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At the suggestion of my homeopath, I started feeding soaked/fermented grain to Gwen to help her digestive process. Her mixture includes oats, barley, sunflower seeds, cracked corn, alfalfa cubes and rice bran. The horses are eating the same mixture plus beet pulp,
Wally had business to attend to before going to work today, so we needed to get up at 4:30 AM; really only a half hour or so before we normally get up, but it seems to be a lot earlier. His having
Now that I’m getting at least four gallons of milk a day, I need to find other outlets for it. Now that I know how to get the cream off the top of the milk, I am going to try my hand
This morning, I noted that her udder is really starting to improve. The scab that was once over the abscess is starting to slough off. I’ll be glad when it falls off for good because it makes milking that one rear quarter
We are still trying to limit Augie’s access to Gwen’s milk, primarily to keep her udder from further damage. Also, now that we have about six inches of snow on the ground, there isn’t a lot of available grass in the pasture
Wally and I had a lovely day yesterday. I cooked the spare ribs with Sicilian flavors and they came okay, I didn’t like them as much as Wally did. I think I just don’t care much for spare ribs. We stayed inside
Damn! I am going to have to start wearing a face mask while milking Gwen. Recently, we trimmed some of the longer hair off the end of her tail to keep it out of the milk bucket. Not sure if that was
Mica is growing up. I’m starting to work a little bit on the goats; unfortunately the goats are less than cooperative. When I took the photos this morning, it was dark and cloudy so the pictures were not in focus. He looks
I did. The Winter Solstice is normally a magical time of year (at least for me); but couple that with both a full moon and a lunar eclipse. The Winter Solstice is a time to celebrate the return of the sun (hear
I love to cook … I really, really do. Sometimes I use recipes, but more often than not, I use what I remember of a particular recipe and create something of my one. Other times, I take stock of what is in