Thistlewood Acres

02/22/2025

When you ask for a goat house addition as your Valentine's Day gift....getting closer! Thanks, Todd Turner The girls will love it as much as I do!

02/16/2025

The countdown is on! Exciting, nerve wracking, and sleepless days are quickly approaching.

Our first Lamancha kids are expecting to hit the ground here!

Our breeding plans were more spread out than I had planned, due to having to switch things up when our new junior buck didn't figure out his job until recently. I did just breed him to a doe for summer babies 🥴, but haven't confirmed her yet. I'll save that post for a future date after ultrasounding her.

02/01/2025

We got some babies! I am so glad Ashley Pye was in town and got to come out and see her newest kids at Coal Creek Acres ! Coal Creek Acres PaintedCanvas kidded with 1 doeling, 2 bucklings (1 DOA). Now we are just waiting on Canvas' mama to release her hostages!

Thanks for sharing your goats with us, Ashley!

01/30/2025

When you're the stand-in Goat Midwife for your friend's goats, you start to get extra worried when things aren't going on time. Where are the babies, girls???!

01/10/2025

The goats weren't sure what to make of the snow this morning. Everyone decided it was worth it to brave it to eat, except those two bucks!

01/04/2025

Mr Thistlewood Acres is working hard to add a covered deck (turned enclosed addition) for the doe hut. Trying to beat the cold weather, and looking forward to using it to help separate kids once our kidding season starts. Snow White and Anna had to help, too!

12/17/2024

We got our first goats in February 2020, and were just going to have 2 pet does. One of them ended up having a congenital defect, so the breeder gave us our third goat...a 'replacement doe.' But then I needed to get a doeling from some stronger show lines, and Olive came along. A friend needed a ride to pick up a Lamancha doeling, and that breeder gave us such a great 'deal' and that's how Lamanchas found their way to Thistlewood. Then Tessa wanted her own doeling to work with for Showmanship. And so we went from 2 to 19. The goats bring me a lot of happiness. The hardwork that comes with them, and sometimes heartache, always seem to be worth it to me. They are my distraction from the tough things in life, my social outlet, my reason to continuously learn new things, my reason to get outside, to do physical work, and to push myself towards goals. My kids see me do these things, and they don't always want to be out there with me, but that's okay.

I am often reminded that we 'were just supposed to have two!', but ya know...things happen!

We listen and we don't judge

Deep South Ranch Long Terry Farms- LT Farms

We listen and we don’t judge.

I got my first goats 11 years ago. I didn’t want my human kids on formula so started buying raw goat milk. That got expensive and I knew with this reasoning I might be able to convince my husband to get goats. There was some begging involved but I convinced him to get 3 goats for our backyard. Then I learned you could show them! Naturally we needed a real farm with a barn. So we moved while I was 8 months pregnant. 40 goats later here I am. And yes I still have a husband. I do try to stay at 40! How about you?!

12/15/2024

Sweet, stinky boys! Whimsy Oak LL Revelation and Here Be Goats Venti Macchiatto

11/06/2024

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11/04/2024

Well, finally! I was wishing for the day when I would catch a doe in heat and actually breed her to the planned buck. For whatever reason, this breeding season has been tricky. Well, take a step further and have a friend's bucks temporarily stay here and have a full on buckscapade with 8 bucks loose with all the does (Lamanchas and Nigerians included).

It's been a lot of work and time testing/ultrasounding/luting to clean up that mess. But, we do now have some confirmed intentional breedings!!

Now to get everyone back on track to finish our plans!

10/25/2024

Why is there always one extra difficult one?!

Just trying to ultrasound her, and she is the biggest drama queen.

10/24/2024

What's your favorite thing or things to can?

My favorites are spiced figs, apple butter, stewed tomatoes, zucchini relish, pickled okra, and I'd like to retry a batch of giardinara salad (it wasn't crispy enough for me last time).

10/14/2024

Waking up my sourdough starter!

I have been working hard to lose weight, and with the heat during the summer, I wasn't into baking. BUT, when a friend brings you some lovely French butter straight off the plane from Paris, you must have fresh bread! ❤

09/28/2024

We know we were very fortunate to avoid what could've been after Helene's Wrath. We spent hours doing things to prepare for that storm, knowing that we could have been in her direct path. We had a little bit of flooding in our basement, some debris down, but very minor in comparison to so many. Our animals sure are happy to be out helping clean up debris in sunshine and blue skies.

Our hearts go out to those that were hit much harder. I know of several farms in North Georgia, Tennessee, and North Carolina that are still assessing and processing everything that happened. We send our thoughts and prayers to the communities that will be rebuilding for the forseeable future.