June 12, 2026 — Today’s Snapshot

🥛 2 gallons + 3 cups raw goat milk this morning
🍼 Darling is weaning off the bottle next week (but Banana has about 4 more weeks!)
🐐 Padme’s milk bag is coming in. Kid(s) should be here next week!
🐏 Hezekiah cuddles
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Tonight is pizza and movie date night, so I’ll catch you next time!

April 4, 2026 — Walking in Newness of Life

Jeff wrote a beautiful new post for the Shepherd’s Life, reflecting on Easter, our Good Shepherd, and little ol’ Hezekiah.

March 29, 2026 — Our Little Blessing

Meet Hezekiah (Hezzy)—our little Nugget! We chose this name because it means ‘God strengthens,’ a constant reminder of how far he has come and who made him whole.

And so the adventure begins. Follow along on the Farm Feed to see how Hezekiah is doing today.

March 28, 2026 — The Little Nugget That Could 🐑

We landed on calling our little lamb “Nugget” for now. I think he likes it!

He is such a joyful little guy. He loves our attention and I bet he understands how gentle we are with him and appreciates it.

He is so strong! We’ve been bottle feeding him raw goats milk, and he had been standing on his own and even taking some uncertain steps by mid morning so we were hopeful! But when he would fall, he still had trouble getting back up.

So we spent the day working with him; feeding him, standing him back up, and running paces in front of him to encourage exercise. We even handled the “dirty work” of his digestive health that his momma normally would. By later in the afternoon, he was actually starting to try to run (albeit wobbly) 🥹

Around 8pm we decided that since he’s looking stronger and more able to get about on his own, we were going to try to put him with momma one last time. So we got Hana into a private pen with her other ram lamb that she’s been raising since yesterday, and brought little Nugget in as well. She was very confused (I’m sure because now he smelled more like Jeff and I and some baby goats than like her).

After about 15 minutes of her running from him and knocking him down, we were able to hold her still long enough for him to get some good swigs of momma’s milk. He was a happy guy! But ultimately, seeing how he would fall and take a while to get up, and that she clearly wanted nothing to do with him, we decided to call it.

Nugget would be our first little bottle lamb and WE would be his momma and daddy!

March 27, 2026 — All Heart, No Quit

Our last ewe had twin lambs today, but one of the lambs had some issues with his back legs and could not stand up.

I came home for a couple hours to help Jeff and when I saw the little guy my heart just broke 💔

He was a perfect little baby, trying his hardest to reach his momma using only the strength of his front legs while his back legs trailed behind.

We took some time with him to get him stood up to see if his strength would build, and he would stand for a few seconds, wobble, then fall down again.

It was devastating but we were not going to give up on him.

We made an executive decision that it was safer for him to be in the bottle baby pen rather than with his momma and the other mommas (for fear of him being trampled by accident while he’s crawling around on the floor or resting from over exertion).

His first day was a hard one, but he is not alone, we milked his (crazy) momma to get a bottle full of her colostrum for him, and he got lots of cuddles and love from Jeff and I.