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Happy Monday from our House Goat, Taco. This little bottle baby basically lives inside, with some structured outdoor time. He was rejected by his mamá, but has kind of been adopted by Waffles.

In case you haven't noticed, we have a theme. It started with breakfast, but we're just going with whatever food vibe that comes to mind 😂.

Trying to get some work done while keeping an eye on all the babies is roughhhhhh, but I have to pay for those sheds and the animal feed somehow. At least our weather is fantastic today 😍

We’ve got two more baby girls! Their mamá is Gravy, sister to Toast who had babies earlier this week. And other than Snickerdoodles, all the cousins look so similar! Gravy is doing a really good job, too, although these ones were born outside and I was worried about them so they're wearing our chihuahua’s sweatshirts 😂😂😂😂

What does $100 look like around here? Three bags of animal food from @purina 😂😅. I talked about hay in my last reel, but we supplement everyone's food when they're free ranging or we need them to do something with grain for the goats and crumbles for the chickens. @tractorsupply and @purina, hit me up with those feed deals or sponsorship opportunities 😂😂😂😂😂😂

The only Black Friday deals I’m hoping for are any that can reduce my feed costs 😅. We have a lot of mouths to feed around here, with more on the way. The chickens and goats will eat kitchen scraps, and in an ideal world we could rotate goats through the property to reduce feed costs. But right now, we spend a lot of money on food for these buggers.

I just don’t understand how we as humans could take an active role in the domestication of other species, then expect that we’d be functional in other aspects of our lives while these beautiful creatures exist. Like, granted, the domestication process started 10K years ago before "knowledge work" was a thing, but I cannot reasonably focus when there's cute babies within my general proximity.

This naughty unicorn normally only says hi if he wants something. He must have smelled remnant treats in my pockets or something.

Bangs just found out it's a 3-day weekend, so he broken out again for some freedom and to find some ladies.

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