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...painting chalk outlines on ground in woods sounds like a fun idea too. I think I'll wait until after halloween though. I'd like to be taken seriously. Trace me some kids. But I may just stick to highly visible paint, maybe get the property marked officially while I'm at it.

Oh, and @farmerjan , if the milk tastes funny whatever you do don't drink it. It will make you hate it. Goat milk should taste like just milk or half and half in the case of nigerians-unless they were fed something odd (nutrena textured feed or some weeds) or were drying up or producing colostrum...or I guess not handled properly or stored too long. Goat milk is fussy. But when it's good it's good.
 

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The purple paint might just be a Texas thing. A bucket of paint sure is cheaper than a bunch of no trespassing signs.
That is for sure, plus we have to pay $5/year to officially post land.

I have had goat milk from the health food store. It is from a dairy maybe 15 miles from me as the crow flies. I honestly couldn't tell the difference between it and cow's milk.
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I think that the goats milk I had was "off flavored" from something they ate/were fed. But it turned me "off" of goats milk. I think I need to have some that I don't know is goats milk, good and cold and hopefully tasting just like cow milk. My jerseys have pretty high butterfat so am used to "creamy milk".
 

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It is possible you just don't like goat milk too. Jersey milk sounds wonderful. My youngest keeps telling me to get him a little cow because he wants cow milk, not goat milk and he doesn't like goat milk. He's 4 and he says there is always a difference and so far we can't trick him (and no cow for 4 year olds, btw,plus we don't have grass). I'm willing to bet that some people really are able to tell the difference every time-super tasters or something along those lines.

This is going to sound funny, but after selling the two dwarfs even though I brought home a medium-large goat, I feel like our hay consumption has gone down sharply. We're not even completely emptying a hay bag per day anymore. How much did those little goats eat?
 

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@Baymule , I don't live in Mass, like @rachels.haven , but lived in Ct just below it and traveled through it to go to the property our family had in Vt as a kid. Mass was one place you didn't want to stop in, and got through as quickly as possible and we are talking either interstate or back country roads. The state had a reputation for being as unfriendly to "real country type" people as any around. Most were ashamed to say it was a New England state. NO JOKE. Vermont was much more farmer friendly then, especially the more rural parts, NH and Maine were better. Believe me, there are rules to follow the rules in Mass.

Now you all know one of the reasons for my move south. Besides wanting more "growing season" weather, for farming.

The saddest thing about Va now, is the influences from DC getting worse, and honestly, all the Yankees moving down and then wanting it to be just like where they came from in amenities; and where they can spend their money made in the more affluent areas, and then tell the poorer locals what to do. There are some really fighting to keep it an ag state because it is one of the biggest revenues here, but the sprawl, and the ones wanting these 20 acre mini-farms, that are really only tax write offs, are making it harder for us to farm it practically. I am not against trying to improve the water, as an area that is in the Chesapeake Bay watershed, but some of the rules have bordered on ABSURD.

My dad was in lake dredging in CT for over 40 years. By the time he retired, there were more rules about wetlands than you can imagine. If a place had water lay for a day after a "monsoon type rain" they were declaring it a wetlands. I mean it was so far out in left field that you wouldn't believe it. He spent as much time the last 10 years in meetings, applying for permits, sitting through meetings explaining the process, and then having to explain to all the DUMB, right out of school EXPERTS, Why it would not work what they wanted him to do. This is someone that could take the bucket of the machine and grade the bank of a pond so that it could be just planted in grass..... He had a talent for what he did, and understood the land and the water possibilities and carrying capacity.
One thing that used to really frost his **** , was the ones that were trying to preserve areas that were more swamp than actual true wetlands.....then have them turn around and DECRY the mosquito problems and the diseases they carried.....Then want to go in and spray with chemicals to kill them.....which would kill the predators of the mosquitos....when in a true working wetland, the balance would keep alot of those populations in check. You can't believe the "STUPID" that some of them would come up with.
 

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