I'm pretty sure we've done this subject before, but here I go again :P:) Oh maybe that was in a journal...
anyway, I agree with all the above. I am learning how to grow food, how to provide health care for my family, and how to get along on less if need be. I would really like to start hunting...
No. I quit milking earlier than I planned. Turns out I'm a fair weather milker and the weather wasn't fair at all for so many months. And the summer hay I bought had very little alfalfa so their production decreased alot. I hope next year is better.
Tanks - I use 1/2 tomato sauce and 1/2 homemade sweet chili sauce that I can - recipe from the Ball Blue book - so it has onions and peppers and vinegar, sugar, and spices - like a pickling spice mix. It's yum!
But here's the recipe I use -and then change :P I do not put cheese on it, haven't...
On my menu this week is Veggie-beef soup and toasted cheese sandwiches, cabbage roll casserole, a salad night with grilled shrimp, and eggs and pancakes and sausage.
You can print off a member registration application and send it in. On that you will list what you want for a herdname and the tattoo you want. You want to keep the herdname kind of short because they only allow for 35 spaces for the goat's enitre name. So DizzyDogRanch would be pretty good, or...
You will need to just get a membership. What I did was become a member, chose a herdname and tatoo (that's for anything born on your property) and you send in the papers and they will officially transfer ownership to you. The website is helpful and they are pretty good about answering questions...
Aww, you are not a failure!
That's a tough dog problem to solve. I sure don't have an answer, so :hugs
Cross you fingers for me that Little Dude got the job done. He's moving on soon and I don't want to have to chase him down from across the state in a couple weeks :P and then I'd have to...
Howdy SD :frow
It's still raining:( It has rained every day this week. But now it's really cold - around 50 degrees.
There is quite the goat drama going on today. Lil' Dude's heat detector got tripped today so he's chasing Perdy around but she's not into it. :P She' very politely declines his...
Woot! :cool:
NT is an awesome book.
One tip - don't let NT overwhelm you. That book is so chock full of info that you will be finding new things even a year from now.
edit : Free and I posted at the same time :D