Tiny Hill Farm

Here’s a quick farm update! Iris kidded last week with a single buckling. So that brings our final kid count to 16. 8 does and 8 bucks. The winner of the “Guess How Many Kids, Win Some Stuff” contest is Diana Samaras-Fincher with her guess of 8 Does and 7 bucks. We still have tons of chicks hatching each week, and many chicks available for sale. We’ll have Bourbon red turkey poults for sale in a few weeks, so get your reservations in soon if you would like some. We’ll have many more Nigerian dwarf wether goat kids available for sale this week. Let us know if you are interested. Plus, we have plenty of raw goat milk, organic chicken eggs for eating, and organic fertile hatching eggs for sale. Plus a few goose eggs too. Thanks for supporting local agriculture!

Our total kid count so far is now 15. 7 boys and 8 girls. We are still waiting for one more doe to kid. We now have several adorable Nigerian dwarf pet wether goats for sale. You can see pictures of them on our “Available Goats” page. Please contact us if you might be interested. We also have plenty of chicks available for sale, and more hatching each week. We’ve also got organic fertilized hatching eggs, as well as organic table eggs for eating too. New this year we also have organic goose eggs for sale. They are perfect for eating, great for baking, and are awesome for crafting. Contact us if you are interested. Thanks!

Here are Jill’s new babies! She had quadruplets. Two boys and two girls. That brings the total kid count to 7. 4 boys 3 girls. We still have 5 more does left to kid.

Varla kidded very early this morning. Two boys! They are doing great. So far this puts our 2012 kid total at 2 bucks 1 doe. We have 7 more does left to kid, and it looks like Jill will hopefully kid today.

Check out our new link to the Still Waters Farm blog. Johanna is an awesome homeschooling neighbor who bought 3 goats from us last year. The first of her three does kidded last week. You can check out her farm’s blog to see pictures of the new baby, Faye.

Check out our “Available Poultry” page for an updated list of the baby poultry we have for sale. We have silkies! Still no new baby goats, but we will post pictures as soon as they are born.

Summer kidded this afternoon with a singleton doeling. She’s our first kid of 2012.

It’s time of the year again for our annual “Guess How Many Goats and Win a Prize Contest”. Let us know how many kids you think will be born here this year, and how many will be bucks or does. Whoever is the closest wins your choice of either 2 dozen eggs and a quart of milk or 3 bantam chicks or 3 standard ducklings. Let us know your guess either as a comment  or in an email. We will announce the winner at the end of kidding season. Here are a few hints: we have 8 does due to kid. Last year we had 9 does kid, and 19 babies (5 does/14 bucks). Hopefully we will have more girls this year! Here’s a picture of the kidding pen all set up and ready for the action to begin. Thanks to Janell for the new “goat luck charm” to hang from the pen.

We have several bantam chicks available for sale. Hatched on 2/10/12. You can find more information about them by clicking on our “Available Poultry” page. Our new hatching schedule is also posted on that page. Check out what we’ve got hatching and when, and reserve your own baby poultry with us. Not only are our chicks healthier and better looking than hatchery birds, but since you won’t pay to get them shipped, they are also cheaper!

We’ve outgrown the two small incubators we used for hatching chicks and turkey poults last year. So we got a new, much bigger incubator. What’s growing in it right now? We’ve got bantam chicks due to hatch late next week, and call ducks and a goose egg (thanks to Maple Grove Farm!) due the end of the month. All of the chicks and some of the waterfowl will be available for sale after hatching, so let us know if you might be interested in some baby poultry. We’re also interested in buying purebred fertile hatching eggs from anyone who has them available, and we can also lease incubator space to those who need it. Let us know, thanks!

Every year we give calendars of pictures of our adorable baby animals as gifts to friends, neighbors, and family members. Due to the extreme popularity of our calendar this year, we have decided to offer it for sale to everyone. You can find our 2012 calendar here:
Extreme Cuteness Calendar