Serenity Hill Ranch

Serenity Hill Ranch We’re a small farm in ND making the most of our small acerage. Raw milk, home grown and harvested meats.

Utilize nose to tail from our livestock-hides, skulls/bones, meats- no waste. A few fiber sheep but a whole lotta bottle lambs and calves raised here

Me using my blender for something… “Why do you sound like you’re dying nowdays?”My blender “Because I’ve made 519571648 ...
05/14/2026

Me using my blender for something… “Why do you sound like you’re dying nowdays?”

My blender “Because I’ve made 519571648 pounds of butter for you and you always fill me too full…”

Me “Nah….You’re fine”

Throw back picture to when I had extra cream to make butter 😞


05/13/2026

They all get friendly once they learn they like butt scratches…

6 lamb pelts out of the tan bath.Handful more will move into the tanning bath.
05/13/2026

6 lamb pelts out of the tan bath.
Handful more will move into the tanning bath.


“The First Boer Goats”They came with a fun suprise.We were still fairly new to goats in general.Didn’t know that one sho...
05/13/2026

“The First Boer Goats”

They came with a fun suprise.
We were still fairly new to goats in general.
Didn’t know that one should go over them with a fine tooth comb scouring for anything “off”.

Not long after they joined us I noticed a little bump on one’s shoulder area.
Reached out to the family they came from and was told it’s ok, nothing to worry about.

But it was something to worry about.

I let the little bump rupture and then I started reading about Caseous Lymphadenitis-CL-and goats.

“It’s ok, every herd has it. Don’t worry.”

But I did worry.
I vac1nated my herd and hoped for the best.

It wasn’t the best.
The boers blew up with it.

One doe, the doe that had that first little tiny bump, she went down.
Hard.
Couldn’t keep weight on.
Couldn’t feed her kids.
Eventually couldn’t get up.
When we euthanized and opened her up-abscesses filled her insides.
I need to dig though old photos for that one of these days…

We fought with CL for several years, even after moving, vac1nating and culling hard. Buying only from tested herds and dosing them while still in a “clean” area.

Just when we thought it was done-another bump would show up.
We’d stall them and send in for testing.
We’d get the positive result and hard cull immediately.

I do believe we had it beat when we sent the last goats to the freezer and market. It had been a very long time since we had seen any signs.

The first boer buck hangs here.
A reminder that not everyone just deals with it, not every herd lets it run and spread.

“An unproductive lawn is a rich man's lawn." It’s estimated that 40-50 million acres in the US are used for lawns, makin...
05/12/2026

“An unproductive lawn is a rich man's lawn."

It’s estimated that 40-50 million acres in the US are used for lawns, making it the largest irrigated crop using 4x the water corn does.

You won’t see any pretty manicured lawn around here.

Instead you see overgrown grass and weeds, electronic fencing, some lambs or goats…

A pretty lawn is good for nothing here.
It’s wasted space, wasted food, wasted ground, wasted time maintaining it…

Our lawn feeds many lambs throughout the summer months, growing them from little fresh weaned babies into 80-100 # lambs that will fill freezers.

We use electronet and rotate them around the yard, they mow and fertilize the ground as they go.

We need less lawns and more grazing or gardens.





After 2 days inside, Smothers is moving back to the barn.She’s been treated for possible pneumonia, she’s been fed well,...
05/12/2026

After 2 days inside, Smothers is moving back to the barn.

She’s been treated for possible pneumonia, she’s been fed well, and now-she goes back to the pen of runts-but only 4 total.

And if she gets smothered again-I can’t help her. 😞



“Waste Wool”Absorbent and rich in all the nutrients your plants need to grow!Wool can absorb up to 30% of it's weight. Y...
05/12/2026

“Waste Wool”

Absorbent and rich in all the nutrients your plants need to grow!

Wool can absorb up to 30% of it's weight. You can use wool at the bottom of plant pots or mixed in with compost, it acts similar to moss. A top layer around your plants in the garden…
You can water less often as your plants will naturally draw moisture out of the wool.

Wool is full of nutrients that it will slowly release into the soil as it decomposes.

Some say it helps deter slugs/snails.

Available-Streeter ND pickup.



Can really tell which way the wind is blowing lately…. 😅
05/12/2026

Can really tell which way the wind is blowing lately…. 😅

05/11/2026

He did NOT acclimate to weaning at all, despite the same group all aging up and transitioning well…. But he got kicked out with the weaned lambs anyway and gets babied once a day for now… 🙄
He’s never been a “well doer” but he also hasn’t died so he’s got that going for him at least…

The grass ain’t ready, but the Iceys headed out for a bit today anyway.The woolies stood at their gate screaming mad….To...
05/11/2026

The grass ain’t ready, but the Iceys headed out for a bit today anyway.
The woolies stood at their gate screaming mad….Tomorrow’s their day…maybe… if I get the electronet up without blowing away 🙄

Calf Pro in the smaller bottle was sold out and it was about $38 just in shipping for the gallon…So I’m switching to a s...
05/11/2026

Calf Pro in the smaller bottle was sold out and it was about $38 just in shipping for the gallon…
So I’m switching to a similar product with similar pricing and doses per container, but powder form, and shipping was less the $10.

Take that shipping company 🖕

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