Save Mike's Guernsey Goats (Mike Hulme) Dairy

Our favorite local dairy farm, Mike's Guernsey Goats (Mike Hulme), has been completely devastated by the recent floods and needs our immediate help to survive this tragic event.

Despite MIke's efforts to save every animal when the flood swept through the property, lives were tragically lost and it remains a precarious situation for all involved.

Mike and his animals are in URGENT NEED for immediate funds, possible temporary housing for the animals, and volunteer labor with the overwhelming work of clean-up, repairs and daily care of his beloved goats.

If you can help by volunteering, please contact Mike directly here. He's open to all possible forms of assistance. Please let him know what you can do to help!

If you value good, wholesome natural healthy REAL food, local independent farms/food, raw dairies, and hard-working farmers, your effort to save this operation is necessary. to keep MIke's dairy alive!

This is our primary milk supplier for a reason - Mike brings the BEST milk to market and he's just a wonderful person.

Please help! Do whatever you can, even if it's just sharing this with your contacts and pages, etc. He needs help and he needs it now - let's save this farm!

Below please find a message prepared by Mike, our beloved and wonderful long-time supplier of raw goat milk and wild fermented raw goat milk kefir that's unlike any other dairy in so many ways. Mike is incredibly dedicated, hard-working, and truly loves his animals - treating them with tremendous love, attentive and respectful care, wisdom, understanding, and experience. He needs our help now - please share, donate and volunteer! Thank you!

The Four Deuce Ranch in Paicines used to be a thriving meat goat ranch with 100 acres of steep hillsides. It became my Guernsey Goat Farm rental in 2021 after having to sell my Ranch in Tres Pinos just a few miles north half of which I lost in a divorce. In the settlement, I chose to save my herd and look for partners to continue the only source of high-butter fat sweet Guernsey goat milk. Guernseys are small milkers but their milk is amazing. My objective is to reestablish the business and hand over ownership to young enthusiasts. I am a young 78-year-old Brit working towards retirement once the

Guernsey goat herd is safe and productive again.

After my divorce in early 2022, I successfully rebuilt the dairy in my 18-wheel articulated trailers and housed my goats mostly in the arena built 12 years ago by Mike Fault for his pedigree Boer goats. The fences here were built with railroad ties and horse fencing and cost a fortune from a government grant.

On January 10th the 5-foot wide San Benito stream that runs through the farm became a 100-foot wide torrent breaking its banks several properties upstream where trees and shrubs had thrived on the rich soils along the river beds and had not been allowed to be cleared by local county regulations. This misinformed lack of maintenance resulted in pushing water up into county-taxed private properties and across fields now several feet below the broken banks upstream. The result is a torrent of water several feet high full of fencing and anything not cemented into the ground by several feet. A fence quickly collects branches and becomes a dam till the water weight rips even 10-foot railroad ties with cement footings out of the ground.

My goat arena, normally 12 feet above the stream became a basin several feet below the broken banks above my neighbors. The pens flooded quickly and the fences were ripped out trapping my smaller kids before we could release them. Sadly several drowned but my larger yearlings and adults did except a few that died from hypothermia. I have to praise my neighbors Darren Leach and Eric Von Urff ho bravely volunteered and helped carry over 40 goats to dry land from the arena where water was enough to knock you down running at about 10 miles per hour.

Today it is finally dry and sunny but a foot or two of clay silt now 0overs 15 acres of the arena and surrounding fields. While applying for FEMA assistance I now have to build a temporary enclosure or two for my dry does and bucks who are in the dry under my three dairy trailers but I need feed and water from a broken well system.

The farm now has no access to its hillsides and half the 20 acres in the valley are unusable till the silt and mud are cleared I need a new water line at the dairy, extra hay to compensate for the lack of pastures and resources to build livestock shelters. We also need new fencelines to keep the bucks from enjoying their newly acquired freedom. Yes, this is the kidding season. ...and a lot more such as water troughs feeders nd mineral blocks many swept away or broken in the flood

My final note particularly to anybody who knew my previous Tres Pinos Evergreen Acres Grade A business. Since moving my milk is the same but the ranch is not certified. I am therefore building a business on the benefits of raw goat milk for pets who suffer as we do from poorly produced processed food designed to sit on a shelf for months rather than provide nutritious food to eat. Anybody who knows SFRaw and Kasie Maxwell who has also been flooded last week...but is supporting me and my business.....go check it out ..she is amazing. Stay tuned as I plan to have updates on TikTok and other social media with some help.

Mike Hulme

Mike's Guernsey Goats

22229 Airline Highway

Paicines, CA 95043