Hills and Valleys Farm

10/02/2026

Moving the new buck and some lady friends to new pasture. Caleb’s papaw buddy would be so proud of his ingenuity!

09/22/2026

We took a bite off and got a tub and alley for the goats. What started as needing something to run our feeder kids through to weigh them kinda turned into this. Should make things so much easier to run through. definitely got us hooked up.

09/11/2026

Welcome to the world little one!

One of the benefits of our Black Herefords is they bag up and just lay down and have a calf when you least expected it. This is a first time heifer that did NOT look like she’d calve yesterday evening. But woke up this morning and saw her by herself with this little heifer calf.

09/05/2026

Our last breeding age buck for sale has left our farm. He is headed to Mansfield Missouri to do some crossing with Savanna does. Thank you for your interest and business.

08/30/2026

Well…would you look at this?! Last Saturday we had a surprise arrival on the farm. This little lady arrived two weeks early. She is tiny, but mighty and is keeping up with mom just fine.

08/24/2026

This exactly how we raise our goats. They are extremely parasite resistant because of the breeding and culling we have done. We have learned which breeds are hardiest and avoid those that aren’t. The vast majority of our goats have been born and raised on our farm out of stock that has needed minimal deworming. Your animals should work for you, you shouldn’t have to constantly fight to keep them alive.

Before modern dewormers...

Farmers still raised goats.

Some goats lived.

Some didn't.

The survivors became tomorrow's breeding stock.

Then chemical dewormers arrived.

Millions of goats were saved.

That was a wonderful thing.

But over time...

Many of us also stopped letting nature tell us which animals were naturally resistant.

Today we're dealing with two kinds of resistance.

Goats that need to become more resistant...
..and worms that already have.

Maybe the future isn't about finding a stronger dewormer.

Maybe it's about raising stronger goats again.

06/05/2026

We put the bull in this week as clean up on the cows we AI’d and to breed our son’s longhorn.

06/03/2026

New life on the farm isn’t just the livestock.

05/27/2026

M15F has been a great start to our breeding program. We have been super pleased with his calves so far. With our small herd, we finally got ourselves organized to ai this year. But that doesn’t take away from the quality of a bull he is. Definitely happy to have him in our arsenal as our clean up bull. Don’t forget to follow us and give us a share.

05/23/2026

Sometimes moving goats to a new pasture involves some free time in the yard. I was really hoping one of the babies would try out the trampoline, but they decided against it.