From Cute and Cuddly to Dirty Stinky Beast Every autumn, the goats get ready for breeding season. The cover themselves in the smell the lady goats like… Urine! They pee all over their face and front legs. Bucks become Dirty Stinky Beasts in Rut! Here are our other recent posts about Rut – Hole in… Continue reading Dirty Stinky Beast In RUT
Category: Our Animals
Hole in the New Fence
Goats in rut had a fight thru the fence. Two bloodied bucklings and a hole in the fence.
Kiko Breeding Season
It is the start of Kiko Breeding Season at Titan Ranch. It is time to allow our mature does in with our chosen buck, EZK Pay to Play. We waited until November 1 so that the babies will be born in April, after the worst of the cold weather. The gestational period is 5 months.… Continue reading Kiko Breeding Season
Goodbye Roosters
We need to say Goodbye to 4 Roosters I have mentioned before, that we had way too many roosters… Six roosters to 4 hens is not a good ratio. It was time to process some roosters and get them in the Freezer. We kept Big Red, (AKA Smeyers) and one of the Light Sussex Roosters.… Continue reading Goodbye Roosters
Meet Sheba
We adopted Sheba from SCARS rescue
Poop Boards
And Other Necessities for Your Chicken Coop When you are building a chicken coop there are some things that you NEED to make your life easier. These are some “Must Have” Chicken Coop Hacks. We all want to have a clean and healthy chicken coop, without spending all our time cleaning chicken poop. These hacks… Continue reading Poop Boards
Only need two bucks…
I love my bucklings, all three of them. However, I can only justify keeping two. Although it might break my heart, Loki is for sale. Loki will make a wonderful herdsire for another herd of ladies. I can’t use him for breeding as he is too closely related to my does. TGP Titan Loki Loki… Continue reading Only need two bucks…
Our Does – Update
The Girls We now have 3 adult Kiko Does, and two Doelings. Juniper and Jolene are still nursing the doelings occasionally and getting back into condition as they reduce the amount of milk production. Bat Chick, as the new member of the herd, it still finding her place. She is out grazing with the herd… Continue reading Our Does – Update
Picking up new Goats
I went on a road trip this week to pick up two new goats. Our Herd needs some new genetics for breeding. It was quite the adventure. We Need Some New Blood… In order to breed our momma goats for next year, I need a new buck. Our two boys are the kids of our… Continue reading Picking up new Goats
TOO Many ROOSTERS!
We have too many Roosters and not enough hens