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We are a small family farm that we started for our kids. We have always had horses and decided to ex

05/27/2024

We finished our breeding season with our last girl, Merliah. She decided to wait until milking time tonight. She usually greets me at the gate and when I went out she was off on her own cleaning her baby that she had just popped out. Got her moved into a birthing area and laid bedding for them. Gave Merliah grain, hay and water and gave them their space for bonding once we made sure baby nursed. We didn’t have any idea of her due date because we had very naughty boys this year. Another singletonbuck for her (2years in a row) but this one has her blonde color and has so many spots. Full Nubian and ecstatic that we don’t have another Nubian/Alpine cross. Oh and those ears!!! Better pictures to come in the morning.

But now everyone is milked. Bottle babies have had their bottles and off to bed we go to start it all over again a 7am. Luckily it’s a holiday so it’s not 5am like work days!

03/31/2024

Lots of babies up for discussion as well as a few does in milk. The kids want to switch direction with our herd. Alpines are taking over! Have a few more but need pictures.

03/04/2024

I just want to take a minute to thank Carol Peters for always taking the time to help me. Even though she is so busy with her farm, she always takes time out of her day to help and we go to learn when we can. I have learned so much from her over the past 3 years as well as my kids! I wish I could do more for you than I have with my hectic life recently but your amazing heart doesn’t go unnoticed. You have forever impacted our life and we couldn’t have found a better person to help teach us everything there is to know about dairy goats. You are an AMAZING person!

02/28/2024

New kid on the block!!! Single Buck out of Highlight… He looks just like his momma and is 50% Nubian/50% Alpine.

02/17/2024

Meet the girls….

Loving our babies even though they stress me out! We are 50/50 right now boys/girls. The boys have all the color this year.

02/12/2024

Life has been extremely hectic here…. We have downsized quite a bit to only our show girls and the emotional attachments of our OG herd. It’s baby time though. We have 6 babies so far.

Sophia had Nubian buck/doe twins with ears for miles on January 31st

Then yesterday Rylee had her buck/doe twins that are 50% Nubian/ 50% Alpine

Tonight Juniper had Alpine buck/doe twins.

3 more girls to go this season.

We are planning on showing in at least 3 shows this season as well.

06/19/2023

Super busy week this week. Rylee had identical twins buck/doe) last Tuesday. She is the first one raised by us from birth until now to have babies here!!! She turned 2 in February so unfortunate Braxton could not show her this year but he is looking forward to showing her and her daughter next year.

Sidney got her steer yesterday for Lake County 2024 show. She is sticking with her Warrior Cat theme and naming him Nightfall. He currently weighs about 530 lbs.

04/13/2023

Goats went well last night!

Braxton got 3rd in Showmanship for the Jr. Division.

Both Stetson and Braxton showed in the 12-18 month class and Stetson/Juniper got 4th.

Sidney went in thinking she would be dead last because Sophia does not have an udder yet as she has not freshened. She got 8th out of 17. Not to bad and not close to the end!

Oh and to our surprise, Braxton got 3rd on junior skillathon at the end even though we spent all of our time studying for the wrong categories. All of the kids after the skillathon walked out saying that was the hardest!

04/12/2023

Sidney had a great first steer show experience. Very emotional night last night. She has learned so much this year. Now time for goats!

04/08/2023

Bringing back memories!!! Sidney’s steer is all settled in to Lake County Fair. This is her first steer. She has learned so much this year and knows what to change next year. He is pretty stressed but is behaving so well for her!

03/04/2023

Fun Outing for Ms. Starlight this morning.

02/06/2023

New kids on the block. Lol not really. Merliah is the blonde. She is one of the kids new show girls. We also added an Alpine buck (Pinball Wizard) as Stetson has expanded our Nubian herd into Alpines.

02/05/2023

Productive day on the farm!!! Love having my own microscope to do fecals again. Science lab in the kitchen. Great learning tool for the kids… and I don’t have to drive to my amazing mentors house to use hers.

01/19/2023

Hay pile up! Almost time for a new block. I gave them some of the buck’s (and girls with him) hay since they were not eating it fast enough and he still has over half of his left.

And Ms. Juniper going through a growth spurt again. Back end is so much taller than her front. She is almost even when standing on the pallet with her front feet.

01/19/2023

Baby time. These girls are so silly and full of energy.

01/17/2023

Cuteness Overload! They have so much energy!

01/17/2023

Valentine’s Day Gift Boxes- 1 bar of soap (vanilla rose or oatmeal,milk, and honey) heart shape shower sponge, heart shape chocolates, and decor. They will be $20 each.

01/16/2023

The kids and I made Goat Milk Soap just in time for Valentines Day. It is scented with Vanilla Rose. They will be selling each bar for $6. They will also be putting together gift baskets. Pictures to come. Limited Supply.

01/08/2023

More baby pics!

01/08/2023

Twin Girls for 2023, YAY! Edaline did great. From start to finish was less than 45 minutes.

01/08/2023

And we are going to have babies soon! Luckily she held out until we were home for the day! Yay! She is not actively pushing yet but she is very close.

01/05/2023

As we enter baby season, I’m wishing the kids were still homeschooled. First doe is due today and I will be stressing from 8-3 while there is nobody home to check on her. Hopefully she will wait until someone is home or even this weekend would be nice.

12/28/2022

They have devoured this hay block in record timing due to the cold! Hopefully this doesn’t continue!

Edaline will be our first to have babies this year. She is the last of our rescue girls that we started with 2 1/2 years ago. She was in not so great shape nutrition wise and has flourished here. She is now our easiest keeper. This will be her 2nd freshening. She gave us beautiful twins last time. Can’t wait to see her babies this year.

Corona is next on the list. She was just added this year to our herd for the kids to show. This is also her 2nd freshening. Looking forward to her babies as well.

Some of our girls had different plans than us and went into heat a lot later than expected. We were hoping to be done with babies by March as we will be expecting our own new little one in May. We will not be done with babies this year until May😭 for sure because of 2 stubborn girls.

12/17/2022

Stetson is enjoying his new project. He loves his chickens. We were sad that one is a rooster but Stetson has done a good job convincing dad to let him keep one rooster. Maybe he will become a lawyer since he made a good argument.

11/22/2022

The kids have been selling goats milk soap! These are the soaps we have available still. I have been slacking with Facebook recently due to our hectic activity schedule but we finally have a break for a few months. Hopefully will be able to make more scents soon.

Oats and Milk $5
Spiced Pumpkin $3
Lavender/ Erie Night $5
Autumn Leaves $3

11/04/2022

A little late because we have been extremely busy… but Apollo celebrated his 1st birthday on October 18th. Pictures from his first day on our farm @ 8 weeks old weighing 26lbs to now. He towers over his older sister, Whisper.

10/08/2022

Sidney’s done with her first steer weigh in. FireStar weighed 649lbs and did great going through the chutes. We were surprised.

09/30/2022

We made it through the storm okay. All of the animals huddled on our lanai to avoid falling trees in their pastures. We lost quite a few trees some inches away from our fence lines. We are pulling lots of debris off of our electric fence and regular fence. Most of the animals did great. We have 2 that are not doing so hot and treatment has already started. Hopefully they will recover quickly. Some of the pictures we have taken through the storm. And one of our Florida boys bundled up because it’s in the 60’s

09/17/2022

Enjoying their pasture time today! Loving our girls and how they are maturing. We can’t wait for babies this year! Highlight, Corona, Feyre, Sophia, Rylee, River, Rosebud, Cocoa, Edaline, and EllieMae are all on the breeding list this year. A huge jump for us from last year. This will increase our milk supply to make soap. Also hopefully will eliminate most of our milk purchasing.

09/09/2022

Goats in the rainstorm last night decided to take cover on our porch while the steer just hangs out in the rain. Feyre says, “ are you going to let me in the house?” And Juniper says, “my toes can’t get wet!” LOL

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Tavares, FL
32778

Telephone

+15048138136

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https://sites.google.com/view/cecilhawkfarm/home

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