Old Dallas Mountain Farms - Nigerian Dwarf Goats, Cartersville, GA (2026)

09/02/2026

GOAT GOLD AND WEIRDNESS WEDNESDAY

Today’s picture is Lil Miss Fit, also known as Missy, looking sweet, calm, and maybe just a little "miss" chievous. We're hilarious.

GOAT GOLD:

Young goats gain confidence through routine, handling and time with the herd. The more they learn the daily rhythm of the farm, the more comfortable they become with people, chores, feeding, and all the little noises and movements of barn life.

That is one of the sweetest parts of raising goat kids. You get to watch them go from tiny, uncertain little things into young goats who know the schedule, know their people and sometimes know just enough to become mildly (majorly??) inconvenient.

Missy seems to be entering that stage now. She is still sweet, still growing and still figuring things out, but this picture does suggest she may also be developing into her own.

WEIRDNESS:

For Weirdness this week, we are staying farm-adjacent and heading straight into the category of things that sound completely made up. A chicken named Mike once lived for 18 months after losing most of his head. Yup, true story.

In 1945, a farmer in Colorado was preparing chickens for dinner when one rooster somehow survived the process. Enough of his brainstem remained intact that Mike kept living and he eventually became famous as “Mike the Headless Chicken". Really.

So yes, Missy may look a little mischievous in this picture. She may be developing opinions and she may even be forming plans. But compared to a chicken surviving for a year and a half without most of his head, Missy’s current level of suspicious behavior seems fairly manageable.

So in summary:

- Young goats gain confidence through routine and time with the herd.
- Missy appears to be sweet, observant and possibly up to something.
- Mike the Headless Chicken was somehow a real thing.
- We research all of this stuff so you don't have to.

08/30/2026

Boris recently reached an important milestone in his new career as farm mascot.

A couple of months ago, Boris had what we politely referred to as a major change in career direction. This week, that process officially reached its conclusion. We will spare everyone the grisly details but let’s just say Boris is now fully committed to the mascot life.

He seems unbothered and possibly even proud. He sure is a sweet boy though.

Which brings us to today’s picture, because this absolutely looks like his official graduation photo.

08/23/2026

SUNDAY SWEETNESS

Breeding season is just around the corner and our yearlings seem to know something is changing. They are growing up, filling out and starting to look a little less like babies and a little more like young ladies with future responsibilities. Around here, that is always a strange little season. One minute they are tiny kids bouncing around the barn and the next minute we are looking at them and realizing they are almost ready for the next chapter. Of course, they are still goats. So maturity is relative.

They may be getting older but they are still very much interested in cookies, attention, herd drama, and making sure we remain properly attentive to their needs. Breeding season may be coming, but for now, this group appears mostly focused on standing around together, looking pretty and acting like they know exactly what is going on. Maybe they do or maybe they are just waiting to see who brought their favorite horse treats, Nicker Makers.

Either way, it is sweet watching them grow into themselves. These are the little moments that make farm life feel both fast and slow at the same time. The days are long, the chores are steady and somehow the babies keep turning into yearlings before we are fully ready for it.

08/19/2026

GOAT GOLD AND WEIRDNESS WEDNESDAY

Today’s picture is Hot Mess, also known as Hottie, looking for her lunchtime electrolytes. Hottie has been living up to her name lately because it has been absolutely miserable outside here in NW Georgia. With temperatures pushing toward 100 and humidity making everything feel even worse, summer farm life becomes a lot less about getting things done quickly and a lot more about keeping everyone comfortable.

GOAT GOLD:

In hot weather, water becomes one of the most important chores on the farm. Goats need plenty of clean, fresh water, and they may drink more when temperatures climb. Buckets that were fine in mild weather can get warm, dirty, or low much faster when the heat index starts acting personally offensive.

That is why, during these brutal Georgia summer days, we bring out cold water with electrolytes at lunchtime. It is basically the farm version of a sports drink, except the athletes have four legs and spend most of their day relaxing in a shaded barn with a barn fan. Strike that. They really are not athletes at all. They are professionals at eating, resting and nagging us for cookies.

Hottie is pictured here waiting patiently for the beverage service to begin.

WEIRDNESS:

For Weirdness this week, we are going completely off the farm and into the world of fruit.

Bananas are berries. Strawberries are not. Yes, we think we researched that correctly. Botanically speaking, bananas qualify as berries because of how they develop from a single flower with a single o***y. Strawberries, despite having “berry” right there in the name, are actually considered an aggregate fruit because the fleshy part comes from multiple ovaries.

Somewhere along the way, some scientist in ancient times looked at a banana and said, “Yes, berry". Then he looked at a strawberry and said, “Actually, nope".

Nobody asked for this information here on the farm page, but, well, you're welcome?

So in summary:

- Goats need extra attention during extreme heat.
- Hottie would like the electrolyte service maintained.
- Humans invented sports drinks but goats still prefer the bucket version.
- Bananas are berries, strawberries are not and everyone has learned a little biology today.

08/12/2026

GOAT GOLD AND WEIRDNESS WEDNESDAY

Today’s picture is Hissy Fit standing on fresh pine shavings in the barn, also known around here as “clean sheets". She appears to be looking at the camera with one very important question: Are we ready for the heat coming later this week? With temperatures near 100 and humidity in the 70s and 80s, that is a fair question.

GOAT GOLD:

In hot weather, water becomes one of the most important chores on the farm. Goats need constant access to clean, fresh water, and they may drink more when temperatures climb. Buckets that were fine in mild weather can get warm, dirty, or low much faster when the heat index starts acting personally offensive.

So when summer turns ugly, we spend a lot of time checking water, topping off buckets, cleaning containers, and making sure nobody has decided the perfect place to put hay, feet, or *ahem*, "other things" is directly in the drinking water.

Hissy Fit may be standing on clean pine shavings, but her face says she is more interested in whether the beverage service will be maintained.

WEIRDNESS:

And speaking of surviving the heat, humans are unusually sweaty animals.

That may not sound impressive, but it is one of the things our bodies do extremely well. Sweating helps us cool down as moisture evaporates from our skin, which is useful in hot weather, assuming the air is not already so humid that it feels like trying to cool off inside a sauna.

Nature gave some animals thick hides, some animals cooling ears and humans the ability to become slightly damp and very stinky in public. Which is unsettling, but also fairly accurate.

So this week, while we are checking water buckets, freshening bedding, checking the solar powered barn fans and trying to keep everyone comfortable, Hissy Fit will be monitoring the situation from her clean sheets. She may be small, but she appears to understand the forecast.

So in summary:

- Goats need clean, fresh water, especially during extreme heat.
- Humidity makes hot weather feel even worse.
- Humans are weirdly good at sweating.
- Hissy Fit would like the barn staff to remain focused, hydrated, and available for beverage service.

07/29/2026

GOAT GOLD AND WEIRDNESS WEDNESDAY

Today’s picture is Bobbi in front, with Lady peeking out from behind her. Both of them look curious, which is pretty normal around here.

GOAT GOLD:

Curiosity is one of the ways goats learn about their world. Young goats explore constantly, watching what other goats do, checking out new objects, testing boundaries and figuring out what is safe, interesting, edible or worth avoiding. That curiosity can be sweet. It can also be a little inconvenient when the thing they are learning about is a gate latch, a feed scoop, a zipper or the exact limits of human patience.

Bobbi and Lady both look curious in this picture, which is very normal goat behavior. Around here, “just checking” is usually the first step toward a full investigation.

WEIRDNESS:

Speaking of investigations, this week’s Weirdness takes us to Goldsboro, North Carolina. In 1961, a B-52 carrying two nuclear bombs broke apart over North Carolina and both bombs fell near Goldsboro. One of them reportedly came dangerously close to detonating, with a safety switch preventing what could have been an unimaginable disaster.

That is not a sentence anyone enjoys reading.

Years later, Barney actually lived in Goldsboro for a short time, which means he spent part of his life in a town best known for barbecue, Seymour Johnson Air Force Base and almost becoming a chapter in a history book no one wanted to read.

So in summary:

- Goats are curious little investigators.
- Bobbi and Lady appear to be checking on the situation.
- Goldsboro, North Carolina once had one of the most terrifying “almost” moments in American history.
- Farm life is weird, but at least no one has dropped a nuclear bomb in the goat barn.

07/22/2026

GOAT GOLD AND WEIRDNESS WEDNESDAY

Today’s picture is a throwback to baby Mini back when we were just getting started with goats and had no idea what we were getting ourselves into. Even then, we could tell Mini was going to be special. We did not know she would eventually become our farm mascot, Tonya’s baby, and one of the most spoiled little personalities on the ranch. But looking back at this picture, the signs were probably there.

GOAT GOLD:

Goats have distinct personalities and some stand out early. Some are bold, some are sweet, some are curious and some are dramatic. Every once in a while, one looks out from the middle of the herd and somehow makes it clear she is going to matter around the farm. Mini was one of those goats.

WEIRDNESS:

Ancient Egyptians loved cats so much that when a family cat died, some people shaved off their eyebrows in mourning. Apparently, humans assigning enormous emotional importance to one specific animal is not new. We did not invent this problem. We simply met Mini and joined the cause.

So in summary:

- Some goats are just special from the beginning.
- Ancient Egyptians mourned cats with questionable eyebrow-fashion statements.
- Mini became the farm mascot before any of us fully understood what we were even doing here on the farm.

07/19/2026

SUNDAY SWEETNESS

Meet Boo Boo.

As many of you know, we recently found Bobo abandoned on the side of the road near the farm. Bobo is doing well, but after some thought, we decided it probably was not wise for him to eventually patrol the barn by himself. So naturally, we drove one hour to Resaca to get him a friend. That is not a sentence we expected to write but here we are.

Boo Boo came from a very nice lady who was giving away kittens and we brought him home so Bobo would have a buddy, a backup, and someone to help him make questionable future barn-cat decisions. We are not even cat people. Or at least, we were not cat people. At this point, the evidence is becoming difficult to dispute.

Boo Boo is settling in nicely and will eventually join Bobo in a very important future career here on the farm. Their duties may include mouse patrol, hay inspection, feed room supervision, sunbeam management and silently staring at us from places we did not know cats could reach.

For now, Boo Boo is safe, fed, warm, and officially part of the farm story. Welcome to Old Dallas Mountain Farms, Boo Boo.

Apparently, we are cat people now.

07/08/2026

GOAT GOLD AND WEIRDNESS WEDNESDAY

Today’s picture is Missy and Mischief, standing together and looking very much like they are asking, “What do we do now?”

Missy and Mischief are true sisters out of MOON STATION SS LILY, one of our best-looking does. These two girls were our last kids of the season. They may look innocent here, but this is clearly a two-goat committee deciding whether to behave or start a small (or significant, perhaps) situation.

GOAT GOLD:

Goat kids often form close little buddy pairs, especially with siblings or kids they grow up beside. Having a familiar companion helps them feel more confident as they explore, learn routines, and figure out where they fit in the herd. It is sweet, useful, and occasionally dangerous when both parties agree on a bad idea. Our two girls have been inseparable since birth and we have very high hopes for them.

WEIRDNESS:

Sea otters sometimes hold hands while resting so they do not drift apart. They float on their backs, link up with another otter, and basically form a tiny floating friendship contract.

Which is adorable.

It is also probably safer than leaving Missy and Mischief alone with a plan.

So in summary:

- Sisters tend to stick together.
- Sea otters hold hands so they do not float away.
- Missy and Mischief appear to be deciding whether today calls for teamwork or a misdemeanor.

07/01/2026

GOAT GOLD AND WEIRDNESS WEDNESDAY

Today’s picture is LIL MISCHIEF MANAGED, also known as Mischief, conducting a very serious investigation into an empty bottle.

Mischief is in the process of being weaned, which means her milk schedule has started changing. Apparently, Tonya did not provide what Mischief considered an acceptable amount of milk today, so Mischief found an empty bottle and decided the matter required further review. The bottle said it was empty. Mischief disagreed.

GOAT GOLD:

Goats are natural problem-solvers. They are curious, persistent, and very good at noticing patterns, especially patterns involving gates, feed buckets, people, snacks, and anything they have been told not to touch.

Bottle babies learn routines quickly. They know what the bottle means, who usually brings it, and what should be inside. During weaning, the routine starts changing before their opinion of the routine changes, which can lead to some dramatic misunderstandings.

Mischief has learned the bottle means milk. She has not yet accepted the advanced concept of empty.

So instead of walking away, she decided to keep working the problem. There may be milk left. There may actually be hope. There may be a clerical error. Either way, Mischief would like it noted, for the record, she is not satisfied with the current level of service.

WEIRDNESS:

For Weirdness this week, we are going with kea parrots, which we actually learned about years ago when we visited New Zealand.

Kea parrots are incredibly smart, curious, and destructive. One of our tour guides warned us these birds have been known to pull trim, molding, and even rubber off parked cars (as in TIRE rubber). They are basically feathered problem-solvers with beaks, determination, and no apparent concern for anyone's insurance deductible.

Which brings us back to Mischief.

A kea parrot may look at a parked car and think, “I wonder what happens if I remove part of this.” Mischief looked at an empty bottle and thought, “I wonder what happens if I simply refuse to accept this.”

Different species. Same energy.

So in summary:

- Goats are persistent little problem-solvers.
- Bottle babies learn routines quickly and may object when those routines change.
- Kea parrots can apparently dismantle parts of parked cars because nature enjoys chaos.
- Mischief would like someone from the complaint department to review her account immediately.

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