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You'll do fine in college. When you're interested in the topic and want to learn, there's no problem. I always loved my students who showed an interest in being in my class. Ask lots of questions.

OK, I'm jumping in.... I live in Belize, Central America. We have 15 acres of old sugarcane field and lots of marl and limestone rocks. Currently, we have 3 doe goats (all of unknown heritage), 4 babies (3 bucks, 1 doe) born in November, 3 cats and 2 dogs (1 Briard and 1 Belize breed). I'd love...

Love my 3 does and 4 babies. OB, not so much right now because he smells so bad. He'll be my bud again when he quits peeing on himself and I can give him a bath. It's going to be hard to sell off the "boys" at the end of the month. I have to reeducate every one who stops by our farm. They think...

Gosh, do you ever need the Holiday Break time. It's coming...patience a bit longer. My hugs to you. :love

Tropical kudzu. I know it is illegal in some states but I asked at a store here in Belize what I could plant for the goats. He have me Aries Grass and Tropical Kudzu. I put the kudzu around the fence so it could vine on the chain link but I don't see that happening. But the girls sure do eat a...

I try to grow stuff that both the goats and we can eat. I love yellow wax beans. I got the beans and when they weren't producing much anymore, goats got the plants. I grow lab-lab beans for both goats and us people. Goats see me going out to the garden and they're lined up at the fence waiting...

No avocados. I've read that goats should not have the fruit nor the leaves from avocados.

that makes me feel better. I gave all the milk today to the cats and dogs.

The milk from Pepper this morning wouldn't go through the filter. Filter has creamy thickness in the bottom. No strings. No curds. Not lumps. When I ran my fingers across the filter, it just smeared, just as cream does. Pepper has a one month old, big boy nursing on her. Also 2 days ago she had...

The twin bucks attack the food bowl but the other 2 babies aren't interested yet. I'm putting mill feed, which is the bran and bits of grains, a bit of ground corn, out for the babies. I put a big bowl of mill feed mixed with minerals for the mama's if they want a snack. I just didn't want to...

When should I start putting food out for the kids to nibble. And how do I keep them from climbing in the bowl or pawing it over with their feet. They climb into mama's bowl and lick up bits of stuff. We do not have hay in Belize. Kids are nibbling on browse a bit.

Should a doe come back in heat just a few weeks after kidding? Pepper had her kid, a big boy, on Nov 8 and she is now chasing and loving up on the buck. Am I going to have to keep poor OB away from the girls until next summer? He gets tethered outside of the pen under the overhang so that mama's...

Such good farm fun!!! I couldn't get the Internet to load pages yesterday (too much traffic and too slow a link) on our 128K link so I missed out on the potty party. What city folk miss out on...farm humor. Just wait until the boys pee on the electric fence!

Way cool picture but you know what they say about sleeping with pigs!!! Kitty will get a bad reputation :love

Give me the tropics any time. I can cool off a lot easier than I can get warm once chilled. I grew up in Erie, PA. and froze my buns every winter. Now 65 degrees seems cold and I'm grabbing a long sleeve shirt :cool:

I do have a stanchion. She just plops her backside down. I haven't milker her yet today because hubby is pouring concrete. When he's done, Leah will be on the milking stand. I'll have him install an eye bolt. She lays down to trim her hoofs also but that wasn't a problem at the time. I guess I...

I will give my two cents worth from the Belize point of view. Fruta Bomba, which is a part of Brooks Tropicals out of Florida, grows papaya. They are GM trees for fast growth and quantity of fruit. They are "Round Up Ready" plants. That means that they must use a specific version of Round Up for...

This morning wasn't as stressful but we have to use the bucket upside down and husband has to hold her legs up or I can't get to her udder. She did eat while I milked instead of bellowing so maybe progress is being made. But he's not available to help everyday so I don't know how I can do it by...

I tried a 5-gal bucket, known here as pig tail or lard buckets instead of pickle buckets, this morning. Didn't work. She is too short by a bit to stand the bucket upside down and put sideways, she just squashed it. I did manage to milk out some so she didn't win. Every time she lays down we take...

I'll try that in the morning. Just had the last doe kid. A big, bouncing boy.