Dairy goat management includes psychology, trust me.
When baby goats are born you need to separate out the babies and bottle feed them until they are weaned and then you can return them to the herd.
The video above shows what happens when your kids are piggish, dont wanna stop nursing, and the momma goat refuses to push them away.
Meet Nibblet! One of our new LaMancha baby goats.
Our goats have begun to deliver their babies. We had 3 arrive yesterday alone. Sort of tiring! I have posted a Flickr slideshow below for your viewing pleasure.
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If you can not see that, click here to go to that flickr set.
Enjoy a few shots in and around our humble homestead – silent raised beds, munching truculent goats and hesitant chickens as well as an aloof and rather disgusted llama.
Going out to feed the goats, chickens, and llama.
Snowy llama – her name is Misty but we are calling her Snowy right now.
Goats eating hay.
Maisy the goat, eating hay and saying hello to me.
The milking stanchion frozen over – so glad we are not milking right now.
I recently made an arrangement with a local grocery store (owned in MA but a BIG chain) to get some of their produce scraps for our chickens and goats.
The majority of their scraps go to pig farmers who drop off big oil barrels for the lettuce remnants that the pig food trader/merchant/dude picks them up later.
I love that we can take something considered waste and give it to our animals.
They LOVE these fresh greens!
I love it all because it fits in with the permacultural ethic by using a resource effectively and in a humane holistic way – Free inputs.
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We are a family of 5, including Nika, Ed, Q (13), KD (6), and Baby Oh (3). We garden 1024 square feet of raised beds plus assorted permacultural plantings. We also have 16 LaMancha dairy goats, 30 chickens, and one guard llama.
