What is a Girl to Do? FAINT!

Lucy Locket heard that there are now two little baby goats on the farm, besides she and Linus, vying for everyone's attention...What is a girl to do? FAINT thought Lucy...Now that is something those dairy goat babies cannot do, and Linus and I can! We're back in the spotlight with this little trick thought Lucy!  I must run and tell Linus, but before she could tell Linus of her scheme, she FAINTED! 
                                       ...the saga of two miniature fainting goats at Gillis Hill Farm

A Buck and a Doe for Sweet Ellie!

Sweet Ellie gave birth to twins today at Gillis Hill Farm! It was so exciting, especially to one little girl named Caroline! Everyday since Ellie'e due date she has come by the barn to see if Ellie had given birth and I had to tell her, "no" not today, but this day promised to be different! I had errands to run and was not there when Caroline came by the barn, so she peaked in the stall, and there, laying in the straw, was a little baby goat buck. Caroline was beside herself with joy! She ran to the farm house to tell everyone that Ellie had given birth! That is when I got the phone call that I was a goat mama! I could hardly get to the barn fast enough! I arrived just after the birth of the second baby goat, a doe! I am happy that Caroline was the one to find Ellie, in labor, and yet to give birth to a little doe that we named after her! I know one little girl that has baby goats dancing in her dreams and know that her heart yearns to come by and see her little namesake...Until Tomorrow, Cindy

Big and Chunky!

No, I'm not coming out of the stall! 
I am B-I-G, I am C-H-U-N-K-Y,
a little Round, a little PLUMPY, P-L-U-M-P-Y!
There's somethin-something,
Happin' to me...
This goat is kidding, I say a double...
The way she walk, walk
The way she bleat, bleat,
Could be a triple, T-R-I-P-L-E!
When she due? Now-Now!
This girl is B-I-G, This girl is C-H-U-N-K-Y,
a little Round, a little PLUMPY, P-L-U-M-P-Y!

Tune to Madagascar 2: Big And Chunky

Lucy Locket lost her pocket,
Kitty Kitten found it;
Not a penny was there in it,
Only ribbon round it.

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•  MIDI TUNE of Lucy Locket Lost Her Pocket

Sweet Sassy Annie with AnnaBelle on a Stroll

Sassy Annie loves Little AnnaBelle...  

She is so gentle and loving with children! 

Bottle-fed Goat gets a New Home in a Barn and Trys to Escape

This bottle-fed baby goat lived in a home, instead of a barn, and thinks she is a person, not a goat! Now that she has a new home at Gillis Hill farm, in the barn, she is not happy! Here she is trying to fit herself under the barn door to escape and go back home, to a house, with people just like her!  Isn't she cute with her pretty blue eyes?

Sheep Shearing Day at Rising Meadow Farm

Beautiful hand-spun and dyed yarn

 for sale in The Farm Store.  

Roving  

For hand-spinners who don't want to work with the raw wool 

Rising Meadow Farms offers roving for sale.   It is available in white and 

natural-colored Corriedale, several shades of Moorit, 

and Navajo-Churro. 

The Farm Store at Rising Meadow Farm

The Sheep 

at Rising Meadow Farm

on

Shearing Day  

Natural Colored Hand-spun Yarn

Tools

 Handmade Items
 for sale in 
The Farm Store  

Master Blade Shearer: Kevin Ford

Assisted by local shearer: Joy Moore

Soon after Kevin shears the sheep

 at 

Rising Meadow Farm, 

 he’ll head to the Golden Shears International 

Competition in New Zealand.   He’s one of a 

three man and one woman team representing 

 the United States in the sheep shearing competition. 

Go Team USA!  

Joy Moore

Kevin Ford

We had a Great Day at 

Rising Meadow Farm

 on 

Sheep Shearing Day!

    We loved learning about the sheep, meeting new friends,

 eating Lamb Chile for the first time, 

and watching the sheep being sheared by 

Master Blade Shearer Kevin Ford and his assistant Joy.  

Thank you Ron and Ann, owners of 

Rising Meadow Farm 

for the open invitation to share in this event

 on your beautiful farm in Liberty, North Carolina!