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Thanks. We're still working our way through knowing next winter will be better than this one ... our first winter on the new farm.

Prepared for an emergency? We seem to deal with them on a regular basis. We wanted to go "off grid" when we moved down here and we're doing so ... with the loss of one system after another.

Well, like I mentioned, we've got a lot, including the "shag bark" hickory which has large oblong nuts that are actually quite tasty. If we can find a reasonable way to harvest and crack, I believe it will work out nicely for us.

We have lots of hickory trees on our land and find ourselves walking on a carpet of hickory nuts in various spots. The adult pigs seem to like them, but the shells are too hard for the younger piggies or any of the other animals. Just curious to see if anyone uses them as a supplemental food...

So you've met them, eh? ;) My wife is the horse person in our family, but I've come to believe that they are less mischievous when they've been working.

Milking our Saanen in the foyer of our former cabin. Much warmer in the foyer in Minnesota.

Our first litter of American Guinea Hogs at about two weeks of age. Heritage breed that forages for most of their own food.

Our two "beasties". The Halflingers that do the heavy work on our little farm.

Thanks. We've done the semi-weaning thing where we milk once a day and allow the babies to nurse for the "other milking", but we've not just switched off to once a day yet. We've got a doe that is particularly unpleasant to milk, which has spawned this delima.

We have a couple of goats we milk and my girlfriend has heard some people milk just once a day vs. our twice a day routine. Does anyone have experience with this, comments, or recommendations? Is it hard on the goats? Will milk production drop? Botar