Wednesday, April 20, 2011

All About The Goats




8-Milkers, Well o.k.,
 4-milkers & 4-babies
  
From left to right we have: Vidia, Velma, Tinker Bell, and Daphne (Scooby Doo fans will recognize the derivations.)  Also apparent is their condo and this spring's four little goatettes (as yet unnamed).
(You do not want to be born a male goat as your fate is quite unsettling; you will probably be named "rack of lamb" in somebody's restaurant.)




From where cometh the Chevre?

Justin brings udder wash, grain, 3-jars, and a rope to the condo once or twice a day and the goats follow him right into their condo as if he were the Pied Piper.








 

What the hell ma! 
Don't give it all away!

Justin receives 2-liters to 3-gallons of this pre-cheese liquid everyday depending on what the kids drink before he gets the "ladies" into position.  From the goat's milk he makes Tvaroh (soft farmer's cheese), Gouda, Camembert, Parmesan, Brie, and Mozzarella, which he then sells and barters with in several local villages.
Ralph learned to milk and to trim goat's hooves.

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