Nature’s Nook Farm

Nature’s Nook Farm Welcome to every day life on our goat farm in Good Hope, Georgia.

August 1st is the Heritage Kiko Showcase in Carrolton, GA. Here are our outstanding foundation does and buck we will be ...
07/28/2026

August 1st is the Heritage Kiko Showcase in Carrolton, GA. Here are our outstanding foundation does and buck we will be offering. Looking forward to meeting you at the event.

Every once in a while you come across a product worth sharing. I have a few challenging 18” off ground hot-wires that ge...
07/18/2026

Every once in a while you come across a product worth sharing. I have a few challenging 18” off ground hot-wires that get grounded by goats rubbing against the fence wire. I saw an add for these Lockjaw insulators that mount on the fence wires so I gave them a try. To my pleasure, they are very effective keeping the wire fence and hot-wire separated. Anything that reduces a problem and saves me time gets my recommendation. I have no affiliation with this company. Your mileage may cary.

📚 It's Finally Here! 🐐After months of writing, editing, researching, rewriting, and listening to feedback from goat prod...
07/16/2026

📚 It's Finally Here! 🐐

After months of writing, editing, researching, rewriting, and listening to feedback from goat producers across the country, I'm excited to announce the release of the Second Edition of Raising Kiko Goats: Farm-Tested Strategies for Better Goats and Better Farms.

This isn't just an update—it has been expanded from the ground up.

The new edition includes:

🐐 A brand-new chapter on Goatonomics—startup costs, profitability, budgeting, and building a financially successful goat operation.

🐐 A new chapter covering breeder sales, buck tests, auctions, and buying quality breeding stock with confidence.

🐐 An expanded Goat Health Quick Reference Appendix with medication guidelines, treatment frequencies, withdrawal times, and practical herd health information.

🐐 Hundreds of practical tips, real-world lessons, new illustrations, reference tables, and checklists developed from decades of raising goats and learning from both successes and mistakes.

Although the book is written from the perspective of raising New Zealand Kiko goats, nearly everything inside applies to any pasture-based meat goat operation, regardless of breed.

Whether you're buying your first goats, improving your breeding program, or managing a commercial herd, my goal has always been simple—to help producers avoid costly mistakes, raise healthier goats, and build better farms.

To everyone who purchased the first edition, shared ideas, asked questions, and encouraged me to keep improving—thank you. Your feedback helped shape this book.

I hope this second edition earns a permanent place in your barn, becoming coffee-stained, hay-dusted, dog-eared, and filled with notes in the margins.

Thank you for being part of this journey.

Jeffrey Peterson
Nature's Nook Farm
https://books.by/natures-nook-farm

A great morning with a local summer Ag class. Lots of questions by inquisitive kids. Animal crackers kept the goats soci...
06/19/2026

A great morning with a local summer Ag class. Lots of questions by inquisitive kids. Animal crackers kept the goats social and curious.

Great kids from Jr. Ag Dogg Camp at the farm today.
06/15/2026

Great kids from Jr. Ag Dogg Camp at the farm today.

06/05/2026

Our consignments at the Heritage Kiko Showcase, August 1st, Carrolton, GA. All 3 does have large frames with excellent weight gains. Atticus is a large frame buck with superior confirmation and weight gain. All consignments are from top desired pedigrees.

05/25/2026

Planted SunHemp 5 days ago in anticipation of the coming rain and it is already germinating😁 The Sericea Lespedeza, Chicory, and Millet patches I planted last month are appreciating the rain as well.

05/21/2026

Busy day on the farm. Moved Onyx Jukka (230 lbs) and Tara Bear (165 lbs) into a paddock for some special Fall babies! Moved the boys (90 days old) into a weaning pen. Let the crying begin😂. Some excellent growth rate in the bunch with a few in the 60+ range… beef cakes! The girls seem to be enjoying life without the boys😄

05/09/2026

Today I am reviewing the Mountainview Machine Round Bale Feeder. Goats are notorious hay wasters and I am always looking for the holy grail of hay feeders. I was using traditional cattle round bale feeders. The goats would climb on them and waste literally tons of hay. My test cases: A calm pasture with 5 mature bucks and a bustling pasture with 37 mature does and 61 two month old kids. The feeder in the doe pasture rests on concrete with a pallet to keep the hay off the ground and dry. The feeders two sliding sides pass over the pallet with about an inch clearance. A roll of hay would last me 7 days and now I get 9 days and very little hay waste on the ground, a net hay savings of 20-25%. Less hay to buy and less to clean up is a definite win. As with most things, it is not perfect. When about 20% of the hay is left, the bottom of the sliding panels gets stopped by hay bits stacking up at the bottom making it difficult for the goats to reach the hay. The fixed side panel get eaten back quickly, making only the two moving panels for hay access. The fixed sides are easy to fill in with hay by stripping a thin layer off the top of the round bale and sliding it down to fill the sides. This takes literally a minute, simple. When the sliding panel gets stopped by hay at the bottom, it takes a few minutes to slide the panel away and pitch fork/hand pull the bottom hay away so the panel can slide over the pallet and continue compressing… a nuisance but not awful. When the hay is almost gone, I just grab it and put it in my small inside hay feeder, no waste. The feeder in the buck pasture sits on uneven ground and requires adding blocks to the feet to raise the panels above the pallet. Under the lighter load, the wasted hay now is almost nothing, saves at least 30% in hay, and a lot of time/waste in cleanup. The construction appears to be fairly heavy duty and should be durable long term. I give these feeders an overall thumbs-up. They should pay for themselves in about 18 months of hay savings and save me a lot of cleanup time.

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1370 Jim Edmondson Road
Good Hope, GA
30641

Opening Hours

Monday 9am - 6pm
Tuesday 9am - 6pm
Wednesday 9am - 6pm
Thursday 9am - 6pm
Friday 9am - 6pm
Saturday 9am - 1pm

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+17705453210

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