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We are a full-time (usually more than full time) ranch. We put in many hours each day feeding, maintaining, cleaning, modifying and improving our ranch. From February to July we are hand milking several goats (last year was 26), bottle feeding every baby goat (last year we had 54) as often as 3 or 4 times per day and assisting will all of the does that are kidding. If we are caught up on everything (which NEVER happens), we move on to vaccinations, deworming, hoof trimming, disbudding, castrating, tattooing, grooming and other maintainance of 50-100 goats, 7 dogs, 7 cats, 4 horses, 1 pony, 3 pigs, a flock of pigeons, 1 rabbit and roughly 200-300 assorted poultry. When all those things are done, we have a family,a house, two small personal buisinesses to take care of as well. Ethan works a full time job aside from the work he contributes on the farm. We appreciate and are flattered by people's requests to visit our farm and ask us questions. We try to accomodate these requests one weekend per month. We do not give tours "inside" our Bio-Secure poultry yard nor do we allow people to go in the goat pens. These precautions or to protect our animals and therefore insure animals people purchase from us are not exposed to outside diseases. We can take people around the outer perimiters of the poultry yard and outside of all other animal yards. We are very happy to answer any questions through email or while you are visiting. Do to our very limited time, farm tours or visits (even to pick up animals) need to be limited to 30 minutes or one hour. If you would like to take a farm tour, please email get available days/ times and/ or schedule an appointment. Our driveway is 1/2 mile long and currently requires a high clearance vehicle to get to our house (4 x 4 should not be necessary). |