Located in Big Spring, TX
It all started with chickens.... I had heard that chickens were the gateway animal. It's true! We lived in town, but the local feed store had chickens that we took our grand daughter to see. Well, she really wanted some baby chicks. You know how it is with grandkids. Well, we ordered them online because the feed store quit selling them by the time we had made the decision. We only wanted about 6. Well, the shipping was outrageous, and was the same for 6 chicks or 24. So, we bought 24. About 1/2 of them were roosters, so we got rid of them. Then I started ordering eggs and incubating them. In 2012, after living in the same house in the city for 22 years, we found a place with 12 acres north of Big Spring.
My husband, Doug, and I moved from our much-loved home to a place that needed a lot of work. We had no idea what God had planned for our lives at that time. We started cultivating the earth, planted a bountiful garden, had laying hens, but we wanted to do so much more. We worked on a lot of areas that had been neglected for years and started trying to make this a place we'd love as much as our old home.
Upon moving here, my mom informed me we HAD to have a name for the place. Well, this was right after Easter, and I had put on some bunny ears and my nephew jokingly called me aunt Bunny and called Doug uncle Duck, so the place HAD to be named Duck and Bunny's place.
Out of the blue, our lives changed. in March 2015, our neighbors decided they were going to have to get rid of their goats, and the rest is history. I have fallen in love over and over with our goats and their babies. We primarily have Registered Nigerian Dwarf goats from very good lines. We do have one Pygmy doe. We had one ram lamb that we bottle fed, but he became aggressive with one of the grand daughters and we took him on a one-way trip to the butcher. When I have goats in milk, I milk them in the morning and we enjoy their milk to drink and to make soaps. The goats have a nice playground area, which they all enjoy. They are such a joy, and it's funny to see what kind of trouble they can get themselves into. I love them and care for them like I cared for my own children. We spend a lot of time with our goats, so they are very personable and aren't afraid of people. Our herd name is We R Gloating. Our Nigerian Dwarfs are all AGS registered, and many are double registered with AGS and ADGA. I have plans to do linear appraisal and milk testing in the future.
We test our herd yearly for CAE, CL, and Johne's disease. We currently have a clean herd with testing in 2018, 2019, and 2020.
I have recently done testing with Langston University and acquired the status of Quality Producer for Nigerian Dwarf dairy goats.
I love this life. I'm busy all the time, but I love what I do. My husband, daughter, and grand daughter help out when they can, and love every bit (well almost every bit) of it. God has blessed us over and over.
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My husband, Doug, and I moved from our much-loved home to a place that needed a lot of work. We had no idea what God had planned for our lives at that time. We started cultivating the earth, planted a bountiful garden, had laying hens, but we wanted to do so much more. We worked on a lot of areas that had been neglected for years and started trying to make this a place we'd love as much as our old home.
Upon moving here, my mom informed me we HAD to have a name for the place. Well, this was right after Easter, and I had put on some bunny ears and my nephew jokingly called me aunt Bunny and called Doug uncle Duck, so the place HAD to be named Duck and Bunny's place.
Out of the blue, our lives changed. in March 2015, our neighbors decided they were going to have to get rid of their goats, and the rest is history. I have fallen in love over and over with our goats and their babies. We primarily have Registered Nigerian Dwarf goats from very good lines. We do have one Pygmy doe. We had one ram lamb that we bottle fed, but he became aggressive with one of the grand daughters and we took him on a one-way trip to the butcher. When I have goats in milk, I milk them in the morning and we enjoy their milk to drink and to make soaps. The goats have a nice playground area, which they all enjoy. They are such a joy, and it's funny to see what kind of trouble they can get themselves into. I love them and care for them like I cared for my own children. We spend a lot of time with our goats, so they are very personable and aren't afraid of people. Our herd name is We R Gloating. Our Nigerian Dwarfs are all AGS registered, and many are double registered with AGS and ADGA. I have plans to do linear appraisal and milk testing in the future.
We test our herd yearly for CAE, CL, and Johne's disease. We currently have a clean herd with testing in 2018, 2019, and 2020.
I have recently done testing with Langston University and acquired the status of Quality Producer for Nigerian Dwarf dairy goats.
I love this life. I'm busy all the time, but I love what I do. My husband, daughter, and grand daughter help out when they can, and love every bit (well almost every bit) of it. God has blessed us over and over.
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