Wildflower Acres Farm

Wildflower Acres Farm Performance Kiko goats. Real farm life. Located in North Florida.

Follow along as we raise registered 100% New Zealand and Purebred Kiko goats, improve our pastures, build our farm, and share the everyday adventures behind Wildflower Acres Farm.

PRF Country Bumpkin apparently picked up a hitchhiker during morning grazing. 😂
08/25/2026

PRF Country Bumpkin apparently picked up a hitchhiker during morning grazing. 😂

08/16/2026

SRT Hammer's Casanova checking in to let me know it's time for breeding season to be over, his job here is done, and he believes his compensation package should include sweet treats. 😂

Part 4: The Learning CurveThere are some things you can learn about raising goats from a book. And then there are the th...
08/15/2026

Part 4: The Learning Curve

There are some things you can learn about raising goats from a book. And then there are the things you apparently have to learn the hard way.

When we brought those first four goats home, we had several books' worth of knowledge, and an impressive ability to turn almost anything into an emergency.

What we didn't have was experience.

We put collars on our goats. We called the vet out for a scraped hock. We also named every kid born on the farm—which seemed like a wonderful idea right up until some of those adorable little bucklings had to go to the livestock market.

And then there was the pregnant doe. We thought two were pregnant. Only one actually was. I watched hundreds of kidding videos. Every change meant "THIS IS IT." I eventually became so convinced that it was “time” that Matt and I camped in the pasture one night.

And she didn't kid for another ten days.

Six years later, things look a lot different around here. I handle nearly all of our herd health issues myself, but more importantly, I've learned when to intervene and when to simply watch and wait.

That's probably one of the biggest differences between then and now. When you're brand new to livestock, the hard part isn't caring enough. It's learning what actually deserves your concern. Back then, every scrape warranted a vet call and every pregnant doe looked like she was about to kid. Today, I can walk through the pasture and usually know pretty quickly when something isn't right.

Some of that came from books. Most of it came from six years and well over 10,000 hours spent watching goats, managing their health, making mistakes, asking questions, and learning from experience.

Experience eventually taught us that good livestock management isn't always about doing more. A lot of the time, it's knowing when to do nothing at all.

Somewhere along the way, we stopped simply owning goats and started building a herd.

(More on that next time...)

08/11/2026

Apparently Sophie has discovered television. 😂

More specifically, she has discovered Sean The Sheepman and his border collies herding sheep — and she is OBSESSED.

She watches every move they make, completely locked in. And when the dogs disappeared off the screen?

She went behind the TV looking for them. 😂😂

I’m not sure she understands how television works yet, but she definitely understands that those dogs have a job she’d like to investigate. Considering she lives on a goat farm, I’m a little concerned she’s about to start demanding a job.

08/10/2026

Why do goats eat tree bark? 🌳🐐

Goats are browsers, not just grazers. Their natural diet includes grass, weeds, vines, leaves, twigs and woody plants. When they strip bark, they may also be eating the softer cambium layer underneath, which contains moisture and nutrients. Woody browse can also provide tannins and other natural plant compounds, some of which may have beneficial effects on digestion and parasite resilience.

Occasional bark eating doesn’t necessarily mean a goat is hungry or deficient—it’s often simply normal browsing behavior. It’s one reason we value diverse pasture rather than fields made up of grass alone.

08/09/2026

Michelangelo is making sure he's covered all his ladies during breeding season. I'm fairly certain his job is done at this point, but we will leave him in a few more weeks to make sure all his does have been bred.

08/08/2026

This is why we can't have nice things, Michelangelo.

This is SRT Hammer's Casanova and HCM Michelangelo's Truly, one of our pairings for the 2026 breeding season.With every ...
08/07/2026

This is SRT Hammer's Casanova and HCM Michelangelo's Truly, one of our pairings for the 2026 breeding season.

With every pairing, we’re looking at the strengths of both animals and thinking about what we hope to produce in the next generation — growth, structure, maternal ability, parasite resilience, and the ability to perform in a forage-based, low-input program.

Casanova has continued to impress us with his growth and development, and Truly brings qualities we want to carry forward in our herd. We’re excited to see what these two produce.

Meet SweetBe. ❤️ Every herd has a queen, and this is ours.SweetBe is one of the foundation does of our herd and truly li...
08/06/2026

Meet SweetBe. ❤️ Every herd has a queen, and this is ours.

SweetBe is one of the foundation does of our herd and truly lives up to her name. She's incredibly gentle, an exceptional mother, and year after year she raises heavy, healthy kids.

She's the kind of doe every producer hopes for—the kind that breeds back, raises great kids, and quietly goes back to work year after year.

When the day comes that she's ready to retire, she's already earned the right to spend the rest of her life here at Wildflower Acres.

📖 Part 3: Bringing Home Our First Goats(If you're just joining us, Part 1 is pinned at the top of our page.)We made pla...
08/02/2026

📖 Part 3: Bringing Home Our First Goats

(If you're just joining us, Part 1 is pinned at the top of our page.)

We made plans to drive up to Sunny Gale Farms in Greenville, FL. We loaded the truck with dog crates and made the four-hour drive. I was beyond excited. I had spent hours reading everything I could about goat care, and I felt decently prepared. George and Gale met us and walked us to their barn where our goats were held. Two were believed to be pregnant, and the other two were just a few months old. While George talked with Matt, Gale walked me around the barn, sharing tips and answering all of my questions. By the time we finished, I actually believed I could do this.

They took us inside to complete the paperwork and walk us through the basics of caring for goats. Looking back, they were incredibly generous with their time. They had no way of knowing just how much their advice would shape the way we manage our herd today.

During our time inside, George explained why he didn’t sell us his most valuable goats. He said, “It’s just as easy to kill a $1,000 goat as it is a $300 goat.” I thought, “Oh my God, we might kill them.” That single sentence changed the way I approached goat ownership. From that point on, I spent every spare minute learning everything I could.

Once our "Come to Jesus meeting about goats" was over, we headed back to the barn to load them up. George looked at Matt and said,

"They're yours now. You load them."

The two older does weighed well over 100 pounds, and for the first time it really hit us...

These were our goats now.

We finally got everyone loaded, thanked George and Gale, and started the four-hour drive home. As we pulled away, Matt looked over at me and quietly said, "I'm more nervous than the day Blake was born." That caught me completely off guard. Matt isn't someone who gets rattled easily. In almost 20 years together, I've rarely seen him genuinely nervous. I, on the other hand, was still riding the excitement of finally owning goats.

Looking back...

He was the smart one.

(More on that next time...)

📖 Missed the beginning? Part 1 is pinned at the top of our page.

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Lee, FL
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