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The article traces their shift from learning to milk Boer and Nubian goats through trial and error to producing goat milk soap, plus cheeses and ice cream. It emphasizes how “happy goats” influence milk quality, how essential oils guide scent choices, and how their soap is promoted for skin benefits such as moisturizing and hypoallergenic care.","Co-op News  \nWOOD COUNTY ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE   \nHappy Goats. Happy Wife. Happy Life.  \n~~ ~~ BY PAIGE EATON ~~ ~~  \nKRISTEN TJERNLUND HAS CRACKED the code for a charmed existence.“You just can’tbe unhappy around baby goats,” she says.“You just can’t!”  \nShe must be on to something, as a search for “baby goats” on YouTube proves. You’ll get about 550,000 results, including baby goats playing, bleating, flipping, jumping, drinking from bottles, head-butting, wearing pajamas and climbing on everything—including each other. If the “Internet of things” is a gauge, baby goats DO make people happy.  \nWhile most just like to spend time watching goats on YouTube or America’s Funniest Home Videos, Kristen sought the real-life experience, and her affable and easygoing husband, Don, is happily going along.  \nKristen retired in 2012 from a career in information technology with Fortune 500 companies such as American Airlines and Chase Manhattan. She had wanted goats since her childhood in Long Island, New York, but her parents never agreed  \nFROM TOP: Proprietors of Tjernlund Goat Farm Soaps, Kristen and Don Tjernlund, find joy in their pet goats and satisfaction in helping others. One of Tjernlund Farm’s 39 pet goats seems to smile with contentment as some of the herd relaxes in the background.  \n18 Texas Co-op Power WOOD COUNTY EC June 2016  \nto that. Then years of balancing work with child-rearing and family life never jelled with that wish.“I don’t know why I have always wanted goats, but I just love them,” she says. When their five children were grown, and she and Don bought their 13-acre Grand Saline Farm, she finally got her goats.  \nThe Tjernlund herd started out as four pet Boer goats: three nannies (females) and a buck (male) that Kristen found in Canton. At first, she says,“I didn’t know anything about goats other than I liked them.” Kristen and Don were just merrily enjoying their pet goats and life on the farm until Don, a service engineer who travels for his work maintaining research laboratory equipment, brought Kristen some goat milk soap.“Once I tried this soap, I fell in love with it and I thought, ‘Why am I not doing that?’” she says.“So we then went and got some milk goats.”  \nThere was a learning curve, for sure—especially since neither she nor Don had ever milked a goat before.“Everything I have done, I have learned on the Internet,” Kristen says.“I’ve said,‘Let’s see what I can find out about this,’ and then I have  \ntried it.” With his low-key, agreeable humor, Don chimes in:“When we figure it out, we’ll let you know.”  \nSome of their learning has been achieved by trial and error.  \n[wcec.org](wcec.org)  \nKristen relays the story of her first milk goat, Juanita, a Nubian goat they bought at a sale barn. They did not know if Juanita had ever been milked before, but they did know she was “in milk” since she was nursing her kid, who also came with the deal. The Tjernlunds successfully milked Juanita.“The milk was horrible!” Kristen says.“That’s when we learned that goats under stress do not give good milk.” She says she thinks Juanita was stressed from the sale barn experience. Plus, when Juanita got to their farm, the Boer goat herd did not accept her right away. Nubian goats look quite different than Boers. It took several months for Juanita to fit in and feel adjusted.“Then the milk started tasting good,” Kristen says.“That’s when I realized happy goats make good milk.”  \nThe Tjernlund goats are pets first, but they also contribute to what is becoming a growing cottage business, first sparked by Don’s soap gift. Their herd now numbers 39 and includes Boers, which primarily are bred as meat goats, and Nubian and Alpine milk goats. 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