PGCF What's New

Well, spring brought a whole new crop of babies. Certainly, this is a very exciting time of the year. We have kept several goat kids to intigrate into our herd and have sold others to many great folks expanding or beginning to raise fainting goats. I am pleased when learning of people getting to know their new goats and that they are much more than just a goat that stiffens & falls over. It is also nice to watch our herd transform and mold more into what we want to be the PGCF staple - muscular, colorful, personable, healthy goats.

Also have started with new chicks in a continual effort to crossbread and create a meaty, but healthy bird. Hopefully, in a couple years will have something to report. Our ducks hatched out one (and only one duckling) on their own. He identifies more with the chickens since he's been raised with them. We're getting ready to weed down the duck flock to just a few. They do not have much function for us right now.

The Anatolian pups were born March 12 and have all been replaced or reserved for new homes. We are keeping two out of the group and hope they will be strong LGDs. They've been raised with the goats and are currently being exposed to the chicks. Once these two are working more later in the year we will be letting go of our adult male Ash.

The weather has been good to us. There was a late frost this year that hurt crops for a lot of folks, but other than this rain has been pretty consistent. It maybe annoying when it gets muddy or to be considerned about more parasites for the animals, but we've learned to be thankful for any rain that we get. Everything is greening up nicely & the garden is going nuts.

Hopefully we won't get into the summer heat too soon. All is well and glad for the Spring - a time of birth and ressurection.

Goats are being bred now for the Fall kidding season. We don't anticipate breeding Anatolians anytime soon. At this point only a couple bucklings still available.

No reports of swine, avian, or faintin' flu here.

Justin