Posted on 05/01/2026 6:24:57 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin
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My niece has goats. Knowing what I know (which isn’t much) I don’t see them being very amenable to a collar/wireless fence setup.
I meant ‘steers’ as in, ‘all of the steers that have been through here.’
‘Stew’ is back from ‘The Spa’ and he’s in the freezer. We’ll get the next one this coming October.
Didn’t you suggest, ‘Sir Loin?’ That would be perfect. :)
Oh, geez...
Wifey just informed me she needs holes punched in milk jug caps, 4 each for each of her students.
...By tomorrow @ ~6:40 a.m. when she leaves for the school. The kids will make little “cars” as a project, and these are the wheels.
I found the right size punch (awl) in my shop - now, how to center the holes / find something to use as a jig...
OK. Beau has been farming since birth. I gotta tell ya, he got a good chuckle out of that suggestion. ;)
HOWEVER - if you had a few goats, or the few Angora Goats that I want, I could actually see that working! :)
He’s thinking more along the lines of having a bunch of goats that he ‘rents out’ to clear areas. But, he’s 65. I don’t think it’s gonna happen. He’s pretty busy as it is, logging and fencing and rustlin’ cattle for the neighbor, burning prairies off for the ‘Prairie Enthusiasts’ group, hunting, fishing, training hunting dogs, being on the Land Use Committee and the County Conservation Board, and repairing any and all farm machinery on a DAILY basis!
That guy needs MORE ‘hobbies’ like he needs a hole in the head!
She had a good short on sweet potatoes too. I stumbled on it when I was looking at something else on Youtube and the shorts came up, but they do not apparently copy.
I can only think this is useful if you are making a big batch of avocado guacamole. (Not something I normally do, but others might!)
Hot glue gun tip, sans glue, will make nice holes for you in those lids! :)
I know. A ‘Hot Glue Gun’ is my answer to just about anything!
Bird of Paradise....if it were a bird I could imagine it calling “Bali-bali-HiHiHiHi!
When we moved inland away from Lake Michigan, we were within a mile of a Hog operation and I could always tell when the wind was from the Southwest! Maybe one of those shorty homesteader pigs that don’t do a lot of rooting, just don’t make it into a pet!
(Someone said a 2nd steer? Not a bad idea to have more beef to sell next spring!)
Diane’s Yummy Instant Garlic Bread: Day-old French Bread slices, buttered, sprinkled w/ Parm, Gar/Salt, Italian Herbs. Freezer an hour or so. Hold in bag in freezer. Bake when needed.
That’s a recipe we all need.
Very practical lady.
Collars are fine if you want to manage them, be able to lead them for hoof trimming, shots, whatever. Ours were for showing at the local fair and state fair. Its leashes that are bad, tying goats out so they can eat. Their throats are very delicate and they are prone to choking. Plus they are so active and can get into trouble.
Yes I really like that name.
I like to do any garlic bread toasted in a skillet with olive oil and butter. Of course I never needed to do a whole loaf.
Huge kudos who do the renting out of goats for clearing brush. They are mostly shrub eaters and like/need the bark too. That is a job for the young people. I’ve read of cases where municipalities will hire them to clear out hills along highway ramps, etc, hard places. If the goats are well trained to follow you, you don’t even need to put up fencing. But you would need a bunch of goats to clear it quickly.
The “Yummy” recipe was meant for larger quantities of day-old bread to do-ahead
and hold in freezer for later baking————not for smaller mealtime portions.
Your way is a good way to do the latter.
Yes it is a good method.
My niece has collars on most of her goats so she can grab them for milking, or to help her move them around although she really doesn’t need them. The goats love her & follow her like the Pied Piper :-) She bought a Nubian buck last year & it was a two-fer with a Nubian doe. After ‘the boys’ (she had a Dwarf Nigerian buck too) had done their duty, they were off to the livestock sale & the doe went as well. My niece would be leading the herd to a new field & this doe would get half way there, then run to the barn repeatedly & caused all sorts of havoc. She also was not friendly so off she went.
Right, IIRC, I posted to that effect some time back. I think it was about creating holes in the bottom of plastic containers to turn them into pots with drainage for plants. I’ve used a spare soldering iron too - although those if not variable temperature run too hot, and you get a bunch of fumes. That’s ok outdoors with a breeze to carry the fumes away from oneself, but last night we had breeze AND a cold rain!
The bigger problem is centering the holes, and the only thing I could quickly come up with as a jig was made of easily melted plastic too!
So, I finally figured out where I left my medium awl: It’s SUPPOSED to be out in my shop, right at the workbench, but I frequently end up using it in the house, and every once in a while it ends up not making it back to the shop. The awl worked ok. I should make a better jig, tho’. :-)
That is always nice to hear that people are taking good care of their goats. They are very smart. Besides our long career with daiy goats I was goat superintendent at outr county fair for 5 years. WE would average about 70+ goats in the barn for a week. Also had a vet check line before they moved in. Many people gave horrible care or no care at all. I had to turn away some over the years, thankfully not too many. Fleas, lice, pink eye, not shaved for showing. Generally in poor condition. And not up on shots.
My niece is an RN. She does the blood draws on the goats so they get real “nursing” care. Her husband holds them - they pretty much stand there because they know my niece & her hubby plus she’s really quick. My great-nieces, 7 & 10, help out a lot & play with the baby goats so they get tame really fast. The 7 yo took on bottle feeding (during the day) the little goat whose mom rejected her. You should see those two running & playing together- so cute! Those are some lucky goats!
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