Breeding time, so much to learn

Owning a farm has been a daily lesson.  Before we purchased our first animal we purchased about five books about animals and farming/homesteading.  It is something you just don't open the door of a home and say, OK I want a farm and lets do it.  It takes some planning.   Some things you find out along the way.
We have found out farmers are very friendly people very willing to help out other farmers.  They are willing to give advise to get you started.  To talk to an ole timer is interesting to say the least.
Their whole mentality is why we wanted to take this journey on in the first place.  A farmer has an inner peace, I think like no other profession.  Farming is a job that is never ending, 24/7 days a week.  You are always on call.  But the pride you have from your bounty is unremarkable.  The way you feel about your family, homestead and all your sweat equity gives you a better quality of life.  I truly believe this.
In our plan we have vegetables, compost, rotation, animals, breeding, butchering, meat, eggs, milk and whatever other uses we can think of our land can provide us.  Now we would love to add more to this like grains in the future but we have some work to do on our land to provide the quality soil for this to happen.  This will take equipment we don't have at this time.  Our limited funds hold us back from doing things fast.  We must take baby steps on every process.  But we are doing it.  This home and farm need a lot of work.  We did know this when we bought it.  But we took on the task because my husband is handy and we have a strong son that can help him.  They work well together.  It takes a family to make a farm work.  Most of all takes time nothing happens overnight.
First we started with some chicks.  But first we had to build a chicken coop.  That cost money.  We try to use recycled materials as much as possible.  With chicks soon came eggs.  With eggs and chick also came compost for the garden.  This helps with our organic homestead.
Next we purchased pigs.  I have written some post on our pigs.   We have butchered a few of our pigs and stuffed our freezer with the finest pork we have ever tasted.  Now we are in the process of breeding two sows for a couple of litters of piglets.  Our plans are to sell some and to keep some for our meat for this years freezer.  We look forward to the bounty of raising pigs.
Now our goats.  We have blogged about our goats.  We just love our goats.  Recently we added a new goat to our herd.  We call him Master Billy Goat.  He is our Buck and will do our breeding for our two girls.

We have been so lucky with our animals.  He is just the kindest buck.  Most people say bucks can be mean or ornery but not him.  We are lucky, I think he has done his job so if all goes well we will have two baby goats coming in July.
With babies coming that means we will have two goats in milk.  That just thrills us.  We have been waiting for goats in milk for a while.  It will be in the plan to get at least one more goat.  But we must take things slow.  So with goats milk we will be able to have of course milk but also we can make cheese and soap.  This will help the farm out a lot.
So by July we should be full swing with piglets, baby goats and maybe even baby chicks all over again.  Our garden should be full swing by then also.  We are hoping it will produce even better this year.  Day by day the hard work that takes 24/7, 365 days a year does pay off.  When you sit at your table and eat your own grown food and drink a fresh glass of milk I don't think you can get any better.