Genesis 6 Farm

12/28/2024

We welcomed Cassian 💙 from Haafke's Minis! This precious guy is so fluffy and beautiful, we love him already 🤗

12/22/2024

Dixie with her twin girls, Decorah and Daytona 💕

12/22/2024

Darla decided to have her baby on the same day her mama (Dixie) had babies also. It's barely lunch time and we have had two mamas give birth today!

A single buckling, Dallas, born to Darla in about 60 seconds of pushing... I barely caught the birth it happened so fast! He is warming up and nursing with Mom in our laundry room 💙

12/22/2024

Jackson is so precious 😍 he has graduated to being a bottle baby, at no fault of his own 😊

Twin doelings joined us early Sunday morning, pictures to come soon! Oh, and Darla is in early labor. A busy weekend before Christmas! 🎄

12/21/2024

Judy kicked off 2025 kidding with a winter solstice baby early this morning! Jackson is our first buckling of the season 💙

2025 name theme is US cities, so look for the fun names we have picked for this year 😊

We have several more kiddings for December and January, and we expect some of our breedings to be due in March also. Stay tuned 😊

12/08/2024

Tomorrow kicks off our earliest due dates for 2025 kidding! Yes, it's still 2024. 🎉
Setting up kidding pens and laying down fresh bedding, though we are hoping they have babies during this warm weather. We didn't expect 60 degrees with December kidding 😳

12/03/2024

09/22/2024

⭐✨💎 Tiny Diamond 💎✨⭐
Since his mama is Poppy, and his stepdad is Branch, we decided to continue the theme of Trolls and call this guy, Tiny Diamond 😂

We are taking interest in this cute, fluffy guy now. Though we adore him, we also know that we won't keep him forever! I am not actively posting him on other sites yet, but opening up reservation for any of our followers who may be interested in him! Send me a message if you'd like to talk about him!
Deposit will be required for us to mark him as reserved, and he will leave our farm around the end of 2024/early 2025.
He can leave as a jack or can be gelded - message us to discuss the timeline for that, if gelding is your preference.
Please keep in mind, we will only have 1-2 mini donkeys available each year, as a donkey's gestation period is very lengthy! 🫏

09/04/2024

Little boy escaped today and then had big regrets when he couldn't get back to mama! 😂
We helped him back inside the fence but made him snuggle us first 😊🥰

08/24/2024

Farming can be full of surprises. Walking out in the morning to your pasture of two donkeys, and seeing 3 donkeys, is a very exciting surprise indeed.
Our first mini donkey born on our farm 🥰🥰🥰 🫏🫏🫏

08/24/2024

We are finally reaching the end of our hatching season!
If you are new to my page, we hatch Icelandic chicks on our farm.
Icelandic chickens are a rare/threatened breed of chicken originating from Iceland. They are a medium sized chicken, and they are cold-hardy and predator-resistant. They are fast, energetic and excellent free-rangers. We love having this breed on our farm and have a goal of hatching out at least 100 chicks per year to reintroduce the breed into the US.
This year, so far, we have sent out 144 Icelandic chicks, with incubators still going! I plan to retain many for our farm also to replenish our flock.
If you are interested in chicks for this year still, or want to get on the list for spring 2025, please let me know!
If you've gotten some of the 144 from this year so far - please share pictures in the comments! They are a beautiful and colorful breed.
I'll update the final 2024 total in September when I put my incubators away ☺️

08/23/2024

Viola is searching for a new farm! She is a 5 month old baby doll ewe lamb. 🐑❤️

08/16/2024

I'm just finishing up Icelandic chicks orders for the year! Message me if you'd like some out of the last round of 2024 hatching 🐣☺️

07/05/2024

Samuel is so photogenic!

07/05/2024

‼️That concludes 2024 kidding! ‼️
Back in February, we thought Shirley (also known as Penny) was pregnant. We even had an ultrasound and were told she was bred! We had planned for late April babies 😍
Then, our standard size Lamancha buck jumped the fence and got to her. Much to our surprise, she was in fact in heat.
Shirley is a mini-nubian, which means she is about 50% Nigerian dwarf and 50% Nubian. So she is slightly smaller than a standard goat, but much larger than our Nigerians. For her to deliver kids from a standard size buck, could be difficult.
Today she delivered a single huge buckling! He was 8.2 lbs, about 3 lbs larger than her biggest kid last year.
Samuel, as we are calling him, is 27% Nubian, 23% Nigerian, and 50% Lamancha. He comes from some pretty great dairy lines, though he is from two different breeds so he will not be registerable! 💙 Both parents registration is pictured.
Thanking God for a safe delivery, and mama did such a good job!

06/18/2024

Comment on the original post! 🐐

⭐ Starting a comment thread! ⭐
If you have purchased goat kids from us at any point, please feel free to drop an updated picture of your goats in the comments! We love to see how they grow and mature 😊
Two cute doelings out of Dixie from 2022 pictured!

06/17/2024

A major solar field is under construction about 10 minutes away from us. It's an ugly sight to see approaching the large city near us.
I have many things I could say about that, but instead I'd like to vent about the impact this has on a small farm.
Our power company has had 4 outages so far in June, which has completely destroyed our small egg operation. 82 chicks, supposed to be hatching this week, are lifeless and I'm left to deal with that and the impacts to our customers.
The power company assumes no responsibility. I'm not surprised. I'm thankful they are doing all they can, but as a paying customer who pays the electric bill on time, I don't appreciate a setback like this that costs our farm a large amount of money.
I apologize to all who ordered chicks for June. I will get your chicks to you, and I so appreciate your patience through this rough month!
🥚 🐥 🐣

06/16/2024

Worked on the garden this weekend, including Brielle's "milkweed garden" which we have to keep every year for caterpillar season! 🐛 🦋 🌿 🍅