Self-reliance is fantastic. I guess then your question is what do you need to raise your goats and keep them healthy without any store purchases.
1) Lots of land with lots or woody browse and trees for goats to consume. More than just a couple of acres because the nutritional needs of the...
When just keeping a few goats and with having limitation on land, very few anywhere at all in a civilized nation are completely off the grid and still raising livestock in any capacity. Self-sufficiency definitely comes in degrees. We are able and have the know how to handle birds, goats...
I'd got higher dosage, not lower but that's just me. With so many resistant strains of cooties out there, I'd thunk underdosing worse than slight overdose.
And since I am going to be showing my bucks, your name might just POP out there in ring. Well I'm on board! Whenever your friends are ready to travel, we will be there. THANK YOU!!!!
THREE YEARS IN A ROW!! THREE!!!! I checked Lily at 7 this morning-nada, udder not full, just chewing hay. I checked her at 1, just before I ran to the store with my kids-nada.
I come back at 3 and BAM, there are triplets in the pen. Are you kidding me Lily! I mean, I am glad she doesn't...
I am getting a buck out of Desert Nanny this year http://desertnanny.net/ and am keeping my one buckling who I think will be a good pick. We have one other guy that I am going to use for one more year before moving him on.
I have to do kids today. We had the x30 with the fixed pygmy tip---big mistake! I don't even know why they sell the pygmy tip because it is really too small and we had to do several burns to ensure the job was done. The x50 is much better and no scurs here. We do the figure 8.