Bucking Goat Farm

05/30/2026

Well, well, well,…got home this afternoon and found Queenie with 2 babies. One boy and one girl.

05/27/2026

Ariel surprised us this afternoon with two baby girls. Kidding season is really turned on the heat!

05/27/2026

Princess blessed us with a baby boy and a baby girl this afternoon.

05/25/2026

Bonnie had a big baby boy today. That makes 10 new babies so far.

05/24/2026

Helen blessed us with 2 babies this morning. I boy and one girl. I thought it was Ruth. That’s a sign that we have too many goats. 😅

05/22/2026

05/22/2026

Babe made her debut with her two little girls today. Meet Petunia and Penelope.

05/22/2026

In June 1874, near Weatherford, Texas, long rows of wagons stood loaded with thousands of buffalo hides gathered from hunts across the southern plains. The hot summer air carried the strong smell of drying hides and smoke while hunters and cowboys climbed onto the towering stacks for photographs, proud of the success they believed represented opportunity and progress.
For many settlers and traders, the buffalo trade brought money, expansion, and the rapid growth of towns across the frontier. Railroad companies, hide dealers, and hunting crews all profited from the enormous demand for buffalo hides and leather products during that time.
But those wagons represented more than business.
They also marked the rapid destruction of one of the largest wildlife populations in North America. Only a few years earlier, millions of buffalo had moved across the plains in herds so massive they seemed endless. By the mid-1870s, large sections of those herds had nearly disappeared.
The loss deeply affected Indigenous nations such as the Comanche and Kiowa, whose cultures, survival, and traditions were closely tied to the buffalo. The animals provided food, clothing, tools, shelter materials, and played a central role in everyday life on the plains.
As commercial hunting expanded, entire ecosystems and ways of life were permanently changed.
At the time, many people viewed the slaughter as a sign of progress and western expansion. Few stopped to consider how quickly something so vast and important could vanish.
Looking back today, the scene tells a different story — one of rapid change, environmental destruction, and the loss of a way of life that could never fully be restored.
The wagons filled with hides became symbols of a turning point in American history, when the drive for profit and expansion forever changed the plains and the people who depended on them.

05/22/2026

Some dogs enter our lives and leave paw prints so deep that time itself cannot erase them. They teach us the beauty of unconditional love, the pain of profound loss, and the courage to open our hearts again. Though no beloved companion is ever truly replaced, each new bond becomes an extension of the love they first inspired. In loving them, we discover that our hearts are capable of growing even through grief.