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...
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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...
“Doing the dairy” in winter: Pt. 1
You won’t be surprised to learn that June says she’s “doing the dairy”. A main difference between doing the dairy in winter compared to the other seasons, is that with milk production down, there...
Foraging for walnuts: Pt. 2
Foraging for walnuts, I’m reminded of a squirrel foraging for acorns. Afterwards we’ll squirrel away the nuts, hers for winter, ours rationed to last a year. Grey squirrels must have had some great food...
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