12/31/2025
No one prepares you for that first real hard loss on the farm. The one that is the reason why you started it all to begin with.
Tonight we lost our legacy, our faithful goat Tilly. She has been around our farm since 2017 and has given us 7 sets of kids. She was 14 years old and retired after she had her last set of twin does this past January. We often referred to her as grandma Tilly because the last few years she would take care of the other kids.
Tilly taught us a lot over the last 8 years. We learned how to birth kids from her, how to show goats with her. We learned how to milk a goat & make soap. The kids learned how to build a relationship with an animal and how to gain their trust, plus so much more.
The farm won't be the same anymore without her greeting us daily and giving her head pets.