Long Creek Farm

It has really started to feel like fall here in northeast OK. Most of our trees are either changing color or have lost their leaves, and the weather has been mostly in the 60's during the day. One of our pear trees turning color. Goats We have now stopped moving the goats in the pasture, they will mostly be staying in their barnyard pen for the rest of the winter, but we will be moving them on the rye we are growing once it gets tall enough. We have also stopped milking for t

We have decided to sort our goat herd into three main groups to try to increase our profit this year. Good milkers Melody and Fiona We recently added two Nigerians to our heard from Black Hoof Farm, Melody and Fiona. Fiona is a 75% Nigerian dwarf 25% Oberhasli doeling, She is supposed to be an excellent milker. Melody is hopefully pregnant (the kids' father would be the buck pictured below, Southern Grace LeRoy), she has already been milked so they know she is a good milker

Pretty soon we are going to stop moving the goats for the winter. Right now, we are still moving them a little bit in a field we had planted earlier in the fall, but soon they will have to stay in their winter home, so they will need some things to play and climb on. Shadow and Ava resting on repurposed stairs. We are having to put the hay in places other than in their feeder in the barn because the more dominant goats will not let the other goats in the barn to eat the hay (