Taking stock
It’s that time of year: You take stock of the livestock. Our three Hyline Brown hens are three months into their third year of laying and should keep us in eggs for another eighteen...
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A lopsided life
Mangu, one of June’s dairy goats, had a lopsided udder this last month. Now she has evenly balanced sides but far too much milk for one tiny kid. As a result, we’re the ones...
Two teats good, one teat bad!
One teat bad! As any breast-feeding mum will tell you, both sides need milking out. Uppermost, or more to the point, uddermost in June’s mind for several weeks after a doe has kidded. If...
June and her goats: pt. 1
One of the more gratifying responses to this book … was that goat people … came out of the woodwork … and shared the same somewhat breathless secret: that living with ruminants somehow changed...
“Doing the dairy” in winter: Pt. 2
dairy n. 1. Room or building for keeping milk and cream and making butter, cheese, etc. (Definition from The Concise Oxford Dictionary.) We don’t have a dairy. In our house, a room for keeping...
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