I cannot tell you how much your videos are appreciated. First, it’s heartwarming to see how compassionate and kind you are with all your animals. To know each one by name? So very sweet. They are very lucky to be with you. Secondly, I am recovering from 7 weeks of radiation for breast cancer and am so fatigued I can’t make it outside. After watching this video, I felt I was outside and part of the farm and my spirits were lifted. If you ever wonder whether your videos are important or have an impact……they do! Thank you. I cannot wait for my next virtual visit to your farm. A hug to you and all the lovely goat mamas!
This was just the cutest thing and I loved your commentary. I started laughing when you said “she’s done and so are you” as you helped the baby off the milk stand. So glad I discovered your channel a while back! 🥰🐐
Hello, It's really beautiful to see these beautiful little beasts we had a small sheep farm and it was very blessed and enriching. You with a beautiful place and we see that the goats are good and the love for them. From Quebec and God bless you!
What a beautiful idyll, sunshine, happy mom goats and sugar-sweet baby goats 🌞 I always have to smile when the babies wiggle their tails while drinking,bleating in front of you and treating mom's udder like a punching ball 🙈 I hope that doesn't hurt too much,for the mothers. As with a predator feeding🤣 Everyone wants to get it first 🙂 Your goats are simply magical and beautiful ❤ I wish you and your goats a nice Sunday 🦋 It's already evening with me.
I grew up on a dairy farm (cows). I don’t know much about goats, except they sure are cute and have lots of personality. I had no idea that the babies were fed, what I would call community style, instead of a staying in the field and nursing from its mother. That a lot of goat lifting! I enjoy watching all your goats. Thanks!
Hello guys, Three weeks ago one of my does gave birth to a really tiny baby girl. I named her Ruby Rue, after your Ruby. She is a complete joy. Blessings on your day❤️
My favorite is when they're all running together, and some of them will start running sideways and jumping and kicking their legs like they did when they were little. Makes me laugh every time to see a full size goat do that.
We have probably 100 right now. Maybe more. We're sitting at about 50 does so maybe 50 or more babies. As for the names, I see them every day🤷🏻♂️ kinda like how a teacher learns names. If you see and interact with them every day, they stick with time.
I have so missed your videos 😢I kept looking for more after Littlefoot’s passing but couldn’t find any. Since I have found your channel again, I look forward to so many❤😊
Amazing how your nannies aren't fighting to get to the grain. Mine would be at the front of the feeder and on the stand trying to hit the girl in the head catch. The kids would all be fighting to get on the stand to get milk. It would be complete chaos!
Love your goat farm such a family of goats you have there, each and every one of them have their own personality too making it even more enjoyable for me to watch your videos.
You guys are so awesome 💖 love seeing all your lil babies, makes my day 🥰 wish I could have goats where I live, county won’t allow but I have 3 hens and love them to pieces 🥰💖
The babies are always eager to drink from anyone. If you have mama's trained on a milkstand, then they'll let babies drink while on the stand. They get used to it.
@@woodsidegoatfarm my friend had some expensive show milk goats. She had to milk the moms, transfer the milk & then feed the babies with a bottle. She said it wrecked the mom's teets for showing if they nursed straight off of her. Oh the life of a state fair champion!😂
It cracks me up to see the babies butt the mamas before they even latch on. Impatient little rascals - it reminds me of my days on the farm. You are doing an awesome job and I can't wait to see the new babies when they're born.
You need a feeding trough for all those goats that way they all can get food on both sides eating that way they all get just my opinion but their all so sweet don’t know how you remember all those names❤️
I love the way you have names for all your goats, shows you love all of them and it shows. I grew up herding sheep on the Navajo Reservation and I had a favorite, she had blue (lite) color and named her blue goat.
There are a few different reasons. The way we have things set up though, and with the quantity, the babies end up more social when they arent reliant on their mama at their side. If we had fewer babies, we could put mama and babies in a smaller pen, but we don't need to. They do just fine separate. And this way, the mama's don't get shut into a smaller pen. Doing so wouldn't kill them, but it's nice to have them out with the herd if they can be.
Can you put the babies and moms with the bucks? I have a baby that was born the first week of May and the mom and buck were always together but I separated them because she was feeding the baby but baby which is a she is eating regular food and at time does drink from mom but I would love to put them together..Can I put them all together??
There are several reasons: 1) tameness, you get tamer goats if they aren't raised by mom. This is important not just for the does, who might go to milk farms, but especially bucks who if staying inact can be very aggressive during breeding season. Having the babies become calm and relaxed around people makes far easier and safer to handle. 2) health of the babies. If the mom's go out to large pastures it can be hard to make sure the babies are getting enough to eat and keep track of their general health and welfare. Like with many other animals, baby goats can go down hill with illness very quickly, and it's easier to catch these things if they're in a smaller pen where they can be watched easier. There are other reasons too, depending on what kind of farm it is. But this doesn't cause any harm to the animals, so it's not really an issue.
The babies stay healthier, it's good for them socially, and it helps us keep an eye on them when we have to get our hands on every baby multiple times a day.
I have to comment again 😊 I think I've probably watched this video for the tenth time because it just makes my heart beat faster .It's just too nice with you. I always have a laughing and a crying eye because it would be my greatest wish to visit your farm once. I think that would totally change my life....between all the charming goats and goats kids ❤ But unfortunately I live in Germany and it will probably only be a dream 😔 How I would like to have friends from America...The people who visit your farm can really count themselves lucky 🙂 unfortunately I only have your beautiful videos 🦋 🐐 🐐 🦋You are so great and friendly people and your animals love you ❤
I'm sorry we cant have you out sometime😕 I'm so glad you're enjoying them so much. I hope the videos can continue to make a difference for you:) Sind sie eigentlich deutscherin? Ich wohnte zwei Jahre dort, und hab es sehr gemocht. Ich wurde sehr gern mal zurück gehen.
@@woodsidegoatfarm Thank you for your message. Yes I am German and live in Schleswig - Holstein near Hamburg 🙂 I find America just so fascinating ❤ I look forward to further videos from you,because they fill my heart and soul with joy....Thank you 🦋
I just love you guys so much I really do. And I would love to come stay with yall and vist with the babies I just had an stroke2years ago and now I can't do anything anymore but I can watch your video s and comment on the them
Yeah, the mama's don't like it. If they're really full, they wont feed them on their own because it hurts too much. It's just frustrating, because they almost never actually need to do it. They do it to get more milk in the teat, and to get every last drop. But if I just put them on a mom that's bursting full, all they need to do is put their lips on there and they're getting a mouth full of milk. No need to lift that poor mama's back legs off the ground by punching a teat that's so full, it feels like a pumped up basketball😂 JUST DRINK. And then they're sad when mom doesn't want to feed them.. little dummies.
I don’t know anything about goat farming so I don’t quite understand what’s going on. Could you give us a higher-level view of your operation? This is a petting zoo, not a dairy operation, but the kids appear to be kept separate from the nannies. They sleep together in the barn, presumably for protection. Nannies wouldn’t protect their kids if they were all in a secure enclosure together overnight? Even during the day the kids are penned in and only see the nannies at feeding time, and the nannies have to be on a stanchion to feed them. And they feed any kid you give them. Except you said that this was a special deal just for the kids who need extra and the nannies who have extra. That mostly the kids just nurse when they’re with their moms. But they aren’t with their moms???
We keep the kids separate for a number of reasons. One of the big ones being that they're much easier to keep track of when the babies are all kept under our watchful eye. It's easier to see when they're sick, or not eating. If they had free range of the 5 acres with mom, doing headcounts, and healthchecks on the babies becomes more challenging. And as for your last question, they do feed on their own when they see their mama's. They aren't always with their mama's, but when I let the mama's in the feed their babies the four times a day, they are. That's when I put the babies that need it up on the milk stand on a mom with some extra milk. The babies that don't need help have about a half an hour to get what they need.
It really doesn't have much of a smell. I'd say most of their stink is from urine, but if they're well kept, then it's not bad at all. You can smell cows from quite a distance, but i think you could be in the field with our goats with your eyes closed and ears plugged, and not even know you were on a farm. That may also be because I'm used to it😂 The same can't be said for bucks though. They're real stenchy.
