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11/14/2024

Nov 30th we will be set up in Winamac with soap and baskets! Stop by and see us 10-1 EST 😁

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11/06/2024

Di is never quiet about being in heat 😂 I absolutely LOVED this cross last year, one of my very favorite doe kids resulted. I had her buck kid sold twice, and after both backed out someone wanted a pair of wethers… it truly broke my heart putting that band on! Biggest regret of the year, I should have just kept him for myself. She was FF, and I have too many bucks- but still, I regret it even more every time I look at my doe kid! So REPEAT! 😍 And if you want one of my best kids this year, this one’s a waitlist to be on!

10/31/2024

💕 Look what finally came today, Dido’s letter! 💕

She is now OFFICIALLY- SGCH Twin Willows J Dido 1*M EX 91.6 💕

Forever greatful to my friend Erica Hopkins who bred Dido and my dear SG Twin Willows TIO Ballerina, 2 of the 3 does my herd is built around 💕

10/24/2024

The Guernsey girls 🥰 They are SO sweet, and SO gentle. The epitome of demure! Planning to do a blood draw to check for pregnancy but I strongly suspicion we have little golden babies cooking in there 🥰 Every day I rub Beatrice’s belly and chant, “doe kids, doe kids, doe kids” 💕

10/24/2024

Patchwork Acres Treat Yo Self 🥰

Love love love these Ilenesrascals RR Komorebi kids. This was at night with a headlight and phone, but yes her escutcheon is THAT high and they’re all wide stout little beasts 💕 So incredibly happy with this years kids!

10/19/2024

What it looks like when a fat little Chaos Goblin insists on helping you paint trim 😑🤦‍♀️

10/18/2024

Both of the boys are out working tonight 😍 Curds is breeding Pepinillo and Hadron is in with Black Label and Lulubella.

It’s a fairly easy breeding season this year with “Are you closely related to Hadron?” being the main question, with all “No’s” being bred to Hadron and everyone else requiring thought 😂

Curds is still looking for his next working home! He’d very excitedly breeding does, I think he’ll be ready for plenty of work this year!

Patchwork Acres Curds & Whey *B (pending) DNA done
Sired via AI by- Hidden Hills Chase the Legend +*B
Dam- Patchwork Acres Dancers Quark 3*M

10/09/2024

I’ve had a few people make a bit of a face over the fact my light gold doe (out of a white doe & light gold buck) bred to a light gold buck (with gold dam & sire) produced a chocolate buck & a black/white buck. Especially with AI being involved, I totally understand the disbelief.

Honestly, when I walked out of the milkroom to Quark cleaning these 2 boys I said, “Whose kids are those?!?!” 😂

But DNA is finally back and on file- Hidden Hills Chase the Legend +*B- you ARE the father! I have honestly never doubted just because these boys don’t look like anything else on my property. And none of my bucks are willing to produce chocolate babies for me 😂

Quark is just THAT good of a girl to give me a solid chocolate buck kid! Watch him throw 100% gold babies of course!

Hadron is currently very enthusiastically working on breeding most my does this year.

Curds is still looking for a herd to call his own, and also very happily practicing for his own ladies! 😉

So so so excited to see kids out of these boys 😍

10/08/2024

Our boys straws are on sale over at Blue Mountain Genetics! Straws can be picked up anywhere in his route or at Convention!

My ZZ daughters are my favorite young does in my herd.

Raptors first daughters will be freshening this year and I expect them to be amazing!

10/05/2024

These 2 beautiful doe kids are still looking for their new herd! Really sweet girls, they are good buddies and would love to go together. Both come from excellent milking lines, large handmilking teats, high well attached udders. Bottle raised and overly friendly!

I’m in Indianapolis area Monday Oct 7th and they can catch a car ride with 😊

10/01/2024

09/27/2024

Hadron finally took his *cough* out of his mouth for pretty pictures 🥰 He’s having his first o**y today with Cece, Squishy, and Zsa Zsa! So so so excited about his kids 💕

Patchwork Acres CTL Hadron *B (AI)
Sire- Hidden Hills Chase the Legend +*B
Dam- Patchwork Acres Dancer’s Quark 3*M

He just gets prettier and prettier 💕 He has a really beautiful neck and rump hidden in that mane, and he’s just the sweetest boy too.

Hadron, Marvel, and Ilene’s Rascels Komorebi will make up the lions share of our breedings this year. I have a few repeats for Castle Rock Velosaraptor, Su, and some AIs as well but those are waiting for Oct 😉

*Hadrons littermate brother Curds is still looking for work too! He’s just as gorgeous and sweet as his brother 😉

09/25/2024

One of these things is not like the others… 😂

Beatrice decided she was done being in a small herd of 2 and broke into the Nigerian baby pen. They are fascinated with the giraffe lady who visited!

I think my concerns around introductions are pretty unfounded 😂

09/21/2024

It’s definitely barberpole season! I usually do fresh copper boluses this time of year, and start closely watching everyone.

I’ve pulled the herd off pasture for about the next couple weeks to let things regrow and give them a break when the worm load will be the heaviest out there. Keep a close eye out, they hit fast!

Beware of rain just after a dry period.
Barber Pole worm larvae (H. Contortus) cannot wait to hatch from the eggs laid by your goats and sheep this summer. They are rapidly doing this now. If your does are hungry for fiber, they will find these tender blades of new grass close to the soil and pick up massive numbers of larvae.
Combat this by offering hay to keep their bellies full of non infected fiber or keep them off the grass. This will prevent the anemia that will follow a heavy infection of blood sucking barber pole worms.
Check the inner lower eyelid of any goat that is slow to come to the feed bunk or that is not with the herd. Treat pale individual goats with 2 different types of dewormers and get that goat off the pasture and away from the infection.
But do not deworm an entire group. This will create parasite resistance quickly! Remember, a goat herder cannot beat parasites with dewormers alone. The life cycle of the parasite is too short. But use the dewormers as a tool for heavily infected individual goats or sheep.
StockVets will prepare to get phone calls in about 5-10 days which is about the time the anemias will start erupting after the 1st rain NW IN has received in a couple of weeks.
Good luck!

09/21/2024

We are HOME! Over 24 hrs on the road- I feel like a 1/2 eaten McDonald’s cheeseburger, thrown out a car window, being carried away by ants- who has become ever so slightly sentient…

But look at this pretty lady 🥰

09/21/2024

On the road again!

Beatrice and Beautiful are riding in the car, on the trailer; Gus and Ollie are squeezed into the Penske truck with us and we should get home about 3 am! It’s like the 24 hr day of going to a goat show 🤪

These girls are SO pretty! 🥰 They’re like fuzzy teddy bears! And so calm and sweet, even after their long trek from Louisiana!

I can’t wait for more official introductions and better pictures tomorrow (nobody look their best after 10 hrs in a car and under gas station lights) but very excited to introduce the first British Guernseys of Patchwork Acres Farm! 🥰

Hopefully we actually picked up a couple extra, as Beatrice has been exposed to a buck before traveling, we’ll know in 30 days! 😁🎉🤞🤞

09/20/2024

And the adventure continues 😑

Trucking right along making great time, going to have lunch with my friend and still get there early! And *BEEP BEEP* the dashboard starts flashing and we have overheating transmission fluid.

Stopped at a mechanic who couldn’t tell us much from the computer. He gave us the name of another guy who was a Subaru specialist and he said it could be a sensor, a solenoid, or a bad transmission. Have to take the transmission out to tell for sure. But a bad transmission should seize up right away- and ours hasn’t.

Drove to meet my friend and drop off Dodo, there was a U haul in that town we hoped to rent a truck and car hauler. No dice- closest in stock was over an hour away. Now the light is on solid and the car smells “hot”.

Penske has a setup like we need 30 minutes south, in the direction we need also. Score! So now we’re there and spent an hour doing paperwork and the truck they give us has bad tires- so David went back to get that sorted.

So back on the road shortly, still 4 hrs from our destination and an 8 hr trip home. My car is likely fried 😭

Hug your transporters, this goat totin’ isn’t all it’s cracked up to be! I’m pretty sure David now has a requirement that if Brian can’t bring it I can’t have it 😂🤦‍♀️ But thankfully he’s here running the show or I’d just be stuck on the side of the road unable to drive a giant Penske truck 😬 At least I’ve got the worlds best husband and worlds best dogs helping or it’d be a really extra rotten day.

The adventure continues 🤪

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North Judson, IN
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Tuesday	7am - 6pm
Wednesday	7am - 6pm
Thursday	7am - 6pm
Friday	7am - 6pm
Saturday	7am - 6pm
Sunday	7am - 6pm

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Di/Raptor babies 2025!

The Stinkies are NOT enjoying the heat! This is the best time of year to get your boys fed up and really primed and healthy BEFORE rut so they can handle the big stress coming up in just a couple months!

Bucks

Breakfast!

Our remaining babies enjoying the outdoors at Patchwork Acres

2024 babies

One if the things I get asked about the most is pasture, and how I get my goats to eat pasture?!? Goats don’t mow lawns. They will not maintain a pasture like a lawn, they will just stand there and scream for hay. They will refuse unless literally starved to eat short grass. One of the #1 things people do wrong is get frustrated and start mowing- they’ll watch you and refuse to help 😂 They love grass you can lose a goat in, not a lawn. You want a mowed lawn, I highly recommend sheep! Goats like weeds, but not ALL weeds. They LOVE lambsquarter, giant ragweed, briars, small trees, poison ivy, and I even planted some “weeds” like dandelions, and chicory. They love that stuff. But they DON’T like nettles, ragweed, thistles, nightshades, poke, or Jimson weed (which is good- Jimson is toxic stuff!) So people will send me pictures of their “pasture” of Jimson weed and nightshades, angry the goats won’t touch it- be glad, it’ll kill them! I have seen Jimson weed poisonings- and I’m a little neurotic about the stuff. We walk our pasture daily with the dogs, and me and my husband spent the first few years stopping to pull any Jimson we found (which was a lot, it used to be a cornfield). Now we really don’t have any. Between us pulling what the goats can’t eat, and the goats aggressively grazing the weeds they enjoy- my pasture has incredibly few “weeds” in it at all. We’ve never sprayed an herbicide in 8 years of living here. Have variety! Don’t plant grasses who naturally stay short, like lawn grass. You want those grasses like orchard and Timothy that will get tall and grow well. Plant lots of variety. My planting mix was alfalfa, birdsfoot trefoil, lespedeza, (the clovers volunteered aggressively but I would recommend them, the goats love it), and chicory with orchard and Timothy grasses. Lots of people say no pasture for goats- they’ll just get worms and die. This is partially true, poorly maintained and overstocked pasture on

Kids

Babies! The biggest kids got moved to the outdoor pen, and as they leave more mid-range kids will join. The numbers are becoming more manageable and my sanity is slowly improving 😜 We have 2 wethers, and 2 bucks currently available. I do have a few doe kids ready to go. I also have a pet quality doe kid I’d sell as unregistered, no flaws shes just very small and I’m not 100% sure she will reach breeding size. If she does and you wanted to buy papers, I would paper her later. As more kids leave I’ll be posting does in milk next month. I do have some dry does available, a couple yearlings, and 1 bred doe available. Just slow getting pictures with ALL the madness going on 😜

The littlest babies all snug in their bed, enjoying their heater on this wicked cold night 💕

I’m terribly behind in baby announcements, we’ve had a bit of an explosion and it’s only just the start- 8 more does to kid in the next 5 or so days 🤦‍♀️ These are the latest group, currently hanging in the milkroom. The giant fellow is the youngest, Duckies MASSIVE single buck kid sired by Castle Rock Velosaraptor (last year she had twin bucks kids from him). The gold and white kids are from Sprite and Su, and kick off my madness of breeding 9 does in 2 days 😜 But on the good side- after this group I’m well over 1/2 done for the year and that exciting 🥳 We will have lots of kids available in the next couple weeks, contact me to get on our waitlist for babies 😁

Cleaning baby buckets really is super easy and fast. I suck hot soapy water through each nipple, dump and rinse, pull rinse water through, and finished. It’s far faster than cleaning 6 bottles would be! Every couple days I do a bleach rinse also, and I’ll let that sit for a bit while I do other thing and come back to it to rinse. If I’m using the bucket to feed twice a day, and pulling in between, I let it sit full of soapy water, with soapy water pulled into all the nipples when not in use. Then rinse and flush right before I use it. Stops any mold or cooties setting up in those nipples that don’t really dry out well.