Laffing Goat Farm and Wetland Preserve

09/05/2025

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08/31/2025

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08/31/2025

One of our barn kitties, Carlyle, we haven't seen for couple of days. He is the only one of the six that frequently goes beyond the end of our driveway several times a day and comes running back when he wants company or food. He doesn't kill birds he just chases things that are on the ground. He is gray with white muzzle and paws. He is NOT lost or stray, he is neutered, vetted and ear tipped, no chip. He lives on our 5 acre property. Please do not try to catch or trap him, leave him alone and he'll come home to our barn where he is well fed and cared for. His brothers miss him as do we. I don't have a photo of him. 91st Ave SE across from Fred Meyer.

He has a very soft raspy voice, he'll come right up to you and cry but it looks and sounds like he is hissing: he is not. You can't pet him or pick him up, he's not a lap kitty. He likes to get into garages and spaces you leave open like trailers and even my upstairs sewing loft if I have the door open.

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08/28/2025

Cooking off a bushel of fresh picked apples from my little orchard, to make I think applesauce. Might strain out enough juice to add to my huckleberries for huckleberry jelly since I didn't get to those soon enough to pick a full batch: apples make a good neutral extender. I'll get to my berries quicker next year. I'll get to blackberry picking this week and just freeze those (as I did the huckleberries) to process later when I have more jars.
If you have 8 ounce half pint jars (I don't need lids or bands) to donate to the cause feel free to drop them off. I use 16 ounce (pints) for my tomatoes and applesauce but I have plenty of those.
If you need free apples or pears for your animals we have plenty for you to pick, free just come and get them. Bring your own boxes, LMK you are coming just cos the cameras and alarms go crazy when there are ppl in the yard :)

08/27/2025

I salvaged the last of my beautiful black plums just before they would be too ripe to process. Some were very soft but still good and of course some were still plump and firm. I wasn't paying attention this year and almost missed them, as they ripen a few weeks after the shiro/ume plums (which I processed as many as I needed weeks ago and gave a bunch away and still have a tree full of overripe now unuseable shiro plums on the tree). Whole lotta both kinds on the ground, I guess the deer will feast. I feel a little bad that I missed them but still what I had is more than enough to make 16 jellies (more than I'll ever eat or sell). I'd have invited folks to pick them if I noticed sooner they were ready -- the black ones are harder to see in the tree from the driveway unlike the shiro I can see from the house. The shiro I picked this year just made some tasty hot spicy dipping sauce. Those I should have picked more and froze them, but time was tight and there is always next year.
I cooked the black ones up last night and straining them today. Still need to add sugar and pectin to can it into jellies, later today.

08/26/2025

Many many eggs available besides what's in the porch refrigerators, the gals have finally got their groove back. I'm hard boiling 10 of the wee tiny ones for my snacking (definitely a comfort food snack) and then a bunch more will be Farmhouse Scramble for dinner tonite (because I haven't quite got the knack to make pretty omelettes, so loaded scramble it shall be).
Come and get eggs, $5 a dozen for chicken or duck (discount this week) and $5 for 3 ginormous GOOSE eggs (I have three boxes available, 2 in the fridge and another in the house), Cordelia the goose only lays eggs every other day for about 3-4 months a year so they won't last long.

08/20/2025

This is not a factory farm, nor is it a business of any kind.
Also we are not a petting zoo and are not "open to the public", this is our HOME.
It is a hobby farm. It's a somewhat expensive hobby :)
The animals here are all PETS. At any given time I have a couple of dozen chickens and maybe a dozen ducks. I used to keep zebra finches, I loved their sweet soft peeps. They always laid and hatched eggs and I loved watching them grow from hatchlings to birdies, until I learned the hard way that our PNW nights are too cold for keeping them outside on a patio. That was a ghastly discovery for sure. I could not keep them indoors due to my asthma. SO, now I have hardy chickens and ducks that thrive in our climate.
I love watching my birds flock and socialize and set up their own little cliques. I have always preferred animals to people: their rules of engagement are always crystal clear to me, unlike humans.

The byproduct of having any female birds is they lay eggs. What I provide to you are the extra eggs that are, as the Brits put it, "surplus to requirement". I love eggs for dinner with ham, fried in a sandwich, hard boiled as snacks, devilled, scrambled, SSU, or soft boiled with soldiers to dip in them.
On an extremely good day my birds might provide as many as a dozen eggs, on an average day between June and October it is more likely to be between 4-8 eggs. From October to June I'm lucky to get 1-2 if any at all. I can't provide mass quantities as a factory farm with hundreds to thousands of birds can do. And I wouldn't want to. My birds are all individuals, many with names, and are provided with better care and feed than any factory farm can ever do. The quality of their eggs shows it. It's not about money. These are my babies.
The cost to keep and care for these birds far exceeds what I charge for eggs. As best it offsets a small portion of their feed. I sometimes give eggs away when I think someone needs them. Same with the jellies. My way of giving back to my community. I'll likely to keep it up another 5-10 years before I decide it is time to downsize, but that's a ways off I hope.

SO if you're looking for someone to provide you with tens of dozens of super cheap eggs weekly, it ain't us. I post daily what I have available to share in the pinned post above, which is usually anywhere from zero to at most 4-5 dozen chicken eggs and maybe a couple dozen duck eggs. Always dated for freshness and never more than a week old. In the heat of summer I MIGHT have goose eggs as Cordie lays about 3 ginormous eggs a WEEK, but for only a few weeks each year while she is still young.
I appreciate each and every one of you for helping keep this hobby fun and somewhat sustainable. I love showing your kids the giant goldfish in our pond and letting them give the goats a cookie or two, and learning your names (although I have never been good at remembering names, I do try).

08/19/2025

UM, it seems strange and a little scary that I have to explain this at all, apparently this is important to say here:
This is my HOME where I live and sleep. I don't publish this, my HOME address, publicly on Facebook for a good reason. Do you post your home address on social media??
IF someone asks you about eggs or anything else, PLEASE do not just give out my home address to random strangers that I do not know. Even worse if even YOU don't actually know them. Refer them to this page, or to my email [email protected], and allow ME to decide with whom to share my home address or other personal information. People who buy my eggs and hire me for sewing projects are friends or people who have communicated directly with me in email or messenger. I can then check them out before deciding what if any information to give them. It's common courtesy besides being basic safety every teenager is supposed to understand.
MOST people are on the up&up, sure, but I have definitely had several creepers: a whole group of them wandering around in my backyard, opening the goat and chicken enclosures where NO ONE is allowed to go without us, discovered when we came home from shopping, or another one wandering around in our wetland uninvited and then cursing at me for asking them to leave MY property (thank the gods for our cameras and alarms that alert us).
Someone said "there's no other way to find you" -- that is the whole point. If someone needs to "find me" they MUST communicate with me first, I really do not want unknown random strangers showing up at my home uninvited. Would YOU??
I know each and every one of you, I recognize you on sight, your kids, your partner, your car. Some I even have learned to connect your name to your face over time (even the ones I could not pronounce without asking you). But every one of you I have personally communicated with before giving you my address.
I love having a farm, and having enough to be able to share and offset a tiny bit of the cost. I will draw a line at sacrificing safety and privacy. I know you understand.
This also applies to those of you to whom I have given my private landline phone number. It is not a business phone, it is private and I trust you not to share it without asking first.

08/15/2025

Jams are here

08/13/2025

goose vs duck and chicken eggs Goose eggs 3 for $5

08/13/2025

GOOSE EGGS $5 for three (they are huge) and plenty of chicken and duck eggs as well.
Goose eggs are mild tasting. closer to chicken than duck. I tend to scramble these as they are a bit large for soldiers & eggs (and I wouldn't know how to time them, 3 min for chicken eggs, 4 for duck egg and ??? for a goose egg to keep the yolk liquid but warm).

08/12/2025

Canning a small batch of GERMAN plum butter (Pflaumenmus), will be ready this week. It differs from Dutch plum butter in that instead of cloves it has a bit of vanilla. I grew up loving Dutch apple butter and Dutch plum butter, very spicy wit lots of cloves and cinnamon and allspice with brown sugar. Some people however prefer a less spicy plum butter, and that is pflaumenmus (pronounce flow-men-moose, with the "flow" part rhyming with cow). Still sweet and plummy and rich. You will love it!
I have a bunch of halves pitted wild plums I plan to can intact with a light syrup to cover them. They're a sweeter variety than I used for the butter. Maybe in pint jars (jams and butters go in 8oz half pints). Tomorrow likely. Kinda hot today (although it's still cooler in my kitchen than outside).

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