Anyone know of any? A friend of ours was asking, and I wasn’t sure what to recommend. There are plenty of books devoted to the home cheesemaker. But we’re looking for a book that covers home dairy animals – selection, breeding, milking, management, birthing, the whole shebang. A section on home cheesemaking would be a [...]
Posts Tagged ‘goat KIDS!’
A good home dairy book
Posted in Miscellaneous, Musings, tagged Cheese Making, dairy goats, goat care, goat KIDS!, goats milk soap on June 9, 2010 | 4 Comments »
In which I attempt to cover a month of events
Posted in Farm Happenings, Miscellaneous, tagged Bette Davis, build it!, chickens, do it yourself, donut, doris day, goat KIDS!, goats, Huck, spring mill farm, sweet roll, xenia on May 12, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Wow, there is so much to say with the latest events over the past few weeks since the last post. Forgive me, dear readers (hello? anyone?), but let me indulge you in the latest from Spring Mill. Chicken: It’s What’s for Dinner Two weeks ago, on a Sunday morning, we processed our old laying hens. [...]
growing like weeds
Posted in farm, Farm Happenings, Foodie, goat, Musings, tagged abba, Cheese Making, donut, doris day, fred astaire, goat KIDS!, goats, humphrey bogart, memphis, Musings, rock hudson, spring mill farm, sweet roll, xenia on April 27, 2010 | 2 Comments »
The goat kids are growing like weeds. I weighed them the other night, they average around 30 pounds, just over one month old. Fred and Bogart (Memphis’ kids) are the biggest, and the youngest. Their bone structure is much more substantial, while Rock and Doris (Abba’s kids) are taller, leaner, but weigh more than you [...]
Finding time
Posted in Farm Happenings, tagged doris day, goat KIDS!, goats, Huck, memphis, spring mill farm on April 19, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Some days it’s so hard to find the time to do everything I need to do. On those days, besides not getting my “to-do” list completed, the blog doesn’t get updated. Take the past few weeks as an example. The goat kids are growing like weeds. I need to weigh them, because I seriously think [...]
Memphis becomes a Mom
Posted in Farm Happenings, tagged abba, doris day, fred astaire, goat KIDS!, goats, humphrey bogart, jacqsonne, memphis, rock hudson, spring mill farm on March 25, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Tuesday morning we decided that if Memphis wasn’t showing any signs of progress we would give her a shot of lutalyse to induce her. The theory is, the average dairy goat gestation is 145-155 days. Monday was day 150 for Memphis’ pregnancy, and we were worried about having her hold the kids too long. Then [...]
Oh Happy Day!
Posted in Farm Happenings, tagged abba, doris day, goat KIDS!, rock hudson, spring mill farm on March 22, 2010 | 7 Comments »
I woke up to my alarm clock going off at 3:30am for a middle of the night check on the pregnant does. As I laid in bed, urging my body to cooperate and get up, I heard a goat cry out, and in response I heard a much smaller cry. I jumped out of bed, [...]
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