Roaming Moon Acres

06/07/2026

The beautiful Windemere’s Glenmorangie is our bull calf’s paternal granddam! 🧬⭐️
(Shared with permission)

Windemere Glenmorangie is a dun calf who combines older Canadian genetics with some of the long-standing genetic lines in the US. Glen’s dam is an old cow who was imported from Canada years ago, a granddaughter of the legendary Gusgurlach of Windrush. Morangie herself is moderate in stature with a lot of length, an excellent udder, and plenty of milk to raise fast growing calves. Glen is sired by Windemere Duke, a son of a many-time grand champion female and the powerful Trafalgar Sampson II. We selected this genetic combination in hopes of maintaining the dam’s maternal strength and gaining some of the sire’s stature and power. Glen is a quick learner and has taken easily to the halter breaking process. She’s ready to bring some color and unique genetics into your breeding program. HighlandSale.org - June 22

06/07/2026

New frens enjoying the branch set up in the coop! Little gal on the right with the m**f is named Mustard. My friend’s son named her.

06/06/2026

06/06/2026

We love our Narragansett tom, Beeps and have an order of more poults arriving next week!🫶

I'll link a couple articles in the comments...

For my followers who wanted more about the Narragansett turkey and for those who questioned how the Nebraskan was able to go extinct... the answer requires a look at American history... and no, this is not written with AI. I hate the invention of AI for writing because now when you use any big words everyone assumes it is AI 😅 I digress...

You see, throughout the history of this country, many raised turkeys themselves. Heritage turkeys are good foragers and reproduce naturally. The Narragansett variety some say is linked to the pilgrims (Narragansett, Rhode Island is a little ways south of Plymouth Rock). But after WW2 things changed. People stopped raising their own livestock. The Broad Breasted White turkey became the commercial defacto and fewer and fewer people kept heritage turkeys at all...

Let's note, the Livestock Conservancy came to being in 1977 a couple months before Star Wars was released. As they continued their mission, they did their first survey of heritage turkeys in 1997. By that point, the Nebraskan was gone. Most heritage turkeys were hanging on by a thread. The Narragansett in a particular is believed to have had just 10 individuals remaining. To their credit, heritage turkey numbers certainly recovered. I can't say for sure what the current number is, but it was ~2,000 in 2016, so probably close to that, maybe more.

So, those that don't appreciate heritage turkeys with roots that extend throughout American history up until modern times... well this post isn't for you... but those that get it, we invite you to follow our page and see and learn more about these magnificent birds!

Did you know we had gotten down to just ~1500 heritage turkeys in the 1990's and were so close to losing all of these birds?

06/03/2026

4 days of much needed rain and today the sun came out! Grow baby, grow!

06/02/2026

Mother Nature sure does have a sense of humor! 🤣
She pulled up and said “Hey I heard you guys were complaining about a drought?” and rained on us for 4 days straight. 💙🌧️💧
Now hopefully the seeds I planted in our pastures will grow!🤞🌱🌾

05/27/2026

Post halter training smoochies!😘
Big Sky Acres

05/24/2026

That cake tho 🍑🔊
*Plays “All About That Bass” by Meghan Trainor*
(Facebook won’t let me add it🙄)
Big Sky Acres
📸 Erin K Photography

05/19/2026

Rain!🌦️
We got a good steady rain yesterday. I woke up to water drops on the grass and alfalfa leaves.😊 It has been so dry here and even when the area does get rain it seems we have a hole in the radar that it misses.😞

05/11/2026

Congrats Goat Forest Farm on a great show weekend!!🌟💫
Very excited as our Carroll Moon’s dam is Hyalite MQ Fleur Noir!🖤