Thanks for visiting The Year of the Goat! We've got a new site for our homestead, Ten Apple Farm, and for our new book, Living With Goats. We're leaving our Year of the Goat adventures and information archived here, but are now posting regularly to the new site and blog, Tenapplefarm.com : Living With Goats

Up until the day it happened we really weren't 100% sure that either of our does were actually pregnant. Flyrod just didn't look big enough, and Chansonetta was big, for sure, but then, being half Boer, she's a big girl to begin with. Flyrod's due date came and went, but then this morning, I get a call from Margaret at my office, saying, "Flyrod's in labor, get home quick!" I drive home as fast as I safely can, with intermittent calls from Margaret in the barn giving me a play by play: "she's pushing!", "there's something coming out!", "I can see the head!" and then finally when I'm about 5 minutes from the house, "It's out!" Flyrod's kid, turned out to be a boy weighing 9 lbs, 1oz. We're holding off naming to make sure he makes it, because to be honest, we're not sure what we're going to do with another boy goat. Joshua and Percival, our 2 wethers, are enough for now. For more pictures of the new goat see below.

On April 29 we welcomed the newest addition to the Hathaway Schatz clan, our second daughter, Beatrice Amelia Hathaway Schatz. For more photos of Bebe's arrival and homecoming, see below.