LAME Acres Nubian Goat Farm

03/03/2025

I have the month of March off from Kidding due to my Husbands 50th birthday coming up later this month. We are taking a 5 day family trip with kids and grandkids to celebrate and so I did not want any births or newborn kids to interfere with this! 😬
So kidding will resume the 1st of April with a First Freshener Doe
L.A.M.E. Acres Junie bred to Rancho de San Isidro Hercules.
Junie is the granddaughter to my amazing foundation Doe Crow’s Dairy Rhonda and her Sire is Crow’s Dairy Owen. Expecting her to be a big milk producer like her Granddam and Dam! Excited to see what she does!

Pics are of her and Hercules and then udder pics are from her GrandDam Rhonda (a gallon a day producer at 2 years post kidding) and her Dam Sunny.

Accepting requests for kids now.

03/02/2025

The 7 kids born alittle over a week ago are doing great!! They are beautiful and already full of s***k and getting fat from all of their Mama’s milk! Lol

Star’s Buckling who has 100% Black Mesa Ranch lines is currently available. Message me for info.

02/26/2025

This is so true!!! Raising Dairy goats is not for the weak. And there are times I ask myself why exactly I keep doing this. But for some reason I can’t imagine myself not doing this. I can’t say I understand it and I definitely can’t explain it but I love my goats. Even though it’s hard long hours every day and it ties me here when I could be out enjoying who knows what, I am not ready to retire from Goat farming quite yet. 😊

"I would love to be a goat farmer. It would be so fun to play with baby goats all day!"

Goat farming can be great. It IS fun to play with baby goats. Sometimes goat farming is absolutely delightful, with cute babies, warm streams of delicious milk, and beautiful friendly faces full of happy greetings when we walk into the barn.

We share the cute faces and happy moments on social media, but sometimes goat farming isn't so fun....

Sometimes it pushes us to the edge of our emotional and physical stamina. Sometimes goat farming tries to break us.
Sometimes goat farming is long exhausting nights out in the cold lonely barn fighting to save a goat whom we love like a child.
It can be hours of researching, hoping to find a magic pill, even when experience tells us that none exists. It is constantly learning, and feeling helpless when we reach the end of our knowledge and that of the experts who say, "you've done all there is to do".
It can be financial loss, and expensive vet visits.
It can mean sobbing on the barn floor as we sit beside the crushed hopes and dreams of the last months or even years.

Goat farming can mean "at least we saved the doe" is actually a win, because we know next time we might not be so lucky.

Sometimes goat farming means wiping away our tears then squaring up and going forward to our next task, because we know that even while enduring loss and setbacks, we have too much work to do to wallow in grief.

The joys are real. Some days the heartbreak is too.

02/23/2025

It was a whirlwind of babies being born in less then 24 hrs. Idk how some breeders have a lot more then 3 Does kidding in the same day! 3 is exhausting enough for me☺️

So here’s what we ended up with:

Born New Hope Brie/L.A.M.E. Acres Flash
Triplets: 2 doelings (available)
1 buckling (doa)

L.A.M.E Acres Peaches/L.A.M.E. Acres Samson
Triplets: 1 doeling
2 bucklings *all kids reserved*

L.A.M.E. Acres Star/Rancho de San Isidro Emiliano
Twins: 1 doeling (retained)
1 buckling (available)

02/22/2025

Star finally kidded about 5:45 am, but she did it quickly and one right after the other. She had twins a doeling and a buckling. Will get better pics of everyone later during daylight hours.

02/22/2025

Ok 2 down 1 to go! Peaches just had triplets, 1 doeling and 2 bucklings! And I think Star is in labor as well😳

02/21/2025

These 2 Big Mama’s are next to kid! They were both due on Wednesday and they today they are both bagging up, so they might decide to go into labor at the same time 🤪 Peaches is huge and I wouldn’t be surprised if she has quads in there. I’m hoping for atleast twins from Star since her first 2 kiddings she just had singles. Might be a long night ahead🙃

02/21/2025

Finally after waiting for 6 days for my first freshener Brie to kid, she did mid morning with a beautiful spotted doeling. I thought for sure she must have one more in there but she never tried pushing anymore and acted normal like she was done. She’s alittle skiddish and I didn’t want to freak her out by checking inside her since everything went smoothly and normally with the first doeling. But to my shock when I went to check on mom and baby 2 1/2 hrs later, she had a partial head sticking out, no legs though. So I hurried to find legs and I found another head. Pushed that back and found the right front legs and pulled the little boy out. Sadly he had died since he was stuck with his head out. But rushed back in and pulled out the 3rd kid and it was another perfect little doeling. She’s doing great and so is mom and her sister. I should have checked mom soon after first was born like I usually do just to make sure no other kids were in there, but I didn’t. 😕
Brie was more comfortable being outside this morning so since it was a nice morning I let her do her thing out outside and then after the first girl was born I moved mom and baby into the kidding pen where they will be for the next day or so. You can see if the first few pics the Sire L.A.M.E. Acres Flash in the background checking out his new babies. These are the first kids born from him and he did not disappoint!

02/15/2025

For those of you going through your first kidding season hope this helps. There are so many things to learn and know it can be overwhelming 😊

Did you know that if your doe has a single kid, you need to start milking her from day one? 🐐

Why? It’s all about supply and demand!

A good dairy goat produces enough milk for twins, so if you don’t milk her, her body will reduce milk production to match the needs of just one kid.

This not only affects her milk supply but also leaves you missing out on all that delicious milk!

Listen to this episode and learn how to maximize milk production while keeping your doe and kid healthy. 🎧

Link below!

02/14/2025

Happy Valentine’s Day from my Farm to Yours!! Just know all of your animals love and appreciate all you do for them everyday! Even when you have to stomach flu like I’ve had the last few days we still go out and care for them even when we are sick, that’s true love. Lol
😍🐐🐏🐑🐖🐂🐄🫏🦙🐎🦮🐓🦃🦚🐇

02/11/2025

Good info for anyone who milks! I would love to get a chilling tank to rapid chill my milk. But that’s still out of my budget. Maybe someday 🤞🏼

💯💯💯THIS is a low-tech and uber effective way to rapidly chill your raw milk! TIPS for making this work well 👇👇👇:

1. The milk jars should be submerged in the cold ice-and-water, but make sure that the water level does not reach lid of the milk container. Otherwise, there may be problems with water comingling with the milk in the jars.

2. The size of the milk jar will make a big difference in how long it will take the milk to chill down. We recommend that farmers use milk jars that are no larger than ½ gallon, or else the chilling time will be too lengthy.

3. Some farmers who do not have ice maker machines have preferred to use frozen water bottles which can be reused over and over again.

4. Make sure there is enough cold ice water to rapidly chill the milk. If there are too many milk jugs in relation to the amount of ice water, then the chilling will not be quick enough.

5. Whatever method you use, you can check to see whether the milk is chilling rapidly enough by measuring the temperature in the middle of your milk jars after an hour. Aim for under 40 degrees F within an hour after milking.

MORE INFO ON HOW AND WHY TO RAPIDLY CHILL YOUR RAW MILK 👇👇👇: https://www.rawmilkinstitute.org/updates/rapid-chilling-of-raw-milk-lowers-pathogen-risks-and-improves-shelf-life

02/10/2025

Bailey’s 3 kids are doing great!! They are thriving and of of course full of mischief! They are getting so big. They will be 6 weeks old tomorrow. Getting good pics of bottle babies is always so hard because they are always in your face. lol

01/23/2025

I can’t believe it was 10 years ago today that one of my original Does Black Mesa Sarah gave birth to quintuplets!! It was her second freshening and she was so huge she could hardly walk! But she did amazing and had all 5 on her own without any issues! 4 doelings and a buckling and all survived and did great!
Sarah was such an amazing Doe! Goldthwaite Exotic Affair was her sire. I also had her full twin brother Black Mesa Stanley. They are both gone now but I’m not sure I will ever have any that will replace them.
L.A.M.E. Acres Samson and Star are from her last kidding in 2021.
Sarah has been my most prolific Doe so far. She had 8 kiddings and 23 kids born. 11 Does/12 Bucks
1. Twins
2. Quintuplets
3. Quads
4. Triplets
5. Triplets
6. Twins
7. Twins
8. Twins

01/19/2025

Interesting Goat Facts for the Day:
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01/15/2025

The GOAT Breeders Prayer😅