It's a Goat's Life at Gillis Hill Farm!

Where does a Sheep Take a Bath? In a Baaaath Tub!

I am 100% wool!
Wash and rinse me gently by hand
in lukewarm water,
Squeeze me out with towels, gently please!
Do not tumble me dry,
allow me to air dry naturally.
Put on my sheep cover to keep my wool clean
until Sheep Shearing Day!

                                                    

                              

Chloe gets a stylish up-do after

 Mylena gives her a baaaaaath!

Farm Animal Joke

Where do sheep go to get 

their hair cut?   

To the Baaaaaaaarber Shoppe!

First Freshener

Fiona, a feisty little goat visiting our farm from End-O-Way Farm.  She is a Nigerian Dwarf dairy goat and a first freshener who came to teach me a thing a two about milking a goat!  Together we are learning!  She is learning how to stand still on the milk stand, and me, I am learning how to milk a kicking crazy dwarf goat that knows how to bust a move when I am trying to milk her.  She is pretending to be innocent and sweet looking  in this picture.

Introducing Strike and Spare, Indian Runner Ducks at Gillis Hill Farm!

Listening in on a duck conversation...
What are they calling us?  I think she just called me "Strike" and I think she called you "Spare."  Thanks to James and Caroline Gillis for coming up with our new names!   Now we are Strike and Spare...They think we are bowling pins with legs!  Who would have guessed? 

Happy Birthday America!

We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.                                                                                                                   The Preamble to the United States Constitution

Fresh Goats Milk

Karen Stanger from End-O-Way Farm  gave Katerina, Mylena, and I  hand milking lessons and then we were on our own...This is the result!  Not bad for first time hand milking maidens Katerina and Mylena!    Poor Ellie, she did not eat on the stand, she kept bleating, and looking back at us.  On Karen's farm, all her goats stood on the stand and ate, no bleating!   I know we were not doing everything right on our own, but we did have fun doing it!  Poor Ellie will have to endure until the girls get the hang of hand milking a goat.