November 30 2016
All the goats due have
now kidded. Erin and Ester were
the last. Sadly Erin kidded in the
night and a huge buck kid was born dead leaving Erin sore and miserable. Next day her sister, Ester, went
into labour but this time both Erin and I were on hand to help out and she
delivered two healthy doe kids.
Erin helped clean off the kids and began sharing child rearing duties
with her sister. Soon her grief over her dead kid was forgotten and she is
taking her duties co-parenting very seriously.
We have now got 14
kids in the shed. I plan to rear
the 7 females and possibly one male but the other males will have to be
sold. The big goats are now
producing prodigious amounts of milk and I am making cheese everyday as well as
feeding the kids. I am still not
happy with the hard cheese we make.
I keep on trying to make a basic hard cheese that we can use for
everything but I have not got a consistent way of getting a good result. I am almost at the stage of giving up.
Making feta and cream
cheese is now so routine it is easy but it would be nice to have a good hard
cheese as well. They come out at
about a kilo and a half in weight so really we need under 18 a year. If I could get it right this would only
be 18 days work which would be very do-able.
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