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Making Goat Milk Yogurt
Thanks to our friend Tagan, we have found a fabulous way to make beautiful yogurt with our abundance of goat milk on applewood farm. Up until now, we’ve made chèvre (it was fine) and ricotta (good, but with limited uses), … Continue reading
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The Udder One
Our two goats, Dot and Janie, have a pretty nice set-up on our little farm. Their water bucket is heated to prevent freezing, they always have a good deal of hay, they get fed a mixture of organic goat pellets … Continue reading
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Tagged alfalfa, applewood farm, goat feeder, goat milk, goat shed, goats, hormonal milk, Janie and dot, milking pail, pellets, precocious goat, small-scale farming
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Go(a)t Milk?
Janie The Precocious Goat is still making milk. Back at the beginning of May, I wrote a piece about Janie making milk without having been bred (you can read that post here: https://applewoodfarm.wordpress.com/2014/05/04/shes-not-kidding/). At the time, we really didn’t know whether … Continue reading
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Tagged applewood farm, baby deer, deer, deer hunting, fawns, frolicking, goat milk, hunting season, Janie the goat, pigs, precocious goat, rehabilitation, release, sanctuary, stanchion, udders, wildlife, wildlife sanctuary
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She’s Not Kidding
The other day, my friend Malene called to ask if I’d be interested in adopting a goat from her friend, Terry. She said that Terry’s second-to-last goat had died the night before and this left Janie, an eight-year-old Nubian-Saanan mix, all … Continue reading
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Tagged bleating, buck, doe, Dot, goat milk, goat snacks, goats, head-butting, Janie, milk, milking stand, Nubian, precocious goat, Ramyu, Saanan, stanchion, udder
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Learning to Milk
Milking a goat is not an activity that comes naturally to a human–at least not to this human. It took a couple of days to fall into a rhythm with Cindy and, after all, being milked was a totally new … Continue reading
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Tagged bag balm, fresh chevre, goat milk, goats, head catch, milking goats, milking stand, ricotta cheese, udder wash
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