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    "Ditzy Goat CHEESE Recipes" Samssimonsays/Blazing Acres

    Bring milk to a froth, remove from heat, add in 1/4 cup apple cider vinegar per gallon and stir. Once whey separates, strain into a colander lined with cheese cloth and add in herbs and salt to taste. gently press (you will have to play around with what you like for dryness or how moist) and...
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    "Ditzy Goat CHEESE Recipes" Samssimonsays/Blazing Acres

    Wow! Adorable set up! I have so many recipes and have wanted to do soap (I'm supper sensitive to everything really) so I'd love to make my own more natural soaps. I've been afraid to try it but i finally have everything for making one recipe.
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    What did you do in the garden today?

    My cute baby sprouting garden veggies really went wild after I let them sit out in the sun yesterday! My sunflowers grew about 2 inches in a day and the cucs, melons and squash really took off! I hope to Till the garden this weekend and get everything planted. We are expecting all rain and...
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    "Ditzy Goat CHEESE Recipes" Samssimonsays/Blazing Acres

    Best of luck to you! I cannot stomach that one yet but maybe one day I will be able to... Funny enough I can not handle the texture of cheese.... It has always been an issue of mine. That and hamburger along with other things. Just weird LOL. But I do love making me some cheese and I torture...
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    "Ditzy Goat CHEESE Recipes" Samssimonsays/Blazing Acres

    @sumi Here is your Blue Cheese Recipe! I knew I had one.... TASTING NOTES FOR BUTTERMILK BLUE HOMEMADE CHEESE: Appearance: textured rind mottled with blue, grey, gold and white; firm cream coloured interior with blue veining Nose (aroma): umami inducing blue Overall Taste: a buttery tang on...
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    Samssimonsays everydays and what not

    That is my ever loving scarlet whom tore my new electric net fencing. She is very lucky she is so loving and adorable so i forgive her :lol: but that last one was pretty hard to do :hide
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    Frustratedearthmother's Journaling Journey

    :thi was doing $300 a month with the rabbits and i just couldn't anymore so they are gone... The goats, in summer, don't get too many extras so it's about $12 a bag a grain a week some times 10 days (for all goats) and then my only goat who is milking has a bag of grain i mix special for her...
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    A new journey into homesteading "pic heavy"

    Wow! I can't wait to follow along on this journey! You have done an amazing job this far and it looks to be going well!
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    Cackling Ranch - A journal of things and stuff.

    We were just there and expected to have been there again but it missed us yesterday. Hoping it misses us again today.... But it's coming. It does get to a person mentally. It's hard for it not to. Minnesota is one of the leading States with SAD - seasonal affected disorder so i get it fully...
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    Samssimonsays everydays and what not

    Hahaha come on over! I'll expect you by noon tuesday? :lol: It is farmers cheese with basil and garlic. I likey garlic lol.
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    Samssimonsays everydays and what not

    I had to make a quick cheese last night to use up some of the milk from olive and this is how it went!
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    Samssimonsays everydays and what not

    It was almost all gone when i got home early yesterday and..... They met me in the drive way :hide they suck. I don't know who is the culprit anymore because both tilda and scarlet now do horrible things to the fence.... :rolleyes: but scarlet makes up for it with this. Her love lol...
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    Farm Dogs

    Good Gracie! Stella woke me up one night basically jumping on me and so on. Got up and looked out the window she kept running to that overlooked the goats pen and there was something wrong. All goats but the herd queen at the time were in their shelter and she was at full alert. I got a...
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    Frustratedearthmother's Journaling Journey

    I had a vet tell me it's made differently now and they don't react even with having the gene :lol: now that's hilarious lol. We go to a different vet now.
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    Frustratedearthmother's Journaling Journey

    Stella, herding breeds can not have it with the MDR1 gene. Yes, we can have her tested for it to be sure (both parents were negative via parentage) but there is still a 50/50 chance she could react even if she is negative. With how close she is with the goats on a daily basis, she lurves her...
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    What did you do in the garden today?

    :lol::yuckyuck Not funny just how you said it made me LOL.
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    Frustratedearthmother's Journaling Journey

    I can't use anything with Ivermectin so I am strictly on safeguard or Valbazen. I have a couple like that too.
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    Frustratedearthmother's Journaling Journey

    Good luck on the property! I agree with the rain and mud FEM... we are still drying out here... more storms tomorrow and sunday too.... :hit the parasites are AWFUL!
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