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06/01/2011 01:07.18 PM
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Hey sounds like me. I also have a Chihuahua named Little Man. Hes full grown and weighs 2 lb 4 oz. Have 2 horses 1 tennessee walker and 1 fox trotter. A all white boxer. Around 50 chickens I think. They move to fast to count. A small garden in summer. Just sold all my goats. Had them my whole life and decided to get out of them. Too much going on here. Ben down sizing for a while or trying to. Come visit me, Pattys Pampered Pets.
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11/30/2010 04:13.41 AM
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Let me know how the goats go. Our son wants to show a pair, however, we are like you all...we don't have enough time to keep up all the animals right if we keep on adding more.
Merry Christmas....it will be here before you know it.Come visit me, The Homestead.
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11/29/2010 06:39.35 AM
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Making SOAP
Go to teach soap dot com. Also check out links like Miller's Soap. There is a lye calculator at mountain sage and I formulate my recipes at SoapCalc. I can look up the links I use. You can also search on make goat milk's soap to find more useful tips. Bringing the oils and the lye solution down to 90 and then mixing them helps too. But freezing the milk and how and when you add it seems to be key.
Cheers and Happy Thanksgiving! BonnieCome visit me, Imaginary Alpaca Ranch (& Chickens!).
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11/26/2010 07:13.39 AM
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goat milk soap
if you don't know how to make lye soap yet, go check out my post this week. It is a brief overview of the process.
For goats milk soap, there are a couple of extra tips to be worked on. We pour the milk into a quart or gallon ziplock bag and lay it flat in the freezer to freeze. We break it up and weigh out how much is needed for the soap batch, some or all of the water can be milk. Key is adding the lye to it and stirring a lot and doing it very slowly especially if you aren't using any water. If you are using part water, then you can add the lye to that and as the temp comes down to below scalding you can add small pieces of the frozen milk.If it turns yellow, it is scorching and carmelizing the milk and your bars won't be milk white. The second trick is to NOT wrap it up in a blanket. Letting it go into the gel state and keeping that heat in will also cause the whole batch to turn brown, scorching.
If you can find someone currently making it and their is WHITE, then you could go help her make soap for a day and see how she does it so it stays white and doesn't turn dark brown.
Other milk products can be used in soap like: unsalted butter, cream, cow's milk, nonfat dry milk powder, canned goats milk or cows milk.
I can't get mine to NOT SCORCH so I just do oatmeal and honey lye soaps and others without the milk. I love fresh goat milk, just keep the billy goat away from the girls cause it WILL taint the milk. Otherwise it tastes great just like cows milk!
Cheers, Bonnie Van Meter at Imaginary Alpaca RanchCome visit me, Imaginary Alpaca Ranch (& Chickens!).
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11/17/2010 02:59.42 AM
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Welcome, you daylillies look beautiful. Come visit me, The Homestead.
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11/16/2010 10:09.35 AM
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Good Morning!
What are you planning to do with the milk? Just for home? 2 does would be a good way to start. You always want at least 2. They don't do well by themselves. Breed 1, after she freshens breed the 2nd. You'll have extra milk for awhile before you dry the 1st off, but that's perfect for making cheese!Come visit me, Larkshire Farm.
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11/13/2010 06:48.15 AM
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All I can say is WOW! Come visit me, Stump Acres.
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11/08/2010 07:53.56 PM
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Welcome!
Very nice looking drive! What kind of goats are you thinking about getting?Come visit me, Larkshire Farm.
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11/07/2010 07:32.03 AM
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hi
looks like you have anice place thereCome visit me, Selkirk Sheep farm, my goats, DeVore Appaloosas & Dons Dexters.
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11/06/2010 10:47.56 AM
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