AMK HOLY GOATS

AMK HOLY GOATS Welcome to the farm! ADGA registered dairy goats
Bred with love ❤️ bred to milk 🥛
Fun colored eggs 🪺 and tons of chaos

I don’t have time to make super fancy meals these days so this was our dinner tonight! Nice leg quarters from one of the...
09/24/2026

I don’t have time to make super fancy meals these days so this was our dinner tonight! Nice leg quarters from one of the freedom rangers served with locally sourced potatoes and beans I canned last year 😍 Can you believe the two legs were a little over 2.5 pounds!!!

Three stages of eating a bunny cookie 🐰Oh, Lucy Lucy, the goat version of lucifer himself living in our backyard. Person...
09/22/2026

Three stages of eating a bunny cookie 🐰
Oh, Lucy Lucy, the goat version of lucifer himself living in our backyard. Personal bully to the Nubians, small but mighty girl. Even though I love her easy to milk udder and delicious milk, she is my lowest producer which was how she entered the cull list in the first place. Long story short, I canceled her appointment last minute. I just felt so heavy and bawling my eyes out every time I thought about loading her up. I just couldn’t bring myself to do it. Every animal and final decisions I make come with a sense of heaviness and grief but this one hit harder. I just couldn’t do it and I’m a tough girl 🍪 She is the absolute blue-eyed black queen and a cookie monster. Probably the only pet goat I will keep around. The first night she arrived, she let me milk her without a milking stand. I’m forever grateful for her kindness and willingness to work with me when I was overwhelmed starting out and had no idea how to even milk a goat. This girl has never thrown a tantrum or lifted her hoof on me. I mean, how can you not love her?

I made some raw goat’s milk mozzarella and kefir to start the week with🥛 I’ve only made them once or so before. I love t...
09/22/2026

I made some raw goat’s milk mozzarella and kefir to start the week with🥛 I’ve only made them once or so before. I love the mozzarella. Freshly out of the brine, it reminds me of the Polish mountain cheese. The only thing missing is some cute folk molds to press it into. Sometimes you don’t realize how much you miss something until a particular taste or smell remind you of some beautiful memories you’ve made. It definitely made my heart warm 🤍❤️

I went into the buck pen to grab the water bucket. Chocolate was following me as usual, being very friendly sniffing my ...
09/18/2026

I went into the buck pen to grab the water bucket. Chocolate was following me as usual, being very friendly sniffing my hands and wanting some pets. Then when he started hunching over, I though, poor thing is struggling to poo. Well, he was just watering his beard and luckily, missed watering my jeans by accident. Poor guy got high on the smell of the does from my pants 🤣
Since he was so friendly, I decided to take a peek at his famacha and his teeth. To my shock, he only has 4 front teeth 😱 I never looked into his mouth really so I don’t know when he lost them.

Fun fact, goats have 8 front lower incisors and strong molars in the back of lower and upper jaws to help grind food. They have no upper front teeth. Instead, they have a cartilaginous gum called a dental pad.

Milk milk milk, we are swimming! The chickens are on a milk diet, the cats get a bowl of milk daily, the does get some a...
09/18/2026

Milk milk milk, we are swimming! The chickens are on a milk diet, the cats get a bowl of milk daily, the does get some as a treat, I’m making cheese a few times a week and STILL I don’t see the end. Maybe it’s not a bad thing, though. So I’ve added canning to the list and tried water bath canning milk for the first time the other day. I think I might like it better than pressure canning it! There is a chance I won’t need to buy milk from the store or other farms over the winter 🥛❄️

All the things I have made with the goats milk this summer 🥛🐐
09/13/2026

All the things I have made with the goats milk this summer 🥛🐐

It’s been a while since my hands would cramp so bad in the mornings. Today was another day I woke up with numb fingers a...
09/08/2026

It’s been a while since my hands would cramp so bad in the mornings. Today was another day I woke up with numb fingers and excruciating pain in my wrists that took almost half an hour to go away. Then onto milking. It’s killing my hands. My nubians are probably the easiest for me to milk because of their teat diameter, length and nice orifices that expel the milk quickly. When it comes to my nigerians, I have one girl in particular that absolutely destroys my hands and I always dread milking her. I’m finalizing my decisions and will be making arrangements. I absolutely hate doing this and it makes me so upset but I don’t think I can keep doing it 🤷🏼‍♀️

08/29/2026

I cannot believe it’s been like 5 months since I took this video 🥹 Time flies!

It’s just this year that the predators have seemed to realize we have chickens. I have already lost one of my most fun s...
08/24/2026

It’s just this year that the predators have seemed to realize we have chickens. I have already lost one of my most fun speckled layer due to what I believe was a fox. A few weeks have passed by and I lost a year old beautifully splashed Silverudd’s hen and then her blue hatchmate shortly after. Considered very little signs were found, the fox was a suspect again in their case. I have since culled some of the roosters who didn’t seem to have the best protective instincts. All of my adult layers with the exception of one rooster with unclipped wings and a persistent free-ranged hens have been locked in electric fencing. What I couldn’t keep confined was the small growouts who can squeeze through the fencing still. Well, one of them, a splashed Silverudd’s Blue was attacked by a hawk in the early afteroon today. We looked and confirmed on the cameras. I was home. It happened right in the front yard. I didn’t hear a thing despite being home. They weren’t deep in the woods. They weren’t in the open. They were so close to the house I didn’t click with me the hawks spy on their potential prey from the branches and of course, the chickens with white plumage are easy to spot. The loss this year makes me think about how I want to change things because I cannot afford to feed the local wildlife like this. Months of work and tons of money lost. I’m not even angry anymore, even though I cried in helplessness when I found my girl who laid those insanely speckled eggs missing. I’m just tired. And I don’t take anything for granted anymore. I’m so thankful the three pullets I had hatched from the heavily speckled layer survived the attack. Even though my heart is so happy when they free range, and when I see them enjoy the grass and bugs so much, they will need to remain in their run.

I know many people go by live weight, but to anybody curious how I pick which bird goes first around here, this is how. ...
08/19/2026

I know many people go by live weight, but to anybody curious how I pick which bird goes first around here, this is how. It’s called the “try me” or “mad pecker” method 🐦🐤🐧 If I’m afraid to handle you, it means you are more than ready to hit the freezer

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