in Wichita Falls when Journey vanished. She was in the trailer when they stopped in Sherman and had vanished when they arrived in Checotah, Oklahoma. The only other stop was for fuel in Kiowa, Oklahoma and they did not open the trailer at that time. Though evidence of Journey near the convenience store in Kiowa, Oklahoma was later found. Carol is headed back to Kiowa today to resume the search for Journey.

Please help to find Journey by getting the word out about her. Reposting about her on your Facebook pages or different goat groups you belong too can only help. If you are at a goat sale in Oklahoma be on the lookout for this beautiful LaMancha. If you hear about a goat running loose in Oklahoma or see someone selling a dairy goat that could be her on Craigslist let Carol know!

If you have any information about Journey at all you can reach her owner Carol at 918-470-2592 and there are more pictures of Journey on the "does" page of Carol's website at www.goatsinme.com.

Photo courtesy of Carol Stafford.

Goat Races

A day at the err.. goat races? I just love the little stuffed jockeys on their backs. hehe