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Just curious - Which milker did you buy?

I bought The Dansha Farms Milking Machine. I left a positive feedback, using my husband's account and name. It is a vaccuum, not a pump and having experience with breastfeeding myself, I stop the pump after a while, to not have too much of a painful suction, while I massage the top of her mammary glands to bring all that milk down. I might reposition the attachments and put it on again to finish her off. It was really affordable, because the patent is pending. I think I paid about $80, including the S&H.
Apparently 2 people found it helpful, so I hope that means they ordered. I wash her under parts before and after each pumping because I don't need mastitis to start. Maybe there is a place appropriate for me to write a review on the forum. I admit to not having read all the instructions. I hope some of my concerns are on the instructions because no one wants to damage their livestock. I think you can buy a cheaper alternative, so long as you take a few precautions and know something about lactation. I mean, obviously, there is no such thing as a baby or kid that vaccuums the milk out of its mother....they suck, so a pump would be better and a vaccuum wouldn't feel as natural. Therefore you improvise. Or.....just go ahead and pay a few times more money and get the best, if $ isn't a problem. I was willing to give it a try.
Really tired today and DH keeps calling the house. He is worried that the kids need to do more schooling. He somehow can't stand to see me taking a nap. Got to get ready to teach religion to a 4th grade class now anyway. Maybe we have 'night school,' as my 10 year old calls it when she play around all day and studies at night.

I don't live in an area with super cheap land prices, but also not the absolute most expensive. I am in the process of negotiating purchase prices for 2 separate properties, which will border my woodland. Hoping to slowly add to my land. I think it will make DH happy and we can fence it in and graze our goats by daytime, when we want to clean up. I have the property descriptions of all the land in a section, but its really hard to piece together exactly where each lot is located. I might end up owning a big checker board.

if you can buy up what is around you that is a great thing!!

I bought 3/4 acre at a higher price cause I was determined to get it. gave me space on the side of my house property line that was despertately needed to keep away the neighbors encroachment. worth every penny

I did the same thing near my yard, so now I have a super big yard, but I want some woodland, for similar reasons. I figure I can wild harvest a few things.....maybe hunt and have more say so about what all goes on. I don't need the orchard wiped out again like happened in January or February. Figure some cattle panels, goats and it will be clean and all ready for cameras and intimidation. Was thinking I could put a few things that look like booby traps, in plain site, so people would think I'm crazy and just leave me alone.....that kinda thing.

I love that idea! Sometimes it's really good for people to think you're crazy! One time a guy asked me what I'd do if I caught him stealing all my goats and I just told him I'd shoot him. He laughed and said that everybody says that but most people wouldn't really do it. So, I just told him it gets a lot easier after the first time... He didn't joke with me anymore.... (course I've never shot anybody....yet!)

I've shot people-just not w/a gun! Spit balls, pompoms in a slingshot...

When I was pregnant for DD 10, a neighbor called and wanted to talk with DH. I let because we never had problems with him....suddenly DH was yelling and so mad and hung up and told me to call the police because all our lives had just been threatned. He told me the man said he was coming over to kill all of us and then he showed up. I was on the phone with the police when the man showed and DH took out his 22 and shot 3 shots (in the air, aimed at our cypress tree, near the house). Well, the police happened to be next door and she and the neighbor acted like DH had shot at the man, so DH was arrested.
Daddy knew something was up and called and I told him what had happened, so he came over and while they were taking our gun and handcuffing DH, Daddy punched the neighbor, knocking him on his butt, so Daddy also got arrested.
I was able to prove that from where DH was standing and where the man was, that it was mathamatically impossible for him to have hit anywhere near him and where the bullet casings were found establish our story, but we had to go thru all kinds of crap.
It came to our attention later on that the police officer had to stand before the sherriff and explain why she had lied. She told him her chief ordered her to falsify the reports, which he denied, so she was fired.
But the whole neighborhood thinks DH is crazy and no one messes with us. He is a bit highstrung, actually. All the little kids come here to play with my girls and they go home and talk saying, "Miss Rhoda is killing her animals to eat them!!" so they have this idea about me as well.
I recall on that terrible day when one cop was saying if he had been there he'd have shot my husband, which I said he hadn't shot at anyone. He said that DH had just missed, but I said, "My husband could hit a 5Lb rabbit from that distance. As if he'd miss a 150 Lb man. He didn't try to hit him." People rather think the worst anyway and it has served us well. No one messes with us.

And in all this... was the neighbor, who had delivered a death threat and then shown up, apparently to make good on it... ignored?

That's what I was wondering.