Bucking Goat Farm

Bucking Goat Farm We raise Boer/Nubian cross and Dwarf Nigerian goats as well as Angus and Chianina/Maine cattle.

08/31/2026

They are growing up & ready for new homes❤️

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08/31/2026

Beautiful girls looking for a new farm💕

08/31/2026

The Girl With Her Doll — Childhood Treasure, ca. 1900

This photograph, taken by traveling photographer **Albert J. Ewing** sometime between **1896 and 1912**, appears to show a young girl standing outside her home in Appalachia while holding a handmade doll.

The doll seems to be made from simple materials, with features such as **cloth, buttons, and yarn**. Handmade toys were common in rural households, particularly when families had limited money for commercially produced toys. Mothers and grandmothers could turn scraps of fabric and other household materials into dolls and children's toys.

The girl's patched clothing and carefully cared-for doll create an especially striking contrast. Even when families had few possessions, children could place enormous value on a favorite toy.

Her serious expression is also typical of early photographs. Long exposure times meant subjects often had to remain still, and smiling for photographs was not yet the universal convention it is today.

It is tempting to interpret the doll as evidence that she was already being prepared for motherhood, but that would go beyond what the photograph itself can establish. More safely, the image shows a child proudly presenting something important to her.

Traveling photographers like Ewing brought photography directly to rural communities, allowing families to preserve portraits that might otherwise have been impossible to obtain.

The girl's doll may have been inexpensive in material terms, but to her it represented **comfort, creativity, and childhood**.

08/27/2026

The Parton Family — Sevier County, Tennessee, 1940s–1950s

Dolly Parton’s childhood is one of the most remarkable American stories of growing up with very little and turning family encouragement into extraordinary achievement.

Born in 1946 in Sevier County, Tennessee, Dolly was the fourth of twelve children of Robert Lee Parton and Avie Lee Owens. The family lived in a small mountain home without modern conveniences, and money was extremely limited. Her father worked in agriculture and other labor, while her mother cared for the large household and filled it with stories, songs, and Appalachian traditions.

Music became part of Dolly’s life early. She began performing as a child, appearing on local radio and television, and by age 13 she had performed at the Grand Ole Opry. Her relatives and neighbors helped encourage her ambitions, giving her opportunities to perform and helping her reach venues she otherwise could not have accessed.

Some details in this account—such as the exact family income, sleeping arrangements, the homemade guitar, and the circumstances surrounding the photograph—should be verified against primary sources. Dolly’s well-known childhood poverty and her family's musical influence, however, are extensively documented.

Dolly later became one of America's most successful songwriters, performers, and entrepreneurs, while remaining closely connected to her Tennessee roots. Her creation of Dollywood transformed that connection into an institution celebrating Appalachian culture and providing employment in the region.

Her childhood illustrates a powerful truth: sometimes the people who encourage a child's dream become part of the reason that dream survives.

08/27/2026

The Last Lullaby - The Violin That Came Back, 1945
This photograph was taken on May 15, 1945, one week after liberation, in a displaced persons camp in Germany. The little girl holding the violin is Eva Merin, age 7.

Eva was one of the children hidden under the orchestra platform by Alma Rosé in Auschwitz (Story 21). When Alma died, Eva was sent to Bergen-Belsen. She survived because a Polish prisoner hid her in a laundry pile for 3 months, feeding her potato peels.

After liberation, British soldiers found her sitting alone in the barracks. She could not speak. She had not spoken in 8 months. A soldier gave her a small wooden violin he found in the camp - it was Alma's violin, with no strings.

Eva held it and for the first time in a year, she hummed the lullaby Alma used to play every night. The soldiers recorded it. That humming was played on BBC Radio on June 6, 1945, and a woman in London recognized it - it was her sister's daughter, thought dead for 3 years.

The photo shows Eva holding that silent violin to her chest, just after she hummed. She was reunited with her aunt 2 weeks later. The violin is now in Yad Vashem Museum in Jerusalem. Children who visit are allowed to hold it.

This is where our 30-story journey ends - not with gold, not with coal, but with a child holding a silent violin that finally made a sound.

08/27/2026

The Camp That Moved With the Crops — Migrant Labor Camps, 1935

During the Great Depression, thousands of families traveled through California following seasonal agricultural work. Families might move from one region to another as different crops became ready for harvest, creating a cycle of temporary employment and constant relocation.

Many migrant camps had extremely poor living conditions. Some workers lived in tents, automobiles, or makeshift shelters, while others stayed in basic cabins. Clean water, sanitation, electricity, and adequate housing were often limited, and overcrowding could create serious health problems.

Agricultural labor was frequently paid according to the amount harvested rather than by the hour. This meant that a family's income could fluctuate sharply depending on crop conditions, available work, and how quickly workers could pick.

Children were also affected. Frequent moves disrupted their education, and some children worked alongside their parents. Reformers documented these conditions and pushed for better housing, sanitation, education, and medical services.

Photographers including Dorothea Lange and Horace Bristol, along with economist and activist Paul Taylor, helped bring national attention to migrant workers' circumstances. The federal government eventually established camps through the Resettlement Administration and later the Farm Security Administration, providing comparatively better facilities at some locations.

The story of one family moving five times in a single summer is fictional, but the broader pattern of seasonal migration and the harsh conditions in many California labor camps are well documented.

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08/27/2026

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08/26/2026

In 1936, during the Great Depression, according to this story, 11-year-old Tommy Lee of Texas dreamed of owning a pony. His family could not afford one, so Tommy looked for another way.

A soda company was reportedly offering a Shetland pony as a prize to anyone who collected 10,000 bottle caps.

Tommy decided to try.

For the next two years, he supposedly searched everywhere he could—along roadsides, around stores, and wherever discarded bottles were found. He reportedly walked several miles each day collecting bottle caps and asking people to save theirs for him.

Eventually, Tommy had gathered approximately **10,000 caps**, filling two large sacks.

He reportedly mailed the collection to the company and waited.

According to the story, the prize arrived: a Shetland pony.

Tommy named the pony **Caps**, after the bottle caps that had earned him his new companion.

The story says Tommy rode Caps to school and cared for the pony for many years. Caps supposedly lived for about two decades.

The account also claims that a photograph of Tommy with his enormous bottle-cap collection appeared in *Life* Magazine.

The story captures the resourcefulness of children during the Depression, when even something as worthless as a discarded bottle cap could become valuable if collected in sufficient numbers.

However, the specific promotion and Tommy Lee story should be independently verified before being presented as established history.

08/26/2026

How to Know If Your Pig Is Pregnant (Early Signs to Look For)

You've bred your sow and now you're wondering:

“Did she actually get pregnant?”

You don't always have to wait until her belly becomes big before you start looking for signs.

One of the first things to watch is whether she comes back into heat.

If the mating was successful, the sow will usually not return to heat around 18–24 days later.

If you notice signs of heat again around this time, such as standing to be mounted, a swollen v***a or increased restlessness, she may not be pregnant.

But if she doesn't return to heat, that's a good sign.

Her behaviour may also change. Some sows become calmer, while others may show changes in appetite or general behaviour.

As the pregnancy progresses, her body will gradually start to change and her belly will become more noticeable.

But don't rely on appearance alone.

A sow looking bigger doesn't automatically mean she's pregnant.

And remember, confirming sow pregnancy is only the beginning.

Once pregnancy is confirmed, good nutrition, proper health management and good care are important to help her carry the pregnancy successfully and give birth to healthy piglets.

So after breeding your sow, don't just wait for her belly to grow.

Pay attention to what she's showing you.

🔴 How do you normally confirm pregnancy in your sows?

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