Thomas Heritage Farm

08/31/2021

This is amazing news!

08/01/2021

Been awhile since I posted so figured I share some pics of the “babies” after their hoof trimmings 🥰

04/12/2021

Deciding when to wean baby goats can be challenging, but if you know what to look for, you can set your goats up for a healthy life.

04/06/2021

Good morning from Cleo and Calliope 🥰 with a bonus shot of Sammy sticking his tongue out

03/29/2021

Introducing Cleo and Calliope! Aren’t they just gorgeous?!

03/03/2021

These sweet boys are growing up 🥰

03/02/2021

Always have a f***l run before deworming your animals.

Although there may be a peri-parturient rise in f***l egg counts, that does not mean a doe needs to be dewormed. Current research says you should only deworm goats that are being negatively affected by their worm load, such as low FAMACHA score, weight loss, diarrhea, and/or bottle jaw. Why? Because the more you use a dewormer, the faster the worms will become resistant to it. We need to save our dewormers for when they are really needed -- or they won't work when we really need them.

02/23/2021

Anybody else? 😅

02/21/2021

Who knows whether some sellers are just completely clueless or just don't care whether their kids live or die, but there are far too many kids that get sold as so-called "bottle babies" when they have never had a bottle in their lives! They get taken from mom and handed to a new goat owner who has no idea how challenging it is going to be to get that kid started on a bottle! Nor do they realize that it could die from low blood sugar and dehydration if they can't get enough milk into it.

Equally bad are those sellers who sell a 3-week-old kid and say that it doesn't need milk any longer because it's eating! Kids need milk for a minimum of two months, regardless of how much they are eating.

If a seller says a kid is bottle-fed, ask them to show you how to give the kid a bottle before you take it home. The kid should grab the ni**le and suck down the milk with no assistance. That's how a bottle-fed kid acts. If it needs help, it is either new to the bottle of has something wrong with it.

Here is more info on bottle feeding baby goats ... https://thriftyhomesteader.com/bottle-feeding-goat-kids/

01/10/2021

Meet the newest members of our farm! I'm so in love with these two handsome boys!