Eleanor is a one month old Alpine/Nubian goat that joined our farm on Thursday, February 4th, 2021.

Eleanor was born at The Herb Hill Farm in Pepperell as a triplet. Her mother couldn’t keep up feeding three kids, so she was the primary bottle baby. Over the past week she’s settled right in to her new home at Maplebrook Farm.

For now, Eleanor lives in my house, as she doesn’t have a buddy to keep her company and the older goats are very jealous of her and like to beat up on her.

She gets fed a bottle of goat’s milk (I saved surplus from my own dairy goats last year, which has worked out perfectly) three times per day but has a big appetite for every thing else she can get her mouth on. She is the stereotypical goat that literally eats everything (including my truck registration).

Nobody gets to live for free on the farm, so of course we put Eleanor to work right away, and found that she came with quite the impressive resume.

So far she has overseen the construction of the new farm stand (employee moral is her specialty)…

She does quality control on egg cleaning, and specializes in inspection of cartons and labels…

She jumped right into the goat hike lineup…

And occasionally she can be seen greeting customers at the farm stand.

Eleanor doesn’t like being left alone, so for now she goes everywhere I go. She even helps out at Cooper’s Hilltop Farm on the nights that I milk cows (although she prefers playing in/eating the pile of shredded newspaper).

At the end of a long day Eleanor likes to come home and get into all kinds of mischief in the house. Her favorite room is the bathroom, where she just recently discovered the magic of toilet paper.

Eleanor is so sweet, smart, and inquisitive. She is the perfect addition to our farm and I look forward to sharing her with more of you in the months ahead.