I wish my boys loved it like I do. One is a computer geek and the other is an avid outdoorsman and hunter. He is the one who fills in when needed though.
It is a great hobby for me, I have dairy goats and I make soap and cheese. I do it mostly to give away, but could earn some money if I wanted to. It’s just a hobby farm. The hardest for me has been deliveries. I am plagued with every one of my does having major problems, but I haven’t lost one yet, thankfully.
Sorry to get the thread off topic!
I don’t think there IS a topic for our thread, is there?
Maybe the outdoorsman/hunter will grow more interested with time. My son is a fanatic about hunting, and to a lesser degree my daughter and son-in-law and the kids. They all go hunting geese, ducks, doves (ew), & turkeys together. The kids look funny in their camo with their small rifles lol.
Soap and cheese? My daughter would LOVE to spend a day with you! She’s a real homesteader - she was going to attempt cheese making awhile back. I don’t know what happened to that....I’ll have to ask her lol. Like she doesn’t have enough to do with the 3 kids home-schooled. A couple of years ago they raised 150 meat birds for the freezer. They pitched a tent to kill and clean the birds. Gross. The kids didn’t seem to mind it - it was a little much for me. No thanks. I’ll get my chicken cleaned and ready to cook from the store lol.
Matt loses a lamb now and again. I guess you get used to it. He’s got about 500 ewes that give birth twice a year, so I guess you have to be prepared to lose one now and then. They’re nice animals. I like sheep.
I hope your boys take more of an interest. I don’t know how old they are.....can you limit the computer stuff?
“, I have dairy goats and I make soap and cheese”
I wanted to do that when we moved here. That and chickens. I practice making cheese out of store-bought milk, since I couldn’t find any that wasn’t pasteurized in California. I bought a little wine cooler to use as my cave. It was fun, even though I really didn’t know what I was doing. The parmesan turned out fairly well. It was kind of fun constantly monitoring the humidity and temperature and flipping the cheese over. Like a pet.
Do you cook with or consume any of the goat’s milk?
My dad had about 6 to 8 goats. We sold the milk, and ate some males. I did not like goat milk but I love the cheese. There’s a woman in the next town over that makes the best goat cheese, so many different types.