Our New Goat Babies!!

I think it was last summer that we originally started talking about getting a real building on our land to have laying hens again.

Not long after that, Grant told me I could have one of the buildings in his yard!

For my birthday in September, the guys told me they would pay the cost to have David move the building from Grant’s place to our place.

It wasn’t long after the blessing of that news that I started talking about getting some small goats to go with our laying hens.

At the very beginning of May my new building arrived on a beautiful but freezing cold morning!!


What fun it was for us to see what David does for a living!

He also let the boys drive the mule and help set the building in our yard!


What a sweet gift this is to me!!

Thank you boys!!!


It was about a week after the building was set that we headed to Ontario to our friend’s farm to meet our new goat babies!

To say that Eliza was excited is such an understatement!!

I was excited too.

It was such a beautiful day to be in such a beautiful place!

Let me introduce you to Dottie, Poppy, and Patches – in that order.


Originally we were just getting two girl goats, but when I saw Patches and heard that he would be banded (so he can’t have babies) and dehorned, I just COULD NOT leave him there!

He is adorable!!!

We also got to see the rest of the farm and some brand new puppies – thank goodness they were not for sale!


After we got home that day, this is what Eliza’s doodling looked like –

She really has them drawn exactly as they are!!


Our sweet little building needs a full renovation – thanks to some rot.

But it will be AMAZING once my guys are finished with it!

See that little red shed in this next photo?

That’s what it should look like when we are done!


On one of Blake and my date nights we started looking at things to make the inside of the building what we will need it to be.

It was a fun date night!

I might of bought a new mug too – completely NOT needed!

We also bought a motion sensor light to put on the outside of the building.

These signs cracked us up, but stayed at the store, ha, ha!


I got four books from the library to refresh our knowledge about goats!

I am so glad I did!

We are so excited to have this opportunity for our youngest children!


Lane, Tate and Eliza got to have a date night with Blake and I recently, and we stopped at a Pet store.

Eliza wanted a clicker and treat bag to work on training Ruby and eventually our goats.

SO cute!

We also got collars for the goats.


This past weekend, there was a lot of progress made on our little building!!

My guys are SO talented with carpentry, as they both used to build sheds for a living.

I just LOVE seeing it all come together!!!


We cannot pick up our new babies until the first weekend in June because Patches is still too little.

Hopefully our building and fencing will be ready by then and we can bring our babies home!!

We also have a few laying hens coming with Kayla’s order she placed for their farm, and I have a friend who is giving us a few of theirs.

I still need to find some more – I will have to work on that!

Twin Oaks, you will look good with animals on your land!!

So glad we can give our younger children these opportunities even though we are not on the farm anymore!

Welcome to our family Dottie, Poppy and Patches!!

2 comments

  1. Megan B says:

    Kay told me about your new building and animals so I had to come check it out! I’m so excited for you! We just got our first chickens this month and it makes our place feel so much more like home! I can’t wait to see your project all finished up! <3

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