Marbleflys: I hope you get better quickly! I am sorry to hear you got hurt.
Jasmine
So glad to see you getting back on track, that is the mentality we all need. Fall off then jump right back on before it gets worse.
Ok if your mean to your goat I am sure it would butt you in the rear end LOL But if you feed your goats and socialize with them everyday, they are like dogs. Seriously, if you let them they will follow you in the house, out to the garbage and everywhere. I think males can be more tempermental but we only have females LOL They are very sweet
and are even patient with me when I milk them....which takes a very long time since I am new! They butt each other for fun and ours were both disbudded so they do not have horns (I might worry about one with horns LOL) The little on actually started growing horns anyway but they are small. We did get a puppy last year and our big goat did NOT like her. She was very protective of the little one even though she wasnt her mother. And she would knock that dog over and keep butting her. The puppy learned quick to stay away, and now that the puppy is a big dog she makes sure to go in a big circle around that goat. LOL My chickens are meaner than my goats, seriously, they squawk at me if I come in and they are trying to sit on eggs, enough to make me turn around and say forget that!
There are a lot of misconceptions about goats, like that they will eat metal and things like that. They do taste alot of things but generally they wont eat anything other than weeds, trees and hay, ok they do like the garden, and veggie scraps too. But they use there mouths to investigate things. Like they will nibble clothing that hangs down, generally they wont actually take a bite though LOL
The things I like about goats vs. cows is: 1. If a goat steps on my foot I say "ouch", if a cow steps on my foot I would say "take me to the hospital!". 2. Goats feces are tiny pellets that don't stink (think big rabbit poop) and cow poop is horrid. Again they are smaller so they also do not produce as much AND you do not need to compost goat poop, it can go right into the garden as is just like rabbit poop with no worries of bacteria! Cow poop MUST be composted!
But I have to warn you, it is a FULL time job when they are in milk. The one reason I would consider just buying milk is because you can not go on vacation with all these animals! When they are not in milk you can pay someone to come and feed them but when they are in milk you have to pay someone to feed and milk them, which is harder to find, I am on the look out for someone who can milk them, feed them and will accept the milk as payment so we can all go on vacation together, but until then we have to do it in turns. But who knows maybe it will work out better, I wont ever have to see my MIL again.
I am SOOOO JEALOUS!! When ever I make large quantities of whole wheat they come out like bricks. There is only one recipe that works for me and it only makes one loaf. This one looks pretty similar as far as the ingredients so I am going to have to try it, the one I use is a vegan recipe that stuck with me since it worked LOL change the butter to oil and its nearly the same! I will have to blame you if I end up eating a half a loaf myself though. Homemade bread is like DRUGS! I am drooling just thinking of the smell!
So what do you use the meatballs for? Plain, Sandwiches, Spaghetti, thats all I can think of? I made some killer pot stickers but only like 20 made it to the freezer, I had to do a test run of course and the family LOVED them and they were super easy, all be it time consuming and frustrating to seal and assemble. I want to do more like that, not unnecessarily OAMC but just keep healthy homemade convenience foods around. That way if I am running behind or having a low energy day I can just pull it out and cook it up super easy
I so need a deep freeze!!!
Well today I am just kind of hanging out dreading yet another doctors appointment tomorrow. BLECK! But other than that the calories are looking good, the caramel is finally gone, which is a relief since it was putting me over on my calories.
Have a great one! --Sumi