Baby goats usually don't have to be bottle fed. Sometimes, though, a mother goat will reject a kid for reasons that only Mother Nature understands. If a doe has not accepted a kid within 24 hours, you can count on bottle feeding the kid to help it survive. Plan on at least eight w...
so the does are not nutritionally impacted by the cold, and the kids have a chance to acclimate before deep winter arrives. Tina prefers to kid in winter, because it is too nice in the summer, and she can’t go fishing when she is bottle-feeding. ...
I’ve been using it on and off for some years and know how challenging it can initially be to use, though. That’s why I’m sharing this recipe with you. It’s a natural cold-process goat milk soap recipe that uses liquid goat milk and a simple technique that ensures that your fina...
This involves leaving the babies on the mama goat to raise. If you are short on time and unable to provide a baby with a bottle every 4-6 hours, then this might be the best option for you. You won't have to milk the doe to feed the milk back to the baby every few hours, and...
How to stop bottle feeding at night So, your child is over six months of age, growing well, and still feeding frequently at night. If you child drinks milk (breast, cow, goat, or otherwise) or formula, this is relatively straightforward. There are two ways to to wean this, and I hav...
Anyone who has ever owned a labrador retriever knows that it takes minutes after a bath for them to smell like a goat with a skunk scented albatross hanging around its neck. The stink clings to their coats and gets left behind on anything they rub against. Which is mostly my carpet, couc...
Whenever we haveGalettes Bretonnesfor lunch or dinner, it takes me back toBrittany, the region in France where my family lives and where I spent most of my holidays as a kid. I dream of the ocean, the Celtic legends and hear bagpipe music in my head. Travel to Brittany with this galet...
(a food I ate a good deal of), a little bottle of rum, half a goat, and powder and shot for killing more, and two large watch-coats, of those which, as I mentioned before, I had saved out of the seamen's chests; these I took, one to lie upon, and the other to cover me ...
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Have you ever made butter before?Isn’t it COOL to see the butter form out of the cream!? I LOVE how with just one little gift from a cow (or goat or whatever) you can make SO MANY great yummy things! P.S. Even if you don’t have fresh cream…go buy some heavy whipping cream...