The Capra Farm Goat Rescue

11/23/2022

Bo Peep, the goat we didn’t know we needed. She is an Angora goat, beautiful and ridiculously fluffy. Bo Peep was one of 5 goats that were rehomed and renamed in our largest single adoption ever. She is not very friendly yet, but we are working on that with snacks. She gets along great with the rest of the herd and has settled in quite nicely.

11/02/2022

Zuko, our oldest & largest goat is doing his part for the fall clean up here at The Capra Farm Goat Rescue. He is rather mild mannered, for a goat, and likes to eat without fighting. When he's topping 200 pounds, we agree!

10/21/2022

Billy is an Oberhasli mix and half -brother to Frannie. These two are another pair that we re-homed from a neighbor. Billy and Frannie were both bottle fed as babies and are ridiculously friendly. If Billy doesn’t get enough attention, he has been known to give a little Goat Tap to let you know he wants more scratches.
Billy is a Very Helpful goat regardless of the project. Here we see him with work gloves on. Safety first!!

10/20/2022

Bandit is an Alpine mix and is a re-homed goats from one of our neighbors. He wasn’t very social to us at first, but handfuls of sunflowers seeds brought him around. When you enter the pen nowadays, he’s one of the Official Greeters. If you’re not bringing snacks, he’ll still take a petting.

10/19/2022

Odin! Balders brother. Of the four baby goats he's the most mellow. Of course for a Nubian that still puts him at 11 on a regular goat scale. Once the sun came out he and his brother spent the day in their temporary pen out in the grass.

10/18/2022

Balder is one of two Nubians bought from JDF Acres. They were Michelle Yourth birthday present this year. A month ago, Balder got into a fight with a hog fence and broke his leg in two places. The first cast he had was one with pins in it to keep his leg in place. The new cast, which he got last week, stays on for 2 weeks as he finishes healing. Balder is confined to a smaller pen in the barn as well as a small pen we constructed outside for him outside so he can still graze and get some sunshine.
As I was running chores in the ATV he was complaining loudly. So I pulled over so he could have his first driving lesson.

10/17/2022

Pearl. The eldest of Dory’s triplets. The goat with the perfect eyebrows. Despite being one of our shortest goats, she is one of our best jumpers. One of her daring escape plans involved a piece of concrete that was about a foot tall. She ran at the fence full speed, hopped on the concrete and then right over the fence. I swear she bleated “PARKOUR!!” as she flew gracefully over the fence, legs tucked up tight, like a graceful fluffy cloud.

10/16/2022

Nemo was originally named, along with his siblings, after Pixar characters since their mother was named Dory. As he got older and bigger and still wanted to be a lap goat, we extended his name to “Nemo Pettin”. He is the middle child and thus, needs the most attention. It doesn’t matter that they were all born within 30 minutes of each other.

10/13/2022

Big Mouth Bailey, the youngest of the triplets. As the youngest, she likes to be ‘herd’. Their mother, Dory, passed away suddenly when they were 6 weeks old, so Anna took over as surrogate mom. The triplets were bottle fed from then on as Anna didn’t have any milk. The triplets live in the pen with the rest of the herd while Anna sleeps in the barn due to her frostbitten legs. When Anna comes out of the barn on sunny days, all three yell excitedly and run over to her for cuddles and fighting. Since their mother was named Dory, the triplets are named after characters from Finding Dory.

10/13/2022

10/11/2022

Arwen & Eowyn are our two Great Pyrenees that we got from Wakatomica Creek Farm. These sisters are a bonded pair and completely inseparable. They spend their days joyously barking at everything and chewing on each other. Even when they are running at full speed across a field they try to bite and trip each other. As the protectors of the herd, they are named after two strong female warriors from the Lord of the Rings.

10/10/2022

Rosie
Rosie is a Boer goat and small for her breed. She is the definition of Tiny But Mighty, she will fight any goat regardless of size. This attitude is why we named her after Rosie Gamgee, wife of Samwise, from the Lord of the Rings novels. Rosie is too tiny to kid safely so we agreed to take her in from one of our friends who is a Boer goat breeder.