We let our goats' hooves slide for six weeks recently instead of trimming them at the month mark. The edges of Abigail's front hooves had just started to curve in, but everything else looked fine.

Lambchop didn't get trimmed this time around because his date with the butcher is only a week and a half away.

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About us: Anna Hess and Mark Hamilton spent over a decade living self-sufficiently in the mountains of Virginia before moving north to start over from scratch in the foothills of Ohio. They've experimented with permaculture, no-till gardening, trailersteading, home-based microbusinesses and much more, writing about their adventures in both blogs and books.



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