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We are asked how we manage our bucks in rut - as we have several. They spend most of the year in a bachelor pen with bucks of all ages - up to 25 of them! For breeding season, we select those that we think will produce the traits we are looking for. Our buck pen is on the opposite side of the property from doe pens and breeding pens. To put bucks in breeding pens, we catch them in a catch pen, ...

2023 Kiko Kidding Season Pasture Walk

The Frog Pond: Pregnant Kiko Does

Why are the baby goats eating dirt? Are they deficient in something? No...they are fine. They are babies, and goat kids, like two-leggeds, explore the world with their mouth. Their dam, KCR Blaupunkt, is available, and clearly has plenty of milk, so they are not hungry- just kids being kids!

Our Australian Shepherd, Levi, is a year and a half old now. He is coming into his own, and a huge help on the ranch. With our kids all grown, it is just the two of us, we just don't have enough hands between us, and we aren't as agile as we used to be - so we decided to get a puppy. He has had no formal training - just informal experience - but his instincts are spot on - and he is smart. The ...

With all of the goats appearing available on our website, our fans have expressed concern that we may be getting out of the goat business. We most certainly are not - offering goats is part of the business! We love our goats and can't imagine the canyon without them. The canyon NEEDS goats to be healthy and safe. Here is a quick parade of the 2022 selection of does that are being retained as re...

WHAT are they doing? Did they kill a goat? Tillie and Sadie are seven months old now and working in the doe/kid pasture. While it looks alarming, it is really quite innocent. Amos, our Pyr/Maremma cross shed ridiculous amounts of hair...and puppies being puppies, love to play with it. Sometimes they are excellent guardians and work hard - but sometimes the world goes on around them while they p...

Every morning, we let the herd out to free-range on the canyon. We have no idea where they go...it is too steep and rugged to follow them. It is hard to tell in the video, but they are climbing a steep incline...and this is a gentle slope. They are coming from the bottom of the east canyon...it drops off again on both sides of the green meadow. If you look closely you can see them come up out o...

Watch the herd free-range in the canyon with dogs. Miss Kitty is the LGD that free-ranges. She was born on the ranch and raised in the pasture, and is now 2 1/2 years old. She is a GP/Akbash cross. Also in the video is Levi, a one year old Australian Shepherd. Notice how differently they are interacting with the herd. While it isn't in this video, when it is time to return to the rim pasture, L...

We are so waterlogged, the ground can't even absorb the rain anymore. We have wet, muddy kids, but it is all they know, so they aren't upset about it. This little one stays dry playing on the rocks in the puddle. It snuck through the fence into the chicken enclosure...

Aloha had twins at Kopf Canyon Ranch! Watch the birth of her doeling. Aloha is one of our pack string mamas. Her blue buckling will go on to become a pack goat, and her doeling will stay in our herd.

As awful as the wind and snow were last night, it drove the cold front out. We are already 42F today and we watched the snow melt it came off so quickly! The sun is glorious - what a perfect day to be born on pasture! First freshener KCR Casseopeia, a quadruplet out of Dutchess, presented triplets - two doelings and a buckling.

Take a walk with us on the West Rim Pasture. A week out from the start of kidding season, there are some baby bumps on the horizon. The herd is dispersed on the rim and down the side of the canyon foraging, despite having hay available. The wind is blowing - not only will you hear it - but you can see the does' beards blowing sideways! We pasture kid, so the does also establish their territorie...

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