Today Krystin Dennis at http://www.horsefloss.com/ came to check the boy’s teeth. Over the years I’ve hired quite a variety of dentists to work on the boys.My goal this time was to find someone who was kind and patient and would…

Poco (above) Ben (above) Lucky (above) Lucky (above) Took the toes back into the white line again. Much improved, although hoof capsules are still a bit stretched forward. Soles are tough and frogs have expanded and toughened. Copyright ©2016 Carrie…

Looking pretty rough before mowing. The goats love these wildflowers and weeds. Great view!

Here is the completed portion of the bottom runway, and the exercise yard in the woods with plenty of granite to walk over. The runway must cross our pea gravel driveway to access the woods. So that we can still…

Here is the top pasture after mowing and before any fertilizer is added.

The pastures were bare soil and weeds when I moved in. As the soil is very rocky, I made the decision to overseed rather than plow everything under and stir up more rocks. The first website I visited was http://www.safergrass.org/…

This is the middle pasture on July 10, 2009, after mowing and before applying Dynamite Prescription Treatment and Dynamite CCF.

Just for fun, I’ve started another blog documenting my experiments with pastures, runways, forage, fencing and paddock paradise principles. Click to link or go to my profile to see the Quercus Knoll blog. Carriehttp://www.carrieeastman.com/http://www.oakhillfaintinggoats.com/

Oak Hill has roughly 3 acres of cleared grazing land. We also have woods available for the goats and horses. Our land is hilly, moderately steep and rocky. The soil is high iron and clay. This aerial photo was taken…