Wildhaven Farm

Wildhaven Farm Wildhaven Farm is a small, family owned farm. We sell a limited amount of produce, seeds and other farm products.

Cheese day today! Now that I am routinely seperating the dam raised kids at night, cheese day is every 3-4 days! About a...
05/21/2026

Cheese day today! Now that I am routinely seperating the dam raised kids at night, cheese day is every 3-4 days! About a gallon of yogurt, 2 5ish pound wheels of hard cheese and 1-2 smaller specialty cheeses is what I am grinding out every week right now. We haven't bought any cheese since March and with roughly 30lbs aging now, we are pretty well supplied for a while. My goal is for 125lbs before drying the herd up for winter . . .an attainable goal that works well with my plan to keep the girls milking for a full 305 day lactation this year!

2026 one day milk test complete! Still waiting for official results from CGS, but if my math is correct . . .all 3 of ou...
05/05/2026

2026 one day milk test complete! Still waiting for official results from CGS, but if my math is correct . . .all 3 of our senior does should qualify for their *M!

Wildhaven ST Pepper - 4.89kg (10.76lb)/3.88%bf
Wildhaven KL Regina - 4.51kg (9.9lb)/ 4.5%bf
Wildhaven RF Rens Reign - 4.55kg (10lb)/ 3.38%bf
Wildhaven JW Sundew - 2.02kg (4.44lb)/ 4.47%bf
Wildhaven JW Summer's Reign - 1.72kg (3.74lb)/ 5.33%bf

The highlight of this was Gina managing to come back from a bout of illness about 2 weeks before test day! She was pounding out almost 12 lbs a day but dropped to almost nothing when she didn't eat for 3 days! I had written her off for this year, but she managed to get back up to just shy of 10lb and she is holding steady at that now.

I am going to do regular component testing throughout the summer as I dont feel that a single data point is enough to judge on! I weighed my girls production very regularly and always know what they are producing volume wise, but knowing that fat and protein percentage needs lab work.

This buckling is the only intact boy that I have available this year. I had planned on banding all the 2026 boys, but th...
05/05/2026

This buckling is the only intact boy that I have available this year. I had planned on banding all the 2026 boys, but this one just has everything going for him to be a herd sire . . .sooo, introducing Wildhaven JW Maximus! Out of Cariboo Creek OJ Jokers Wild and Wildhaven KL Regina.

Max's dam, Gina, is a workhorse of a doe. Consistently strong production year after year, peaking just under 12lbs this year as a 7yr old. She unfortunately got sick two weeks before milk test this year and tanked in production. She has bounced back very well and despite the drop in production still managed to put enough in the pail on test day to easily qualify for her *M!

Max's sire has two daughters that have freshened with udders that show vast improvements over their dam in both rear and fore attachments as well as strength in medial and overall width.

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Cracked open my first bandaged cheddar today. I was hoping to age it a bit longer, but we ran out of all the other less ...
05/05/2026

Cracked open my first bandaged cheddar today. I was hoping to age it a bit longer, but we ran out of all the other less aged cheese that was in my dairy fridge.

Omg . . .soooo yummy! It wasn't as "melty" as I had hoped, but the flavour was outstanding despite only being aged about 6 weeks. I have another cheddar that I made yesterday, I am going to bandage that one and hopefully be able to let it age a lot longer.

Crystal and I went to the Kamloops beekeepers field day today! So much collective knowledge combined with enthusiastic n...
05/03/2026

Crystal and I went to the Kamloops beekeepers field day today! So much collective knowledge combined with enthusiastic new and prospective beekeepers. We haven't got our hives ready for this year, but the plan is to learn as much as we can and gradually invest in the stuff we need to get started so we can add these amazing "livestock" to our already diverse operation! I love bees so much, I could spend hours just watching them . . .and honey is a pretty sweet bonus!

So happy to see all the spring transplants hardening off so nicely. Lots of stuff growing already out in the gardens too...
04/30/2026

So happy to see all the spring transplants hardening off so nicely. Lots of stuff growing already out in the gardens too. I am really excited about all the space we will be using to grow food this year! And . . . a peek at our new greenhouse! Still need to get the shelving up but its put together and the plants spent the night out there. So relieved to not have to squish them all onto our seed starting shelf in the house, they outgrew that space a couple weeks ago!

Getting closer to planting out this year's crops! I have planted quite a bit already. Broccoli, celery, onions, kale tra...
04/24/2026

Getting closer to planting out this year's crops! I have planted quite a bit already. Broccoli, celery, onions, kale transplants,and a bunch of cool season seeds like spinach, lettuce and peas. Got some potatoes in. Things are starting to roll. I am really stoked for the sweet potatoes this year. I am putting them on the sunny side of the house so they get a bit more heat than they did last year. The starts are huge and healthy already so fingers crossed we will get a decent crop this fall!

Milk test in 2 weeks . . .pretty stoked about this doe this year! She is milking over 5kg a day right now at 6 weeks fre...
04/16/2026

Milk test in 2 weeks . . .pretty stoked about this doe this year! She is milking over 5kg a day right now at 6 weeks fresh! Wildhaven ST Pepper.

April photo dump! I am happy with how my herd is evolving . . .but also pretty excited to get some new buck lines this s...
04/14/2026

April photo dump! I am happy with how my herd is evolving . . .but also pretty excited to get some new buck lines this summer. I am working on my sale list, some of these guys have to move along to make space for the next generation!

More cheese/dairy spam lol! Another 5 lb wheel of unnamed generic cheese lol. 2lb wheel of Camembert and another 1/2 pou...
04/01/2026

More cheese/dairy spam lol! Another 5 lb wheel of unnamed generic cheese lol. 2lb wheel of Camembert and another 1/2 pound of ricotta from this week's supply. The volume I am bringing home is dropping slightly as the kids are all in their maximum milk consumption stage. They will pound back a lot of milk for the next month before being slowly tapered off and transitioning to a hay based diet.

I am starting to narrow down the list of who is for sale this year. I have two doe kids that can go anytime. They are bottlefed and will need to be on milk for another 6-8 weeks at least. 1 dry yearling, can go anytime. I will have a 2yr old FF available in June. I am still trying to get some decent photos and then I will make a separate post with more sale info!

Wildhaven JW Sundew. 2yr old FF. This doe is not exactly overflowing the milk pail yet . . .but, she is such an improvem...
03/28/2026

Wildhaven JW Sundew. 2yr old FF. This doe is not exactly overflowing the milk pail yet . . .but, she is such an improvement over her dam in every other way, that I will give her another freshening before judging too harshly!

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