A goat health record form is extremely important for keeping track of your goats' health care. Things like registration numbers, CD&T & BoSe shots (see CD/T & BoSe Injections For Goats), worming dates, breeding dates, kidding dates, number of kids, copper bolusing, and annual disease testing are all things that need to be documented all year long. It's also a good idea to keep records on feeding, milk production, and show awards. The form shown below is one that I ... continue reading...
Keto-Friendly Indonesian Ginger Chicken
This keto-friendly Indonesian Ginger Chicken is an extremely tasty recipe for chicken from Ina Garten's first cookbook The Barefoot Contessa. I've been making it for years, it's so easy and good. Basically, you marinate your chicken overnight in Asian seasonings and then put it in the oven and bake the next day. The results are great hot, warm, or cold. It makes an easy dish for entertaining - everyone seems to like it. I haven't made it much recently because we're trying to ... continue reading...
The Homestead Barn (Important Questions Before Building)
Planning the homestead barn is a very important step, and the better you know exactly what you want to do on your homestead, the better you can design your barn to accommodate your needs before building it. What To Consider When Planning The Homestead Barn Some important things to consider are how big, siting, flooring, electricity and water, livestock accommodations, feed storage, and handling manure. We could have done a better job of planning, so below are some ideas to ... continue reading...
Making Goat Milk Butter (with a KitchenAid mixer)
I've read that you need a cream separator (see one HERE) and butter churn for making goat milk butter, but we've come up with a method that doesn't require either of those pieces of equipment. Instead, we manually separate the cream from the goat milk and use a KitchenAid mixer to churn the butter. It takes a few days, but the cream in the goat milk does separate and rise to the top of the jars we use for storing the milk; so we just spoon the cream off and add it to a freezer ... continue reading...
What Causes Double Yolks?
Many folks question what causes chickens to sometimes produce double yolks in their eggs, so here's an attempt at the explanation. To Understand What Causes Double Yolk Eggs You Need To Learn About Hens Reproductive System A hen’s reproductive system (for more in-depth discussion click HERE) consists of an ovary and an oviduct. The ovary contains undeveloped egg yolks. The number of yolks (or ovum) that are contained here are the total number of eggs that the chicken can lay in her ... continue reading...
Monster Zucchini? Chickens Love Zucchini!
Chickens really do love zucchini! The recent rains were very welcome but caused some monster zucchini to grow in our garden – they are really much larger than I want to use for cooking. So, what's one to do with all those monster zucchini? Feed them to the chickens, of course. They'll eat them immediately and the zucchini are good for the chickens too. To feed zucchini to the chickens, simply split the zucchini in half down the middle, that gives the chickens access to ... continue reading...
Chickens Don’t Take Water Baths – They Take Dust Baths!
Watching a chicken take a dust bath is one of the funniest chicken behaviors to observe (but it's often disturbing the first time new chicken-keepers observe it). What Is Dust Bathing? The chickens find some warm, dry, loose material like dirt, sand, or mulch; and proceed to dig themselves in. They’ll dig and dig, throwing dirt all over themselves, and make happy noises while doing it. One place ours like to bath is beneath a window with a bench seat, and we enjoy sitting there ... continue reading...
What Are Polled Goats?
A “polled” goat (of any breed) is one that is naturally born without horns. Almond Joy in the first large picture below is polled while her sister Toffee in the second large picture below is not. You can see a small blackened area on Toffee's head where her horn buds have been burned off (a process called disbudding). In the photo to the right, the goat kid on the left is polled while the one on the right is horned. When they're babies, it's not always easy to tell which are polled and ... continue reading...
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