Rock Bottom Farm is a family farmstead located in Richmond, ME. Raising registered Nigerian dairy goats and kunekune pigs on pasture for pork production.
Please see our website for more information!
03/31/2025
.. and in other wildly-exciting news, Phay came home with me today! She's beautiful, petite and everything I love about a Nigerian Dwarf. I feel beyond fortunate to have her in my herd!
If you're at all familiar with Old Mountain Farm goats, I've admired Swift Impala from afar for years. Cheryle has a years-long waitlist, and the likelihood of ever getting my hands on those genes felt impossible. Phay is a daughter to Impala and granddaughter to Gazelle .. I am over-the-moon excited about this doe!! 💫✨
*Thank you*, Stacey, for this opportunity and for trusting me with this special doe! 🤎🤎🤎
Old Mountain Farm Phaline Quinn
SIRE: Old Mountain Farm Bravo Quinn +*B
DAM: Old Mountain Farm Swift Impala 4*M
(photo credit to Haymaker Farm)
03/31/2025
Super-excited to have confirmation of twins for Lana (Haymaker Farm Svitlana Quinn) x Moon Station SS Oberon, due in July! 🤩🥳🤗😍
Thank you to Stacey at Haymaker Farm for Lana & this super-exciting match! 🤎
(photo credit to Haymaker Farm)
03/30/2025
Looking for goat kids?!
We’ve got a few does still available and LOTS of boys looking for pet homes!
All kids are disbudded. Clean tested herd (CL, CAE, Johnes negative). Will have first CDT. Doelings come with registration papers.
PM with interest!! (Goat pictured is already sold!)
03/28/2025
*** CALLING ALL SUNDAY 3/30 GOAT SNUGGLERS!! ***
The weather forecast for Sunday is looking pretty terrible. Our barn does offer some sheltered space for snuggling, but it isn't really well-suited for large groups. Road conditions are predicted to be poor and parking could get tricky (or even dangerous down on 201!).
An email went out this evening to everyone who has a reservation to snuggle this weekend -- I would like to offer anyone with 3/29 or 3/30 Goat Snuggle tickets the opportunity to switch your snuggle date. I have contacted private groups directly with a new date. For Group Snugglers you may come on 4/6 at 11 a.m. - 1 p.m. OR 4/12 from 10 a.m. - 12 p.m.
Please let me know if you'd like to attend either the 4/6 or 4/12 date -- if neither works please also reach out so that I can work with you to find a time that does work.
I'm so appreciative of your support of our farm and want to make sure everyone gets a chance to snuggle a baby goat (or 10!)
03/25/2025
I've added a couple goat snuggles for 4/19, if you were hoping to snuggle baby goats and didn't get a spot already! We had snuggles early this season -- and the winter weather has me planning for late-March / April kids for 2026!
There are also group snuggle spots left for 3/29 and 4/12!
If you didn't get a spot, and still want one, please send a message! I'm happy to try to accommodate people!
03/19/2025
We had a lovely group from the VCA Bath Animal Hospital join us for goat snuggles on Monday! A little rain didn’t dampen the mood .. the humans, kids & dogs enjoyed lots of snuggles!
There are some spots left on the website & new dates coming for April, stay tuned!
03/15/2025
The saying is something like “where there’s livestock, there’s deadstock”, highlighting the inevitable losses that can occur in livestock farming, acknowledging that some animals will die and that raising animals carries the inherent risk of animal mortality.
Most of our kiddings are over for this spring; there are a few stragglers for later in the season, but the biggest stress has passed. 39 kids born. 31 kids living today. Losses vary by year and for so many reasons. They almost all lead to small changes in herd management in an effort to prevent future loss.
When animals die here, we return them to nature by laying their bodies far out in the woods for other predators to take. If the ground were not frozen, we could bury them all (some are), but they can also be a valuable source of nutrition in late-winter when other food sources may be scarce. In warmer months we have utilized compost — keeping all those rich nutrients for the soil in our gardens.
Our bodies are from the earth, and to the earth we shall all return.
03/11/2025
This season is all about cute kids and admiring udders, IFYKY 🤣😆🤩 … admiring these ladies!! (Pardon my sloppy shaves!) 🥳
03/11/2025
**SALE PENDING**
Homestead Trio of Does in Milk
Looking for a home for these girls, together, as a milking trio. Great for a homestead situation. All does are registered, disbudded, clean herd test in Dec 2024, UTD CDT immunization, in milk (with kids right now, can negotiate sale with kids or after weaning). They will all stand for hand milking or machine (I use a Simple Pulse, but have an inexpensive pulsating pump that was given to me that I will send with them).
Moving them along only because they don't meet my herd goals and I need room for this year's keepers.
Happy to send additional photos of the does, their dams / sires, etc.
Willing assist with transport up to 1 hour away.
$600 for all 3.
03/09/2025
We kicked off goat snuggle season today! It was cold, but that just makes for goats who are even more eager to snuggle!
Hop on over to our website if you are interested in reserving your goat snuggle spot! Goat snuggling helps to socialize the kids (ours and yours!!), helps us pay for our hay and is also a time we look forward to chatching up with families who have visited us for years!
(Pic of Julia snuggling a kid, by Elijah)
03/07/2025
If it’s got to be triplet boys, at least they’re cute!! 🤎
03/03/2025
Baby boys for Ingrid! 🖤
03/03/2025
Want to feel this happy?!?
Come snuggle goat kids!!
Dates are posted on our website — will add dates as the others fill up. I do anticipate having April dates available.
If you’re interested in adding goats to your homestead — send a message! 💛
Each year refresh my colostrum supply from does who are big producers or who only have 1-2 kids. This way I always have extra if there is a kid who needs to be tube or bottle fed. There is a powdered colostrum that can be purchased, but nothing is as good as the real deal!
Goat colostrum has also come in handy around here for orphaned piglets!
02/16/2025
With kids arriving daily, we’re looking forward to goat snuggles! There are two options on the website: a one-hour private goat snuggle for up to 10 friends or family or group goat snuggles where 1 ticket covers up to two adults and the kids in the household.
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With kids arriving daily, we’re looking forward to goat snuggles! There are two options on the website: a one-hour private goat snuggle for up to 10 friends or family or group goat snuggles where 1 ticket covers up to two adults and the kids in the household.
Fall Pumpkins!
Now accepting all pumpkins or fall squash! Mostly, the pigs enjoy these treats .. occasionally goats / chickens.. and even a livestock guardian!
Smitty update: he’s hanging in there. Body temp was very low last night, I threw everything at home (antibiotic, anti inflammatory, steroids) .. I tucked him into a pile of hay and went to bed. He got up and ate the food I left him overnight but took quite a bit of persuasion, a raw egg and a big push to get him up - then he ate a bowl of fruit and soaked grains.
Still not himself, but he made it through the day. Hoping for progress tomorrow! 🤞🏼This is the first time we’ve had a sick adult pig in 6 years of raising and breeding pigs — there is always more to learn!
Tallying up the numbers and submitting registration papers! The 2024 kidding season brought 28 new babes to Rock Bottom Farm. We lost two — one stillborn and one died hours after being born. We had two bottle babies, and I held back only four kids! I’ll watch how these kids grow and decide who stays / goes as they mature and freshen! 🩷
Another successful nest! These ducklings look like a mix of Cayuga and runners. 🖤
We were fortunate last year to have all the hay we needed, and didn’t have to sacrifice quality, but I can’t say it isn’t still a relief to have the barn filled up again with gorgeous fresh hay! I start to stress when the barn is about half full, anyone else with me?!! In August we will stuff the barn to the rafters with second cut to get us through another winter. Keeping fingers crossed for lots of sun & just enough rain!! ☀️Thanks for the help @jake.mac11 @emhackett @tripp_mac_1124 & Amber Dodge
Bottle baby!
💜 UPDATE: Joey has a home! Phew!! 💜
Looking for a bottle baby?!
Joey might be the girl for you! *loves* snuggles, petting, talking, long walks in the yard and is literally “in your pocket” .. she’s a runt, small for her age, and I’d prefer that she go to a pet home — though she may grow very well and could potentially be a homestead milker. Mom easily milks a half gallon a day at peak.
We have other does / wethers who could go with her as companions if you don’t already have goats. She’s very, very sweet, but making me crazy with her demands for milk, love and attention! 🤍
PM for details. Must be prepared to commit bottle feeding.
Looking for the Good! 💚
My #applewatch recorded nearly 16,000 steps yesterday as I moved fences, moved animals and went about my usual “day off” tasks. While setting up hog net to move the sows and piglets onto grass I stopped to watch the goats playing on the rock pile.
THIS is the part I love .. but it doesn’t happen without busting my buns! 💚
Both aspiring farmer's with many ideas for hobbies and projects, Scott and Melissa joined forces in 2015. With four boys between the two of them, they set out to embrace this crazy life; following Scott's motto: "Today is today!"
Scott works full time for the City of Hallowell as Police Chief. Melissa is a Nurse Practitioner at the Richmond Area Health Center.
Scott's interests include composting (everything!), vegetable gardening, metal work, tumbling stones, re-purposing discarded furniture, photography, searching for lost treasure on abandoned properties and collecting rocks and fossils along the river banks of the Kennebec, kayaking, bikes and camping.
Melissa enjoys flower gardens, small craft projects, canning, animal care taking, collecting rocks for gardening / landscape designs, baking, camping and accompanying Scott on river trips or any other adventure he can stir up!
|| Chickens ||
The gateway animal. At first it was just for the joy of collecting fresh eggs at the end of each day. Then came the endeavor to humanely raise chickens for our dinner table.
Currently, we raise Red Rangers for meat, and choose not to medicate the birds we will eat. We feed our meat birds a good-quality, high protein chicken feed, offer plenty of kitchen and garden scraps and the whey leftover from the cheese making process. Since moving to Richmond, we have started working on plans for pastured chicken and will offer a chicken co-op for 2019 (message us for more details!).
Our laying hen flock is quite diverse. Some of our favorites are Araucanas / Ameraucanas, French Black Copper Marans, and Orpingtons. This will be the third year we have hatched out own chicks. Keep an eye on our Instagram and / or pages for pictures of our egg rainbow!
|| Maple Syrup ||
Scott's venture into "sapping" eventually led to the purchase of an evaporator and a passion for small-scale maple syrup making. From mid-February through early-April you can catch a glimpse of wood smoke and white steam pouring from the roof of the sap house, with Scott inside, stoking the fire and watching the sap boil. Bottles feature the "SMACK'S" label, representing "Scott Mac & Kids", the sugary-sweet start-up for Rock Bottom Farm. The kids play an integral role in the collection of hundreds of gallons of sap throughout a season. You can usually find them hanging around the sap house, chopping wood for kindling or throwing snowballs at each other. Each season we produce enough syrup to supply our family for the year, and a little extra to share with friends and family. We hope to continue to grow this part of our homesteading adventure.
|| Goats ||
Goats joined our farm in June of 2016. Melissa had an interest in raising dairy goats, inspired by an undergraduate college term spent in Namibia at the Cheetah Conservation Fund where she worked on a project to promote the use of livestock guarding dogs on rural farms to protect sheep and goats from predators, with the primary focus on preventing the killing of cheetahs. Fast-forward nearly a decade: the opportunity to have goats was within reach, and Scott said "go for it!". We started our herd with two Nigerian Dwarf does from Sunflower Farm in Cumberland. We now have a herd of 14 registered Nigerian Dwarf goats! Kids will be for sale in the spring.
|| On the Horizon ||
We moved our operation to a larger property in fall 2018 after stumbling on a 200-year-old farmhouse with 27 acres of land. We have plans to continue our expansion and would like to introduce a farm stand in the summer of 2019 to offer fresh fruits, vegetables, goat milk products, and eggs to our community. We've got grand ideas, and hope you'll follow along and join us when you see something exciting!
After all, small farms cannot make it without the support of the community!
Rock Bottom Farm is a family farmstead located in Richmond, ME. Raising registered Nigerian dairy goats and kunekune pigs on pasture for pork production.
