Broken Top Farm

12/29/2024

Sure, it sucks I just got done shoveling the porch, deck, paddock, and path to the bucks… BUT LOOK 😍 Guess getting gas for the snowblower can wait ❄️🌲⛄️

Zippy loves it too 😍 I have had struggles seeing her bred on US, but I know she is solely on her friendly demeanor 😉

12/29/2024

I’ve never been more disturbed by AI 😅😂

Please don't leave without giving some love❤️❤️
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12/27/2024

How do I do it all?

Well, here's one cheat in my pocket!

Leases.

They're scary, require trust, and often include some hard but honest conversations.

I am very particular about where my animals may go on lease, but this year I have the most leases I have ever done and emphasized leasing out some of my best animals in order to focus on where I can cut at home.

So consider this a lease shout out to the 2024-2025 lessees of Broken Top goats!

-Flying Feets Farm (Broken Top IU Minnie Mouse)
-Twin Arrows Farm (Pleasant Dreams MTBibidiBobidi 2*M VVEV87 & Broken Top IU King Princess)
-Till-Riv Farm (Iridescent's Caramel Breve 1*M VGEE88)
-Sweet Dairy Airs (Till-Riv WTM Lucky Yoshi Fruit *B GVV83
-Dogwood Farms (Till-Riv SC Call Me Big Daddy *B)
-Ivory Hill Farm (Broken Top MT BeeDeeEssEmm & Till-Riv U I'm Unlimited *B VVG86)
-Hummingburton Farm (Till-Riv U I'm Unlimited *B VVG86)
-Doodah Farm (Urban Acres HWT Steller Wind EEV91)
-Fir Clearing Farm (Broken Top MT Peppa Pig 4*M VVVV86)
-Melissa Zager (Broken Top MT Let's Go Pikachu)

Info On Leases:https://www.brokentopgoats.com/_files/ugd/cf3606_3a9645d888254caeb4a00fc0fa8fc970.pdf

12/25/2024

All the goats were very thankful for Holiday Cookies from their favorite doctor! Hand delivered to our house by the clinic staff ❤️❤️ The pups and Thomas are in the comments as well 😉

12/24/2024

Okay but I have the best friends 🥹

This picture was always one of my favorites. It just captured the joy I feel and the connection with my girls when I know. Zy was one that always loved to be with me.. she didn’t quite understand the ring was for professionalism. But after placing I allow lovings if they choose, and she always chose ❤️

Thanks Ivory Hill Farm, so much. It really ties the awards table together!!

Make sure to tag the artist for me! 😉

Adding another beautiful gift from LeRoy (courtesy of Ellen Dorsey!) always loved Ellen’s art AND goats, hence the heavy presence in the herd :)

12/21/2024

📖 STORYTIME 📖

Recently, a local "farm friend" asked me what the goats wanted for the holidays. I chuckled it off but she informed me she was quite serious.
I'm not one to ask for help. I certainly am not made of money, but I can make do with budgeting and self-sufficiency.
However, this friend was persistent. She asked me to make a list and she would "just get something". My big mouth had to mention that I already keep an Amazon list of items I need or want for the goats and purchase from...

She told me that all she wanted in return was for me to be better about asking for help. I of course said something along the lines of "yeah yeah"... Friend is quite intelligent.. and said that she wanted me to post this in return of her favor.

Please do not feel compelled to purchase anything. But do know I am very grateful for the support I have in my life and the way that my goat community helps me stay afloat. This last year with the divorce and work picking up in chaos and client load.. it has been a test. One I couldn't have passed without said "local farm friend".

Thank you, friend.

Our Broken Top Farm Wishlist:

12/19/2024

❄️WINTERIZATION❄️

I prefer to live in a climate with seasons, and that means snow and cold!

Here are a few of our to-do's before winter hits:

-🔌Extension cord checks. We make sure they are in good condition, clean dust off, and add waterproof connector covers over plug-in points (https://amzn.to/3OUm3XE)
-🚿New hoses that don't leak. One is even a short little guy that reaches the troughs perfectly so I can let it hang to dry rather than unscrewing it (https://amzn.to/49CdfPO)
-⚡️Electrical outlets. We hired an electrician and added a few more electrical outlets in the barn so those cords mentioned, have lessened!
-♨️Water heaters pulled out, cleaned up, and reinstalled (https://a.co/d/fTiMACf)
-🧹Deep cleaning barns. We do the deep clean twice a year and touch up as needed. I highly suggest renting a mini-skid loader to help! For me, this also includes raking the entire property to clear the large amounts of pine needles and goat p**p that accumulate.
-🎥Check and clean barn cameras. I clean lenses and ensure connection. I have a Homekit set up with my house, so I like the Circleview for features and being able to see my whole property on one screen (https://amzn.to/4izigg9). The other is for spots on the property without electricity and to not add more cords. They're battery and solar-powered and almost always have a charge! (https://amzn.to/3BqCLen).
-🚰Hydrants ready. We hired someone to add a hydrant to the fence by the buck and yearling waterers and replace the other hydrant I've been fixing every couple of months or so. No carrying water buckets this year!
-❄️Reliable snow shovel. I prefer to make sure the goats' area in front of the barns is cleaned about 30' back and they (and I) have paths to explore (and feed bucks). Found this heavy-duty guy and I don't expect this task to be on my list for a while! (https://amzn.to/3BvPyfo).
-💉Annual blood draws. I prefer to do them in the late fall so I can confirm any pregnancies I am unsure of via blood. More updates coming on those later!
-⚖️Certify the milk scale. DHIA requirements are that it is done annually, so off to the lab and new batteries in (https://amzn.to/3DdD24F).

Now, these photos were taken a couple of weeks ago, because right now it's all covered in the snow and you wouldn't be able to see it all "at work".

12/16/2024

‼️BREEDING UPDATE‼️

This year sucked for me, some of you know that. Unfortunately, this transferred to the efficiency of my breeding. It has nothing to do with the bucks or does, and is fully on me not catching heats...

I have a plan for Peony, Peach, Whisper, Zip, Jupiter, and Pokey based on testing and results. I will have estimated due dates by 1/20. The latest we will kid is mid-May. It's not what I wanted... but we'll make it work.

So here are the confirmed does!
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3/4/25-Till-Riv JT Pocketful O Posies 1*M VEVV88 (2 legs) X Till-Riv BWZ Flash Point VGG84

3/4/25-Goat Addiction Twisted Fe**sh 6*M VGVV86 X Till-Riv BWZ Flash Point VGG84

3/7/25-Broken Top IU Chai Tea Latte X Urban Acres HWT Steller Wind EEV91

3/26/25-4/10/25-Flying Feets I Lavoiture Noire X Urban Acres HWT Steller Wind EEV91

3/26/25-4/10/25-Broken Top MT Made of Money X Urban Acres HWT Steller Wind EEV91

3/26/25-4/10/25-Springwater WSCO Jelly Bean X Urban Acres HWT Steller Wind EEV91

As always, remember to get those free, verbal reservations in!!!

*See pictures of the Papas for excitement 😉

12/14/2024

UPDATE!!! Sargon is going to be wethered and go to a great pet home. He even gets to maintain a career, just in a different "field". He'll be a grazing goat at Sage Hound farm!

7 DAY NOTICE

Jax Farms Sargon Blue
(available UN-regsistered, willing to wether as a companion)

Sale Barn Run is next weekend.
I hate it, but it must be done.

Sargon is an absolute sweetheart, and honestly almost as funny as he thinks he is.

He comes from the lines of my original herd and he mean's so much to me sentimentally. However sentimental doesn't always add up to my current herd goals and ethics.

Sargon is not the quality of animal I would put into the breeding pool, therefore will go without his registration papers or weathered. I simply want him to be loved and live a good life.

He has capacious udders behind him, shown by the incredible width and correctness to his rear leg set. He will share the perfect temperament and moonspots with his offspring as well, as he does so consistently.

Willing to hold with a deposit, but that must be received by 12/20.

Asking very minimal, because a good home is a priority.

12/06/2024

‼️LAST CALL‼️

I'll add their info as well as names below, they each have a bit of a "story" and their fee reflects that.

🚀 Broken Top SB Space Odyssey 1️⃣0️⃣0️⃣
(Ody is a wether due to fainting genetics that have surfaced. He has been marked in ADGA genetics and no offspring hold their registrations. He is very sentimental to me and I would really prefer he go to a home as a heat-seeking companion than the market.. His fainting tendencies are not common and pose no health risk to him.)

👑 Jax Farms Sargon Blue 2️⃣5️⃣0️⃣
(Sargon is in tact and would serve as a good buck for a herd that wants milk volume and correct body conformation. His mammaries are not the quality of my performance herd, but are spot on for a family or hobby farm. Willing to sell discounted greatly without papers and especially if he and Ody can be together! Sargon is also special because he is the son of a Nigerian I kidded out when I was a teenager back in WI..)

✨Goat Addiction Illumination - 2️⃣5️⃣0️⃣ or 1️⃣0️⃣0️⃣
(Lumi's pedigree is phenomenal, or I wouldn't have kept the one kid she's ever had as a sire on the farm, Flash! However, we have tried hormones, various bucks, and numerous breeding attempts with no luck. If you want her with papers it will be a bit more - but still very low cost, but without papers at a pet home she will also be very very low.)

Happy to be transparent in discussing ANY of these goats, but doing what is ethical is costing me in feed and space.. So December 20th is last call before auction day :(

All health tested last week (and annually previously) for the big three. In great health and fluffy for winter!

La Pine, OR

12/05/2024

Wanna play a game??!

What if I told you there was a new face at Broken Top!!

Anyone that comments an original tidbit/humorous twist/or a fact about the goat from the site gets…

‼️$100 off ANY KID this next kidding season or any animal currently for sale!!!!‼️

Let’s hear those tidbits starting with my two tidbits:

🫘”Starburst flavor are the only acceptable ones”
🏆“Paternal sister is the 2024 National Reserve Grand Champion”

12/04/2024

ANNOUNCEMENT TIME!!!

Steller may be new here, but we would be silly not to get him out in the world!
Message me for details!

His Page Link: https://www.brokentopgoats.com/bucks

Sire: Urban Acres WCT Hewitt *1 leg* *DNA*
Sire's Sire: Urban Acres WC Thunder
Sire's Dam: Urban Acres SD My Fair Lady
Dam: SGCH Urban Acres ASD Fairey 4*MAR EEEE92 *DNA*
Dam's Sire: Algedi Farm MH Space Dust +*B VVV85 *DNA*
Dam's Dam: SG Urban Acres PP Blue Firefly 3*MAR GGEA83

11/27/2024

Didn’t quite hit 95%, but I have no complaints with these two first fresheners!! Peppa’s sisters are sitting pretty as well at 93% and 92%.

Broken Top MT Peppa Pig 4*M VVVV86 - 92%

Till-Riv JT Pocketful O Posies 1*M VEVV88 - 94%

Shout out to Teddy as well, no freshened daughters yet but his ETA is insane!
His littermate sister hit 99% as did his dam (2nd in the record book currently!)
ETA 2:1 262
ETA 1:2 145

11/27/2024

PSA: LeRoy Satter himself just sent me a picture of none other than the SHOP KITTY, SNUGGLING, WITH HIM, IN HIS CHAIR.

A Christmas Miracle ❤️💚

As both me and Katie said at the same time “he’s getting soft!”

11/26/2024

11/22/2024

Finally sat down and organized my photo folders for the farm!

Thought I'd give a share of the beautiful pictures I've had flooding my eyeballs tonight :)

🐐🗄️📂How do I do my organization???
-Overall Farm folder
-Senior Doe, Junior Doe, and Buck Subfolders
-Each goat has a subfolder within that category
-Subfolders for each goat of "fun pictures", "set up", and "reference animals"
-The "Set Up" subfolder has "junior" and "senior" subfolders and I keep the best two or three photos out so I know what ones to use when posting/website!

SO...
Here are those best two or three photos of the kids from last year who made the dreaded cuts!

11/15/2024

For years I’ve been trying to get my hands on one of these, let alone a first edition.

Huge thank you to my anonymous donor for footing the tab for this beauty, which in twofold supported the RVDGA in a silent auction style!
And a secondary shout out to Pholia Farm for the donation of this book for the auction to happen!!

I expect I’ll be getting less done around here now that I have reading to do! Fitting since we’re having a snowstorm tonight!