Finicky Farm

08/22/2026

Breeding season is here 🐐❤️🐐

After our unplanned December/January kidding and our disastrous May kidding we’ve decided to stick with a winter kidding season. We should see kids start to arrive around January 16th!

We think this will work really well with the shift to virtual fence collars and our expanding custom goat grazing operation. By the time the grazing season is in full swing and we want the does to be on grazing jobs, their kids will be weaned. Which means we won’t have to deal with kids wandering away into areas they shouldn’t in exclusive virtual pastures, especially when grazing residential areas!

I plan to write up a longer article/post about our first full season using virtual fence later this fall. It’ll include all the wins, losses and lessons learned. I’m sure those lessons will expand next year but overall we are extremely happy about switching to Nofence | Virtual fencing system

08/05/2026

July🌞

Long hot days, smoky days, rainy days(thank goodness), stressful days, relaxing days, and it all went by way too fast.

We started the month off with weaning lambs and then just a couple weeks later we had to rapidly move those lambs away from deathly nitrate heavy pastures. But the lambs are doing well now and I’m very pleased with how they’re looking. The ewes have just been enjoying lamb free life munching through solar arrays.

The goats worked on a few different grazing jobs and did a fantastic job of course. The Nofence collars have made a huge difference in what projects we can do with them and it’s exciting to see that side of things grow more. They have a busy August and September of grazing jobs lined up as well!

The dogs have been steadfastly protecting their herds/flocks all summer. July 4th marked Mayuk’s 1 year anniversary of joining us, and June was Circe’s. Feels like it’s been much longer than that and at the same time feels like barely any time. Both are integral parts of the lgd pack and absolute heart stealers.

August will bring a much needed short family vacation for the farm crew, prep for breeding season in September, and lots of driving as the flocks head back out east!

06/16/2026

05/19/2026

These last few hot sunny days make us all the more grateful to be solar grazing and able to provide our sheep with ample shade!

05/12/2026

April🌱🌱🌱

April concluded lambing season and jumped us right into the grazing season. We staggered the start to the grazing season over 2 weeks.
The small group of rams moved out first, then the main group of ewes who lambed in March, then almost a week later the yearling ewes and their lambs went out. Then the goats moved out to pasture and began learning how to navigate .
We’re settling in to the grazing routine of constantly moving and excited for more kids to arrive throughout May and then potentially more lambs in June as well! 🌱🌞