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It was not a political discussion it was a factual discussion about laws and/or regulations that affects people with goats and sheep. We were all over NAIS when Bush was in office, but we can't talk about something like this? That is wrong! And it does not need to handled by PM it needs to be...

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When solids float it can mean several things, but mainly yeast and bacterias. The pros say that you have a 50/50 chance of something in there you don't want. I don't think it is that bad, but you can easily smell the yeast if it is yeast. Often that is what gets into our cheese and yogurt...

I have never made yogurt from frozen milk, but after leaving the yogurt sit for about a week it will begin to separate like you have described. I normally pour off the whey and put it back in the fridge. Typically as long as the solids sink everything is ok. When the solids float on the whey...

We work closely with some meat buyers and mostly they won't touch a wether. Intact, perfect animals, both sheep and goats are needed for Muslim and Jewish buyers. Our Jamaican customers don't really need perfect, but they do want intact goats. Our Indian customers want young just weaned...

I am leaving the computer on with the recipe open, so that when my DW wakes she will see it...

A Guernsey cow might actually be better. Our cow maybe special though, but she can produce up to 6 gallons a day of milk (when I am milking her twice a day), but just a once a day milking produces enough cream to make just over 5 lbs. of butter a week. Which would be great if we had 11 kids or...

We were pretty good at making Chevre and some of the softer cheeses, but we never had good results from making harder cheese. This website put us on the right track and our first attempt at making a mozzarella type cheese using the information from this website worked wonderfully. Today I am...

Hi all - I recently found a website for making cheese that really helped me to step up our cheese making. Cheese making is part science and part art, but you have to be able to do the science part before you can do the art part. Anyway, when you get to the page, follow the links to the...

Your goats look perfect just the way they are! From what I can tell from the pictures, it looks as tho they don't have any Nubian in them. Look at their ears. A goat that is part Nubian will almost always have "airplane ears". (They will stick straight out from the head and the last few inches...

Several people have stated that they don't worry about cooling the milk quickly. I suppose it depends on a persons idea of quickly. Yes, as my husband said earlier, we put our milk in 1/2 gallon jars, label them and put in the fridge. (on the bottom shelf). However, when it's 95 degrees outside...

Take some of your milk, cool it, then warm it up, then cool it, then warm it up, then cool it and taste it. You will then have a reasonable facsimile of store bought goat milk. We have a filter that goes with us and we filter as soon as it leaves the goat, but then we just put it in half...

I just checked the link to look at the pictures and saw that you are originally a Cheesehead! So am I! I am originally from Milton, Wi. and live just north of Danville, Va. Small world! (chris) I can tell you an extremely quick way to raise the body condition, but the problem is you have to...

Excess goat milk? When I bake, if a recipe calls for milk I use goat milk in exactly the same way that I would use cow milk. When I make sauces with cream ( from the cow milk), if the sauce needs to be thinned, I thin it with goat milk. Use it in pudding (either cooked or instant). In fact, the...

I did it last year in one paddock and missed it this year. The amount of money I saved on anthelmintics like Ivermec, Cydectin and Safeguard was astounding. Though this year was a bit more wet than last year, I was obviously about 3 weeks late with the boluses. My thought for next year is...

Good points. We should be checking gums first and eyelids second though. Lighting conditions can affect the color you see in eyelids more than in the gums and typically when anemia sets in, the gums are paler or beginning to turn blueish which is quite easy to see. Anemia in other words means...

Not sure which to explain... But a goat that young being banded is asking for trouble. Giving the CD&T shot every two weeks is recommended, because the kid will not get any benefit from the shot until he is at least 8 weeks old (according to our vet and the manufacturer of most vaccines)...

the above questions are extremely valid and important. We have found that handling of the milk is as much or more important than what they are eating. You should be using stainless steel or glass to milk into and only glass to store the milk. Also get it cold as fast as possible. Our fridge...

:yuckyuck :lau We had a bottle baby nubian buck that really liked the does, but he couldn't understand why he couldn't sit in my lap as he grew. I could not let anyone in his pasture with him because he really liked to greet me by putting his front hooves on my shoulders so he could rub...

If I could not take the kid to a vet that is familiar with goats I would leave the band on and give a tetanus anti-toxin and start him on a cd&t regimen. At his age you will have to give him CD&T toxoid every two weeks until he is at least 12 weeks old. If you can take him to the vet, get the...