Pete & Teri’s Next Big Adventure

From Brooklyn to the Mountains




The developing nation of Goatlandia

Peter on August 24, 2009 — Filed under: Pets and livestock,construction,goats,hillbilly engineering

Three months of milking under a tarp suspended by old haybale cords was quite enough; I broke our usual rules and made a milking shed out of mostly new materials. Still needs a door, but when the rains come back in a month or two this will make early mornings much more enjoyable.
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…not that there’s any milk to be had; while the goat house is under construction, all the goats are together in one room at night and the babies are leaving the mamas dry in the morning.

Soon we’ll be back to cheese and yogurt making when we open the South wing of Caprine Towers, thanks to a neighbor who had excess shipping pallets and another one who donated an old metal roof:
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