Technically, it started with an injured horse that needed a barn buddy while he healed on stall rest for months. Yes, I brought Parrish Farms API Dream Girl *M home to keep my horse company. It seemed like a win/win situation to me. Blitz (the horse) would be calmer and I finally had an excuse to bring a goat home. Of course, this plan backfired and Blitz very quickly decided that he hated dream. So they were separated.
As you would imagine, Dream was now lonely and I couldn't have that! A friend of mine had a doe that she let me borrow until I found Dream the perfect buddy to keep her company until she kidded (she was bred before being transported to my farm).
A month later I found Parrish Farms PC Grace as a 2 y/o doe in milk. I didnt really know what I was doing or if I even liked goat milk but I had to have her. It would be with this doe that I would attend my first shows with, navigate my first year on DHI with, experience my first sales with, and whose milk would help to produce the first batches of soap and lotion that I would make. Thus became Budderball Farms!
Shortly after realizing my new love for crafting soaps and lotions, I decided I needed more milk. It was an easy decision for me to pick Lamanchas as the standard breed that I wanted to add to Budderball Farms. I adored their docile but quirky personalities and the lack of "normal" ears made me love them even more. Akins Farms Tacora 1*M and Lucky*Star's RA Demi 5*M would join the herd as my first earless wonder goats the following spring.
Demi would go on to be the first doe I showed to a CH leg and attended linear appraisals with. She was my first standard doe to kid as well as the first doe to kid on the new farm in 2018. She has always run the show around here and was quickly dubbed The Crabby Gatekeeper. Demi's world has always revolved around making, baking, or raising babies. If it didnt fall in any of those categories, she wasnt interested. She doesnt know it yet, but she's being retired from the breeding plans this year after giving me one last doe kid to retain this past March. She will never know how much she has taught me and the impact shes had on my herd. I hope she's around to boss everyone around for years to come.
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