Blue Mountain Farm
600 Akweks J0N 1E0 Oka, QC, Canada

Sharing their dinner. So sweet.

This is what free range hens look like. We have roughly 100 laying hens here on the farm. The pic doesn't show that because the hens are all over the place. Dur...ing the morning hours they will lay an egg, and then they take off foraging until the sun goes down. Unless it is raining then the will head back into the barn. Through out the day they will search for bugs, worms, and even eat some grass. This is what makes their eggs so tasty. Oh yeah they will even eat some dirt. There is 2 roosters with them and they will keep a watchful eye out and if they see something suspicious flying overhead they will sound an alarm call and all the hens come running back inside the barn. I find watching the hens wandering about and scratching in the dirt very relaxing. Seeing animals how they are meant to be a real joy. See more

Poor baby momma rejected her. Just kept stepping on her. She's chilled so I brought her in to cuddle and warm up. Gonna be bottle feeding her. Lucky to have a c...ouple of dairy goats I can take milk from for her. Poor thing is shivering. At least it's not minus 20 like last week or I'd have all the babies in the house. Just kidding. When she gets stronger and warms up she can go back in the barn to snuggle with the other babies. See more

This is Caramel giving birth to the first of 4 babies. I just got to capture the first one born, didnt know there was going to be that many. This was the first set of quads born on the farm. Caramel is a 4 year old cashmire mixed boer/nubian doe. She always gives me the nicest babies, heaviest kids. Sire is Du Biquet Treeline Touchdown. You can hear my surprise at the end of the video when I notice the baby is coming tail first. Normal birth presentation for goats and... other 4 legged animals is 2 front legs with the head in a diving position. Because she had 4 babies the first one was rather small and she had no problem passing the baby in this position. If this had been a single birth or even double the baby would have been too large to be born this way and would have required intervention. The whole birth was very fast one baby after the other. The night didnt end for me there, because after they are all born and especially with this many, AND with the cold temperature, I had to stay and make sure all babies were cleaned off and had some colostrum before coming in for the night. Caramel is a super protective mother and this makes it very tricky to help her out, she was thinking i was hurting her babies so I had to tie her tight or risk being impaled by her horns. She will calm down some after the hormones go down a bit and will get used to me being around her babies. Since time is precious with the cold weather, giving the babies colostrum means that I milked some from the mother and fed each one by a syringe, just enough to give them a boost of energy to fight the cold and get on thier feet. Now almost 5am I can finally get some sleep. Check on momma and her babies they are all doing great. babies sure are fiesty. I will most likely have to bottle feed a couple of them. See more