Holachicka ~ Up till 3 am, but...

[TanksHill]

Free, did you see she asked what to do with the Whey????



Lot's and lots of things. Keep it in a jar in your fridge. You can use it for fermenting. I have only done beets and sauerkraut. Free is an expert.

The Book is Nourishing Traditions by Sally Fallon and it is amazing.


5 acres??? That is awesome.


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Well, I am working my way towards goats. Slowly.... We have just under 2 acres and I'm on a hill. So I try to keep everything in close proximity to the house. I have an acre of hillside but it's not the greatest to access. No power and I would need to run the water lines.

I missed the whey comment and this one, reading on the fly.

As for you, young lady Gina, stop being such a woos! (sp?) I started out with no power or water to my barn and actually did some winter chores with a small flashlight in my MOUTH when I needed two hands! Got power later, still have no water. Run a hose all summer, and haul water all winter. They don't drink as much in the winter and I like to have warm water for them anyways. Goats don't drink THAT much.....I've had horses, after all! Get yer goat! There IS someone near you who will milk, you just have to find them. Find the local WAPF chapter and there you will find someone or will be referred to someone willing to learn in exchange for the milk.

Whey...... feed to pigs, poultry, dogs (in moderation). Freeze in ice cube trays for later use in fermenting veggies/grains. Use in soaking beans for cooking, or for soaking the grains for the goats themselves to unlock the nutrients and the mineral blockers. Use excess if you still have too much to boost the compost pile, or water it down and water your plants with it. This is for whey made with cultures, not vinegar or lemon juice, though.

 

[TanksHill]

Err.....yes mam.


I'm working on it.

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Err.....yes mam.


I'm working on it.

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And sit up straight and stick your chest out!!!





Hee-hee-hee!

 

[Henrietta23]

Besides, G, goats don't mind hills at all!!
Free does not back down. You MUST get a goat. For cryin' outloud she met me at the farm and all but picked mine out for me! Granted I live a little closer to her than you do....

 

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Just learned I can make ricotta cheese with whey!

 

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Besides, G, goats don't mind hills at all!!
Free does not back down. You MUST get a goat. For cryin' outloud she met me at the farm and all but picked mine out for me! Granted I live a little closer to her than you do....

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!! Er, I mean.....um.......Donkee sure is cute! But didn't I pick out Stella?

 

[Britesea]

yup, ricotta has got to be the easiest cheese in the world to make. Just heat it, cool it, and strain it. I love the idea of getting two kinds of cheese out of the same batch of milk.

 

[Holachicka]

Oh! Anyone have a link on how to make the ricotta? I'm making vinegar cheese with todays milk, 3/4 a gallon! I was super nervose that no one would drink any of the milk, so after straining, I took a small amount and put it in a jar in the freezer to cool quickly. When it was nice and cold, I gave everyone a taste. The kids chugged it, and DH said, you're playing a trick on me right? this is just the milk out of the gallon (cows milk) in the fridge! Lol! He liked it, and even started brainstorming... Saying well, if she is going to give us that much milk, we probably can stop buying it from the store... This kind of a statement is *HUGE* from DH, He confessed that his only real problem with it is that he doesn't know much about it and worries about things traveling from the goat into the milk that may make us sick. I'll have to find a safety fact sheet of some sort to put his mind at ease... If you know of any, please share!!

So my first milking went well! I don't have a milk stand so DH came out to help hold her still because the grain I have for her isn't the same sweet feed she's used to and she lost interest in it pretty quick. It took a while for me to get a good rythm going because she kept moving about and I had to keep snatching the jar away so she wouldn't knock it over. by the end she settled down and I got going pretty well. YAY!

Scored at the thrift shop today! I make out bread and found a plastic storage thingy and one of those things to make even slices for $1.99. I've been looking for a while for something like that.

Tanks, just give in gracefully, the peer pressure will only get worse! Our 5 acres is pretty nice, but it is a lot of work!! We live in a high fire zone and have to keep the brush cleared or the fire dept will come out and have a talk with you. Glad they care enough to! But that was the way I talked DH into goats!

 

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Ricotta is a simple matter of heating the whey to just under boiling and straining it. You don't get much because most of the solids are already in the cheese you just made....it is a way of gleaning the last of the solids. Some whey yields more ricotta than others, depends on the type of cheese made. I've never made it with vinegar cheese.

For scholarly articles on raw milk, go to www.westonaprice.org and put something like raw milk safety in the search. Or raw milk facts, something like that. I got my first dairy goat specifically so I could have raw milk from an animal on pasture without driving 2.5 hours round trip.