Icelandic Goat Ranch

     On May 2nd, I went to a ranch with Icelandic goats living on it! The very nice women who runs it, Jóhanna, talked to my family and me a lot about how she runs it. A lot like the goat farm in Gunnison, she rents goats out to people. They then come to her farm to help with the goats. This breed of goat was apparently brought over from Norway with the Vikings, and has been here ever since. My family and I came to the farm with another group of people, and everyone was very excited to see all of the goats, especially the baby goats! Jóhanna breeds most of her goats so that they have babies in the spring, but that means that she would have a lot of goats up there. So, instead, she makes soaps and ointments out of them. Thankfully, my parents drew the line at buying goat meat. Anyway, the baby goats were adorable! Some of them were so calm while others tried to eat your ears. While we were talking about the goats, Jóhanna informed us that she is the only farm in all of Iceland that has Icelandic goats in a particular brown color.
     Once we were done seeing the baby goats (though I doubt that I would never get tired of seeing the baby goats), people started heading over to see the big boy goats. Most of them were really shy, but there were two that came right up to you. One of them was twelve years old and HUGE! His name was Prins. The other friendly guy was a yearly. He was super cute and my siblings and I could just walk up to and pet him. After we got tired of trying to pet the other bucks, my family and I bought our goods and left for Bifröst. Before we left, though, Jóhanna offered for me to come out and help her on her farm sometime if I want. I believe that I will take her up on her offer.