What do we do with cashmere goats?  Well we used to comb them for their fiber, once a year in the spring time - just when you put your winter coats away, the goats start shedding their coats also. When we had 30 goats to comb, we elected to shear them and our first year my husband said they looked like they went to barber college. Ha ha! We send their fiber off to a processor. I have them then spin it into a specific weight yarn and then keep some and sell the rest. It is a coveted product as it is wonderfully warm, soft and feels so good to even work with.

I became interested in soap making because we are a family with lots of allergies. I wanted to have something around that I was sure would not make us itch and we could pick our scents. We make a variety of soaps which include goats milks soaps, glycerin soaps, sweet honey soap, oatmeal soap and sometimes feature a new soap.

The goats milk soaps have a natural moisturizer in them and feel good after you use them. I put a little scent in them to make them smell very good. I also like the honey soap as it seems to make my face feel very clean. I have a clear glycerin soap that I make for my grandkids, into which I drop plastic bugs, butterflies, or some kind of plastic creature. They love it and can hardly wait to wash their hands to see what I have made for them.  We also have chickens which we raise for their eggs, as well as ducks. 

	What started as a curiosity has grown into about 20 chickens and 4 ducks. I love to see them running around picking up ticks, bugs, and anything that flies in front of them good enough to eat.  I really like that I have no spider webs on the yard as you sometimes see in grassy fields in the morning dew.
Creepy - or that's what I thought when I first saw it, but not here ... anymore.  Good chickens!  Good ducks!
	Oh we also have a resident llama named Yamo.  He came to us when his mother died and we adopted him.  After bottle feeding him 3x a day, we are all attached to him and he to us. Yamo is a lady's man and will greet ladies with a nuzzle to their cheeks and infatuate them quickly to make them think they are "special."  I have ladies all over the country calling and asking "How is Yamo"?
He is fine.  He resides in a pen with a little goat named Pepper.  She is about 1/5th the size of Yamo and they look out for each other.
Aside from that our little farm seems to be a peaceful kingdom.  We love to have the grandkids come over and play with the animals, as well as run with the chickens.
	We also raise golden retrievers and they are a wonderful addition to our farm. If you are interested in a golden, let us know and we can get you the information you need.