Kidding season has started!

Our first 2011 babies were born yesterday evening. ( 2/4/2011) April is the proud momma of twins. (one boy and one girl) Both are doing well and learning how to handle their long legs!


Our newest baby was born on Nov. 27. Last year we only bred 1 Doe to our new buck. We have been looking forward to this crop of kids to see what Eggbert would produce.

The little fellow is into everything and very active. More babies should be here in late December.

Stuffed Bell Peppers

Another hobby of mine is cooking.
I have never been real excited about Stuffed Bell Peppers. You know the ones, Peppers crammed full of hamburger and rice then smothered with tomatoe sauce. Edible but not very exciting. Well I tried a new recipe the other night and I think it is a keeper.

6 Bell Peppers (cut in half length wise)
2 1/2 cups rice
2 pounds ground meat
1 onion, diced
2 cloves garlic, diced
1 14 oz can diced tomatoes with juice
1 10 oz can of Rotel tomatoes and green chilies
16 oz grated cheese (I used fresh Chevre but you can use whatever you like.)
Salt & Pepper

Preheat oven to 400.

Cut & clean Peppers then wilt them in boiling water for about 5 minutes.
Cook the rice according to package directions.
In a medium skillet brown the meat, onion and garlic.
In a medium saucepan bring the Tomatoes and Rotel to a boil then reduce heat and simmer for about 5 minutes.
Combine Meat, Tomatoes, Rice add salt & Pepper to taste and mix well.

In a 9 X 13 baking dish place peppers skin side down and fill them with the meat mixture. Cover with aluminum foil and bake far approx. 15 minutes. Remove the foil and sprinkle cheese on top. Return to oven Uncovered for about 5 minutes to melt the cheese.

Maybe I was just really hungry but I thought they were terrific!

Goats Milk Soap

I haven't been on here for a while but I am back.
Spring turned into summer and things have been hectic. We finally got our Oat hay cut and baled (for the goats)and I planted some black eyed peas (cow peas)to cut for hay. If I can get some rain!

The Soap Business is up and running and we are making and selling Goats Milk Soap!
People seem really facinated when they find out that we milk goats, so I have decided to answer the most asked questions here.

Yes we milk them by hand.

Yes, everyday twice a day.

Yes we milk when it is cold or hot or windy or raining or any combination of those!

No we don't milk the Billy goats, Just the Does! (yes I have been asked that)

We mainly milk Nubians and Nubian/Boer crosses (but I'm not hung up on any one breed)

No, it is not Goat Soap. It is Goats Milk Soap!

Yes we drink the milk.

Yes it does lather.

And my all time favorite,

No the soap won't make you smell like a goat, it will keep you from smelling like a goat!

Our Goats milk Soap is "NOT" melt and pour! We make each batch from natural fats, oils and goats milk. We are very proud of the product that we make. If you have any questions please let me know.

Right now we have about 19 scents that we make.

Monkey Farts, (Smells like bananas and kiwi to me)
Lemon Verbena, (Very Lemony )
Sex on the Beach, (Like the drink)
Madagascar Spice, (cloves)
Cucumber Melon,
Lilac,
Inspiration, (heavy scent)
Honeysuckle,
Oatmeal Cookie, (Yep. Thats what it smells like.)
Patchouli,
Goat Milk & Honey,

Daydream, (I can't explain it, but it smells wonderfull to me.)
Dragons Blood,
Oatmeal & Honey,
Beer, (Yes it is made with beer)
Peppermint,

Vanilla Sandlewood,
Coffee, great for removing odors from your hands or laundry.
and
Un-scented.

The bars ar approx. 4.5 oz
Prices:
$5.00 per bar or 5 bars for $20 plus shipping.

We also have a few Shaving Sets for sale. Set includes a Shaving Mug, Brush and Shaving Soap.

Cost: $30.00 plus shipping.

If you are interested in purchasing soap shoot me an email at nicholsauction@hotmail.com

It is all a Blur!

Last winter was a long and miserable one around here and we were really looking forward to spring. Well Spring has not been very nice to us either. Last weekind was the first time that I could leave the house in the morning without a coat. We have had cool weather and ALOT of rain! The Spring sales have been good so far (we are also in the auction business) and they are about to run me to death. This spring I have called sales in the Wind, Snow and Rain! I am ready for a nice, still and sunny day.

The goats have all finished kidding and we are in full swing milking, making cheese, yogurt and soap.

Speaking of soap I pulled a real stunt yesterday. I was going to split a batch of soap for two different fragerances. I usually soap in 9 pound batches. Well for some reason my memory failed me and I thought it was a 7 pound batch. I mixed all of the ingredients and got it to trace then seperated it into two batches weighing out 3 1/2 pounds and added my Fragerance. That is when things went south. The FO that I was using isn't supposed to acceralate but this stuff set up instantly! I quickly flopped it into the mold but it was already setting up.

I mixed the FO into the other 1/2 and poured it into the mold and then I realized that there was alot more soap in the 2nd half. So now I have 2 batches of screwed up soap. One with too much fragerance oil and one with not enough! Oh well live and learn, plus now we have alot of soap for us to use. lol.

If anybody needs some Monkey Farts soap with a real strong smell that is kind of cat crap yellow in color let me know. I can fix you up!

In the beginning

In the beginning I bought a couple of goats for brush and weed control. They were just some crossbred basic goats. I bred them to a Boer Billy that fall and in February the babies started arriving. Then I started thinking! (That is the dangerous part.) One of these Nannies had a decent udder so I decided to break her to milk.

We don't use alot of milk and a gallon from the store usually went bad before we would use it up, so I decided this was a great plan. I could milk whenever we needed milk for the house and the babies could keep her milked the rest of the time.

This was a good plan. ( I am sure that it was.)

As time went along I started making yogurt and cheese and soap and drinking more milk and I realized that I wasn't getting enough milk to keep up. That was easy enough to remedy, I bought another milk goat.

About this time my parents started getting milk from us so once again we were running short of milk, so I bought 3 more Nubians, then I bought another Nubian.

By now my wife had decided that I had gone completely over the edge. She wasn't sure that we needed the original goats, now we had more.

Over a period of time she came around to my way of thinking and decided that she liked the goats (most of them).