I Can Farm..or at least try.

OK, so where was I? To fill you in a couple of details, my mother's then horse racing husband was kicked to the curb and took all of the horses with him. Thank Goodness!

My father was spending quite a bit of time with me a the 3 acre "farm". So, after researching the alpaca farms and finding out they were out of our price range, we opted to go with fiber producing goats. Angora goats produce mohair. So I looked in the local Market Bulletin and found a woman getting rid of 2, a female (doe) and a castrated male (wether). We carried them home in the Jeep Cherokee and of course they peed in there and made the Jeep smell terrible. So I wouldn't suggest hauling goats inside a car.


We got home with them and put them in the barn. Our "farm" was started. From there we began acquiring some more livestock and ended up with another angora goat (a wether), 2 pigs, 2 llamas, a donkey, a wild mustang ( I'll tell you about that in another post), 2 more angora goats (both bucks), 2 angora rabbits, 2 Holstein steers, and 40 or so chickens. We had a real farm going on. It was a pleasure to sit in on the swing and watch all of them together in the pasture.