Twin Willows Farm will be hosting our first annual Open House event March 15, 2014 from 9am-5pm at the farm in Logansport, Indiana.  This event is geared towards beginning goat keepers, and 4H dairy goat projects.  The open house is free to attend and we will have clinics and demonstrations running every hour on the hour.  Visit the event page to the left for more information, and to request tickets to this free event.

What:     1st Annual Twin Willows Farm
                Spring Open House
Where:   637 N CR 400 W Logansport, Indiana
When:     March 15, 2014   9am-5pm

Schedule

  9:00 a.m.     Bottle Feeding Kids

10:00 a.m.     Milking Demonstration

11:00 a.m.     Hoof Care Demonstration

12:00 p.m.     Goat Cheese Demonstration

  1:00 p.m.     Goat Milk Lotion Demonstration

  2:00 p.m.     Goat Confirmation Clinic

  3:00 p.m.     Showmanship Basics

  4:00 p.m.     Tattooing Demonstration

Gypsy Moon MO Starbuck has come home to Twin Willows.  Starbuck is the 3 year old progeny of CH Rosasharn BB Chocolate Moose and Rosasharn SS Unique. The udder genetics on this guy are tremendous, and we have his first daughter due to freshen at Christmas. =)

Along with the return of Starbuck, we have added a sweet little red doe to our herd.  Sage-Acres SHO Lucki N Love is the progeny of Sandy Hollow UK Hickory Oak and Sage-Acres DOS Taboo.  She is showing nice spring of rib, smooth blending throughout, and very nice natural width between the hocks for her tender age of nearly 8 months. We spotted her at a friend's farm and just loved her. Here are some pictures of her from earlier this year on another farm.

I apologize for being so behind on updates...again. I have several things to announce, so I will post individual updates to keep it as organized as possible.  First...show results...

We attended the 2nd Annual Rutfest and 1st Annual Kidding Around Classic in Washington, Indiana on September 21st & 22nd.  What a great show!  Kudos to Ben and Kate Helms of Helmstead Minis for organizing this great show.  We had tons of fun, and our goaties did pretty well. There was a great number of Nigerians who showed.

Twin Willows AM Baron von Brio
1st (x2) and Grand Champion Junior Buck (x1)

Helmstead Minis FF Scorch
2nd (x1) 3rd (x1)

Gypsy Moon CM Ain't Misbehavin
1st (x1) 2nd (x1)

Jasper Pine EP Majestic
1st (x1)

Twin Willows TIO Bellissima
1st (x1) 2nd (x1)

Twin Willows TIO Belle Aire
2nd (x1)

Gypsy Moon CM Airess E'lan
2nd (x1)

Gypsy Moon SD Airianna
2nd (x1)

This past weekend we attended the 2nd Annual National Goat Expo in Bloomington, Illinois. This was a fun show, albeit exhausting. We brought some juniors and some bucks and entered them into four ADGA rings.  Here are the complete results and some pictures from that show.

Junior Does
Twin Willows SB Ballerina
3/4, 4/4, 3/4, 4/4

Twin Willows TIO Belle Aire
2/4, 4/4, 1/4, 3/4

Twin Willows TIO Bellissima
5/10, 6/10, 6/11, 4/11

Jasper Pine EP Majestic
3/11, 5/11, 9/10, 9/10

Twin Willows SB American Honey
3/6, 5/6, 5/5, 5/5

Twin Willows AM Betina D'Gatto
1/10, 1/10, 1/11, 6/11

Bucks
Twin Willows AM Baron von Brio
2/3, 1/3, 2/3, 1/3

Parrish Farms AA Dionysus
3/3, 3/3, 3/3, 3/3

Gypsy Moon CM Ain't Misbehavin
3/8, 4/8, 3/5, 3/5

Helmstead Minis FF Scorch
3/6, 3/6, 3/6, 1/6

Some pictures from the National Goat Expo in Bloomington, Illinois.

Tomorrow, we leave for Washington, Indiana to attend the 2nd annual Hoosier Rutfest and first annual Kidding Around Classic Jr/Sr Doe Show!  We are so excited to show our bucks again, and they have added a doe show this year too! Looking forward to a weekend full of friends, fun, learning, and of course GOATS!  Will update when we return. We hope to see you there!

ALSO....I am working on something BIG and FUN and will be announcing it very soon, so check back often for updates! 

One of my friends has contacted me for help in finding a new home for this 6-year-old Australian Shepherd.  She is a great herding dog, but is extremely gun shy (even runs at the sight of a gun).  She is experienced with cattle. She is spayed and is up to date on all vaccinations and is very healthy.  If you are interested in adding a working dog to your herd contact me at ericamccarter@gmail.com 

This girl is located in Thorntown, Indiana and is free to good home.

Playing catch up today. Brandon helped me get a few individual pictures of the new doelings last week. These were taken when they were about five days old. Today, they are twelve days old and growing FAST!

As I have mentioned before, we recently completely remodeled our barn by building new stalls, painting the walls and sealing the floors. Below is a slideshow of results. We essentially have split the barn into two halves with the animal stalls in the west half, and our living area and maintenence/milking parlor in the east half. During the winter, we spend alot of time in our barn, so a futon and table and chairs next to the wood stove was essential! We absolutely LOVE how it turned out, as it is both extremely functional and cozy, and the Rustoleum Epoxy we sealed the floor with makes cleanups easy!

Yesterday, we attended the Summit City Classic ADGA Open Show at Fort Wayne.  All in all it was a good show, with some amazing competition!  We showed three junior does, two senior does, two junior bucks and two senior bucks. We didn't come away with any ribbons this time, but it was a very positive experience and, as always, we learned ALOT!  Our next show will be in Washington, Indiana on September 21st where we will be showing bucks and junior does.

We are extremely excited to announce that we are adding two new does to our herd. Drumroll please...

Cali is the dam to our beloved Tator Tot, who we lost earlier this year to a suspected auto-immune disorder.  She is the progeny of CH Algedi Farm Smokin Hot Honey (Algedi Farm Drops of Jupiter X Rosasharn's UMT Tupelo Honey) and Jasper Pine Hot Cocoa (Rosasharn Tom's Keiki Kane X Kaapio Acres Golden Daisy). Cali is so sweet, and she reminds us so much of our Tator. 

Along for the ride, is Cali's 2013 doeling out of Rosasharn SH Epic *B (Rosasharn BB Son of Honey X Rosasharn P Haiku) who sold for $8700 at the 2011 ADGA National Convention Spotlight sale  - the highest valued goat in the sale as well as the highest selling in the ADGA Spotlight Sale for the past 15 years!

Jessie is a little sweetheart, just like her momma, and we are honored and humbled to have the opportunity to add both of them to our herd.

Sorry it's been so long! We have been crazy busy finishing up the remodel of the barn (It's done!), and getting goats ready for Summit City Classic this weekend.  I haven't had time to get individual pics of the new babies yet, but I wanted to get their names announced.  I took this pic a few days ago.  Everyone is happy and healthy and growing like weeds! 

The little chocolate and white doe closest to her momma is Twin Willows SB Bitta Hopenluv (Hope).  She had a rough start to life and with a bit of hope and love, she is now thriving!  The little black and white doe who is showing you her butt is Twin Willows SB Bianca Aerie, and the black and white doe up on the platform is Twin Willows SB Buckle Bunny.  All three have been retained to the farm for now. They are all real beauties!

Like I said, we are taking our boys and girls up to Fort Wayne this Saturday for the Summit City Classic Goatpalooza. This will be our third year attending, and we absolutely love this show! There should be some great competition there. If you are out and about in Fort Wayne on Saturday come see us!  Just look for the black and white Twin Willows banner.

I have pics compiled of the barn remodel, and I'll get them in a slideshow on the website soon!