{"id":63,"date":"2013-03-18T01:40:20","date_gmt":"2013-03-18T01:40:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/192.168.169.51\/?page_id=63"},"modified":"2019-10-27T11:59:20","modified_gmt":"2019-10-27T15:59:20","slug":"about-us-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.littlebunch.com\/?page_id=63","title":{"rendered":"About Us"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/littlebunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/cropped-IMG_602812.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-33\" style=\"float: left; padding: 5px;\" src=\"http:\/\/littlebunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/cropped-IMG_602812.jpg\" alt=\"cropped-IMG_60281\" width=\"250\" height=\"117\" \/><\/a>I started Littlebunch in 1995. My world had become a little too otherworldly from hacking code on what seemed like a 24&#215;7 basis. So, I figured taking care of a little bunch of goats would be a way to keep it real. I bought a couple of does from Ann Weikel of <a title=\"Link to Little Rockspring Website\" href=\"http:\/\/lrockspring.com\">Little Rockspring<\/a> and another from Carole Rhoten, who lived up the road and, along with her husband Wayne, owned Magnum Semen Works. We&#8217;re still breeding on these animals. So, for anyone starting out in dairy goats, my first advice is to always buy the best foundation stock you can afford.<\/p>\n<p>I bought Hogg&#8217;s Hideaway Chalice and Lucky Star&#8217;s Kojak from Carole when she sold off her Magnum Semen Works bucks around 1998. We&#8217;re still breeding on both lines. So, my second bit of advice to beginners is to only use the best buck you can find.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve also been incredibly lucky to have had Don Carmen as our vet from the beginning. Don and his family maintain one of the t<a title=\"Link to Tailwaggers website\" href=\"http:\/\/www.goatsoapchalet.com\/\">op dairy herds<\/a> in the country and have recently founded a commercial dairy. It&#8217;s safe to say that they don&#8217;t make vets like Don anymore. So, my last piece of advice is to make sure you have the best vet in your area.<\/p>\n<p>The really lucky break in my life, however, was meeting Jennifer Yust in 2000. She was a natural with the goats and, more importantly, willing to put up with it all, including marrying me in 2004. Making goat&#8217;s milk <a title=\"Link to Wikipedia article on soap\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Soap\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">soap<\/a> was her idea which she started in October 2007 as a way to raise money to help those in need. Some of the proceeds from the sale of this soap are used to help those in need.<\/p>\n<p>So, order some soap from us. Buy a couple of our animals. Or, drop us a line if you need a little free advice on goat herding &#8212; just remember you get what you pay for&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>-Gary<\/p>\n<p>Gary Moore<br \/>\nCo-owner, Littlebunch Dairy Goats<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I started Littlebunch in 1995. My world had become a little too otherworldly from hacking code on what seemed like a 24&#215;7 basis. So, I figured taking care of a little bunch of goats would be a way to keep it real. I bought a couple of does from Ann Weikel of Little Rockspring and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-63","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlebunch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/63","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlebunch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlebunch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlebunch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlebunch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlebunch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/63\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":199,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlebunch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/63\/revisions\/199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlebunch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}