Devonviolet Acres

[frustratedearthmother]

That looks delish! I make Chevre a lot - but have never tried Mozzarella! Guess I'm going to have to find a recipe now.

 

[Devonviolet]

That looks delish! I make Chevre a lot - but have never tried Mozzarella! Guess I'm going to have to find a recipe now.

I looked for a while, and ended up using the recipe for 30 minute mozzarella cheese at the New England Cheese site:

https://www.cheesemaking.com/howtomakemozzarellacheese.html

It calls for 1 gallon of milk, but since I can get 2 gallons in my stainless steel pail, I doubled the recipe.

 

[Baymule]

WOW! That is awesome!! That is some beautiful cheese! Now you need some crusty French garlic bread to eat with that fabulous cheese!

 

[frustratedearthmother]

Thanks for the link! I have GOT to try that!

 

[Devonviolet]

Thanks for the link! I have GOT to try that!

Yes, you really should. Follow the instructions and it will go fine.

 

[Devonviolet]

It's with great sadness, that I tell y'all that we just sold our four ND wethers.

Now that we have the LaMancha's, which were disbudded, and the wethers have horns, we couldn't put the girls and kids with the wethers, because we have seen them use their horns when fighting each other.

I've had them listed on Craigs List for a while, and went down on the price twice now. We agonized over selling them, because we knew that they could be bought for the purpose of butchering - and that is what these 3 young men are doing.

So, I mentioned that we want to put the goats out in the field, but can't find anyone to help us with the fencing. The "spokesman" for the three guys laughed, and I said, "What, do y'all do fencing." And he said, "Yes".

So, I took him back & showed him roughly what we want fenced, and told him we have six 220 foot rolls of woven wire & a pallet of T-posts and are planning to use cedar trees from the woods, for wood posts & H-posts. He said,they will come back tomorrow morning, with his wheel, to measure the distance & will give us a price.

I said "Money is tight, so we may not be able to afford you." And he said, "Well, I'm sure we can at least get y'all a pen for the goats." So, it sounds like he might just keep the price affordable for us.

When they took the goats out to the livestock trailer, the dogs went bonkers. But, once the boys were gone, we moved the girls and kids over to the goat yard, with the dogs, and it was a totally seamless transfer. The dogs seemed at peace, and the kids were having a blast running & jumping. Falina & Ruby (who were in separate pens before) were head butting each other and when one of the kids, (that didn't belong to her) went by, each of the girls head butted them. But for the most part, everyone seemed happy with their new home.

 

[Mike CHS]

It sounds like the details may be falling in line with the way you need it to.

 

[CntryBoy777]

Tho, ya have said good bye to the "Boys", it could turn into a "Win-Win" for ya in getting things done for a reasonable price, and future business when there are others to let go of, since ya plan on milking for the foreseeable future....just think of it like "Pruning" a fruit tree....ya may lose some fruit now, but the quality of the next fruit should be better....

 

[Mike CHS]

If we had an unlimited budget I would keep all of our critters just as a personal petting zoo but that won't pay the bills.

 

[Devonviolet]

Isn't that the truth????? As sweet as Woody and Linden are, we are planning to sell them also.

Woody is 3-1/2 old, so it is time to wean him. Linden and Angelica will be three months old on the 20th of this month. I am really hoping we can afford to, at least, fence the front acre of the pasture behind the goat yard. That will make it a lot easier to separate the kids from their moms.

So, when we went out to feed the animala, I got some photos of them in their new home.