Eating for two
Artemesia gets an extra well balanced breakfast when she's eating for two.
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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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Cathy --- It's great to see you over here! We got so lucky taking home Aowen's daughter. Artemesia is the world's sweetest goat and we dote upon her, as you can probably tell.
Her feet do tend to separate a bit as you said, and one year we had a bit of rot. But I'm very vigilant about trimming, sometimes hitting them more than once a month if I'm concerned, and they seem to stay pretty good on that regimen.
I suspect you're right that her daughter had coccidiosis...but she's fat and happy now! Thanks for introducing such a wonderful bloodline to our farm!