Jumping the Moon Dairy - the next chapter

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It is @Southern by choice and @Goat Whisperer fault that I own so many to begin with. And now I am thinking a borrowing a couple of Nubians to try and get Southern a mini Nubian buckling. :barnie As a matter of fact if Southern had just told me I was crazy to build a dairy at 56 years old I wouldn't even be in this predicament. But no...she had to tell me it was a GREAT idea, and I believed her. :th
 
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Haha! Well kudos to you for pursuing it. It just sounds exhausting to me! Then again, I am drowning in non goat related things so I hardly have time to even consider something like that.

So the moral of the story is... Never ask anyone on this site if you should get more goats!
 
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babsbag said:
It is @Southern by choice and @Goat Whisperer fault that I own so many to begin with. And now I am thinking a borrowing a couple of Nubians to try and get Southern a mini Nubian buckling. :barnie As a matter of fact if Southern had just told me I was crazy to build a dairy at 56 years old I wouldn't even be in this predicament. But no...she had to tell me it was a GREAT idea, and I believed her. :th
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:lol::lol::lol::yuckyuck
 
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babsbag said:
I did visit them. They were really not doing much dairy goat wise anymore, they were getting their milk trucked in and focusing on the cheese. Beautiful facility though and that is neat that they sold to workers.

Buffalo Creek Dairy was really the one that convinced me that I can do this. Also Pholia Farms in OR...they are kinda my role models. Celebrity was too big for me, and Ripshin was no longer making cheese but she was very helpful showing me her facility and the plans that her son drew for them. I gleaned bits and pieces from all of the dairies I visited that week. Also went to one in VA but for the life of me can't remember the name. They were no longer making cheese either and their codes were a little more lax than NC or CA.
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They don't milk any goats any more
The own 300 but they are all
Contracted out to another farm
They buy all the milk from several other dairies
And the majority of their cheese is made from frozen curd
Apparently you can still be considered an artisan cheese maker when you truck in frozen curd
Funny thing is they are considered a large small operation
Like jumbo shrimp I guess
 
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They can make artisan cheese but not farmstead cheese. For me it is really about the goats. In the long run if I could find someone to make the cheese I would be quite happy taking care of the goats and doing the business stuff. Maybe that day will come.
 
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@babsbag

This was on FB had to share this with you! Based on our conversation the other day! :lol::lol::lol:

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We started a dairy farm from nothing but a barn that had 50 year old stanchions and nothing else. Every day is a battle but for some reason we press on hoping it will be worth it? ☮❤️

:lol::lol::lol::lol::lol:
 
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Well it won't be the price I wanted but I might still get it. The guy that owns it inherited half of it and he bought out the other heir. He was really led astray by a money hungry realtor that talked him into cleaning up the land, and pricing it way above market. He isn't from this area at all, he had never even seen the land until last week so he took her advice and he now has more invested in the property than what I wanted to offer. But I want this land so I will offer more and if it doesn't appraise we will go from there. I am buying it as a farm through the USDA so there are still a lot of hoops to jump through but the formal offer should go in this week.
 
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