Basalt & Bramble

05/11/2026

05/11/2026

Mothers, adopted, surrogate and grand :)

05/01/2026

These two are surplus to requirements and are great protectors but we don’t have enough hens these days. Any interest please message

04/22/2026

The dangers of sitting down in the goat area during kidding season. They are all little sharks!

04/03/2026

Hope to see you all there…s

03/21/2026

This morning was a stressful one for me. Ultimately everything worked out well but we haven’t had a goat go over 2 hours between kids before. Gracie easily delivered a big buck kid at 06:15 this morning - I didn’t even get to have my coffee! We knew there was another thanks to the ultrasound. Gracie and I got him cleaned up and he was up and nursing quickly. The next 2 hours was spent with Gracie lying down ever so often, pushing once or twice and getting up again. I went in after 90 min and there were feet way deep inside - couldn’t feel the head at all so jiggled and pushed back a little. Figured the head was back and everything was too far for me to reach - not even in the canal. Called our amazing vet Rogers Veterinary Service and after explaining the situation Keelan was going to head on over.
Well something I did must have stimulated something because of course as soon as I got off the phone and Gracie lay down again a second amniotic sac bubble appeared with two pushes…After a few more ups and downs I was able to call Keelan to send him back home for breakfast. Smaller, second kid was born still fully en caul. After some furious cleaning and lots of fluid removal she was pronounced alive and a gorgeous dark brown little doe.
Then things got slightly more stressful, cleaned up and checked over she was alert but not enthusiastic. At this point her brother had gulped down more colostrum than could be considered his ‘share’ and was basically monopolizing mom’s attention and getting in the way. Little girl was alert but completely failing to find the teat despite Nathan and I taking it in turns to help whilst the other body checked her brother. Gracie was actually looking worried herself and at some point I milked out three ounces of colostrum into a bottle just in case. I tried to feed little girl but the screaming she managed at that point was the most energetic she had been so, we resorted to trying to be patient, waking her up and guiding her in the right direction whenever she looked like she wanted to give up.
Two and a half hours later she finally got the hang of this udder thing and I really needed my coffee.
My grandmother had an oft repeated phrase; “Patience is a virtue and a virtue is a grace”. I think Basalt and Bramble Gracie’s Patience is going to be fine! This is Gracie’s second kidding and first daughter 😉
Her brother is kinda cute too…and already rotund with cute knee socks. Patience will stay, we already have 3 other bucks this year…
Every year, every kidding, it’s something new….

03/15/2026

Meet Cabernet (darker legs, windmill ears, born 11:40 pm on the 14th, 6.9 lb as of lunch time today) and Zinfandel (slightly lighter in color, floppy right ear, born 00:35 am on the 15th, 6 lb at 11 hours old).
Sire is CPRC Peloso (aka Pinot), grandsire is CPRC Primo (aka Noir).
Doe is BNB Indigo, judging by her udder they won’t starve! This is her second kidding and she is a dedicated mama. Hoping to get her back out to the herd soon as Grandma Rosie seems a little disappointed to not have her daughter nearby.
Did I mention that all kids from this year are boys…..need a buck? If not pretty soon my whole herd will be wethers.

03/14/2026

It might actually be spring - soon….

03/13/2026

Pretty certain we need to pop Indigo back in the kidding stall within a couple hours (we let her out during the day and just monitor) due date Sunday 15th, probably a singleton.

02/10/2026

A break from combing girls to some necessary buck care. Our grey buck CPRC Peloso (Pinot) isn’t particularly patient on the stand so he will need to be back again in a week or two. Still we got a full gallon bag of fiber and his hooves trimmed easily. Unfortunately, our sweet CPRC Primo (Noir) had some symptoms of a probably yeast infection on his skin and we decided to give him a quick shampoo and blow dry. He is so well behaved and his patience is so appreciated - lots of peanuts for my boy. Noir is the father or grandfather of most of our does so we should really find him a new herd but he has such a lovely temperament it is hard to part with him. Pinot’s won junior buck fiber competition as well and is father to our champion wether at OFFF last year. Both bucks are inseparable and will be up for discussion after I use them one last time this fall. Both have won State and OFFF championships, easy to handle, good fiber with NZ genetics and just turned 4 years old.

12/09/2025

We had our mentor Julie ultrasound 4 more does today. One Nubian and 3 Cashmere. All were successfully bred with due dates between March 15 and 19th. Since we only have 2 kidding stalls the fact that 2 of them were going to their new homes as “bred” it was very convenient. Of all the does the best ultrasound video was one of those girls who left for their new home today. In the video you can hopefully see 2 separate embryos who are super active at around 47 days gestational age. This is the second pregnancy for all these does. Two more does to test at the end of the month.