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MIM6UN) aXAMIMBI2./ i Cm^(r, , (HAA. atBAvmi • •- • m.m v. .'•»•>• S^xopUne^ po^&z. "/afrar^ Yr^rti BaAk QarJ&r Goats produce more milk than cows in feet or higher, and very sturdy (a herd proportion to their body weight. They eat wilt patiently wear down chicken wire over less, are less prone to disease, and easier to a period of months to get at your garden goodies). They can also open almost any handle. In droughts, goals can survive and RECIPES UnregistBred-$5-$30. Get a doe that is gate latch imaginable. They need some yield milk when cows perish. Goats milk Basic home made CHEESE. large, well built, typical of her breed (check concrete or flat rock (about two feet contains more calories, vitamins A & B, Put a pint of milk (or cream) into a breed characteristics in goat manuals), square) to trim their hooves. Keep the pen and more riboflavin than cow's milk. The pot, season with salt and pepper, and stand milking at least 6 pints a day, and pref­ high butter fat content gives It greater clean (prevents worms) and use the manure in a warm place (60-70°F) till it "turns" erably in kid. Fair Price-$15-S20. in your compost. Tethering is also a good energy value, and it is easier to digest and goes sour and thick. This takes over­ method of control. The best method is to Registered-These have guaranteed breed because it is naturally homogonised. It is night, or longer. Strain the curds in muslin string out strong wire running between post! lines, should be good milkers, and are re­ rich in the bone building nninerals, calcium to drain off the whey. Make a pouch with or trees, and have the goat on a short saleable. They are also expensive and since and phosphorous. Goat's milk is used in the muslin, and hang up to drain overnight. tether that moves up and down the wire. carefully bred, they require regular attention. treating digestive complaints, food allergy Tighten the muslin to squeeze the cheese This must be moved regularly to prevent Saanens-$20 as a kid, to $100 a good gastric ulcers, dyspepsia. Insomnia, and between two plates for an hour. Unwrap disease, and should be near a shelter. milker, liver diseases. and serve. Season to taste with more salt Electric fences are also effective (cheap Roggenburg—similar. and pepper, paprika, cayeene, chives, seeds, and portable too). British Alpines-bit dearer. FOOD grains etc. For richer cheese, use cream, or Anglo Nubian-$20-$70 as a kid, $100-$150 The main thing that goats do is eat-all add it to the fully drained cheese, and for an adult milker. day long. They like clover, alfalfa, hay, GENERAL CARE re-press it, twigs, leaves and branches of trees, coarse Bought as a kid (cheap), a goat won't BOOKS grasses, brambles, comfrey, nettles, and produce milk for at least two years. The YOGHURT "Goat Gossip" quarterly magazine. $1.00 thistles. They love your fruit and berry best buy (expensive) is a pregnant doe, Best container is a thermos flask-vary subscription. trees, and your vege. garden. They will A goat will live eight to twelve years. They quantities to suit yoiir container. "Feeds and Feeding for Goats" 50c. actually suip tho trees till ihey die. They are very friendly animals, and it is best to Take V/i pints milk (goat, cow, sheep) must have plenty of fresh water, and salt. plus general queries answered: have a pair for companionship. Does are and enrich with two or three tablespoons of For milking goats, some high quality feed The Secretary, ' clean and odourless, but males have an powdered skim milk, (greatly increases such as a coarse-ground grain mix, lucern, The Northern Goat Club of Victoria, odour, so they should be kept separate vitamin B and protein). Place in a saucepan chaff, and oats should be added. They Stony Creek Road, (except at mating time). Mating season Is and bring to the boil. Let the milk cool to prefer to browse-that is to wander round, Warrandyte, winter, and the does will come on heat blood heat (warm), and add the starter. finding their own food, and don'l like VICTORIA. 3113 every Ihree weeks. Gestation takes 21-22 This is eight ounces of commercial plain eating off Ihe ground. "The Dairy Goat", W.J.B. Murphy. weeks. Boost the pregnant doe's feed vkrith yoghurt. Stir this in, place in thermos, and Despite all this, five milking goats still coarse ground grain. One goat will produce leave it on its side overnight. In the free from: eat less than one cow. POISONOUS lo up to two quarts of milk per day, with morning, remove yoghurt from flask, and The N.S.W, Dept. of Agriculture, goats: oleander, poppies, azealeas, bulbs, one or two milkings. When she is feeding chill. It is then ready to eat. Keep three State Office Block, rhododendrons, yew, elm, fir; lilac and pine 3 kid, there will still be two or three tablespoons for your own starter for the Phillip Street, and privet and acorn in excess. pints left each day. Before milking, clean next lot. It will be curdy, and not like SYDNEY. 2000 Ihe udders very well, and even strain the the commercial stuff. Serve with sugar, "Goat Husbandry" by David Mackenzie ENCLOSURE milk before use. Clean milk will not fresh and dried fruits, nuts and seeds, In (Faber & Faber) Goals should be tree-rarigD, but their "smell". The milking period can last up to salads, soups, on pies etc. eating habits make this impossible. The ten months per year. A milking stall is from; best set-up is a large, strongly-fenced worthwhile-it should restrict movement, Soil and Health Publications, e/iclosure. It should have shade, and must fix the head, and provide feed. A dehorned GOAT BUYING South Warrandyte R.D. have some form of shelter from the wind, goat is easiest on you, and your fences, Wild Goats—small, coloured, generally via Ringwood, rain, and cold. Goats can jump and climb Remember-goats must be milked and fed horned, timid, longish hair-up to $10. VICTORIA. 3134 amazingly well, and fencing must be five at least once a day. Don'l buy as useless for milking. price $11.55 postage to Qld. 75c. milkiAQ It's good for goats to be milked. They index fingers are closed tightly all the Nudging or stroking the udder en­ difficult, but things will get better. like it. Be firm. Remember, everyone time to stop any backflow. Then the other courages the milk to flow. When the milk improves with practice. Before you milk fingers are closed slowly, starting with appears to have slopped flowing strip the You may find your hands and fingers wash and dry the doe's teats. Sit with your the middle finger, then the fourth and teat by running thumb and index finger tired and even sore at first after milking. right side next to the doe's right side- finally the little finger, so the milk is from top to tip of each teat until the very That's because you are working with muscle: shoulder to shoulder. Tie up the goat and forced out. last drop is out. you might not have used before. give her a bucket of feed to keep her Again, be firm-you won't hurt the goat. occupied. Squeeze tightly and continue with the If all the milk isn't taken, the doe's Sour-lasting m*lk indicates a change to There are two separate parts to the lower three fingers until the milk stops milk production will fall off. The first a harmful or less desirable diet or else the milking operation. First, the thumb and flowing. couple of milking sessions may be goat is ill. 5. When firm, cut into cakes. DO NOT USE for six weeks. w-J „\ . c/ /ite. to i^n/r A/Z^OV fih e GENERAL HINTS , iolk -forr^eoto/iri^ i-{,ii pcpac] N Do not use aluminium pots (use oven-proof cSso like to satj a iftecial ii^anki "^o glass or earthen ware). alf •^Ko^e wond&^t/lpeojsle. .from \^oh Add borax for quick suds (2 tablespoons). ofe»* Wemhcdi spcitkli'n^ Sa>tof>kone.stjM' Add fragrant oils-lamon, patchouli, sandal­ wood etc. 11 or 2 tablespoons). Add coconut oil, and/or soft fats (poultry) ^errt/ iinales for a finer soap (6 ozs). Add oil of tar for tar soap shampoo IS oza). Basic Recipe Have vinegar handy to wash any raw caustic Prucu fUc'kecin 1 lb. caustic soda soda off hands. Take vinegar if soda is thve Frtinkin swallowed. Add fragrances etc. to mixture 3 pints cold soft water kennu CocJkrotKJk 6'A lb, animal fat before pouring into mould. JOAAU Sfan^etl 1. Slowly pour caustic soda into cold water Mechanics Soap and stir, heating until the soda has dissolved. Joli^ Allan ^ Sv/icrha/Ji. Allow to cool till lukewarm. Over a moderate heat dissolve 3 lbs. home­ PMI Coulfer made soap in 6 cups water. Add 1 table­ 2. Cut up fat and heat till liquid. Strain if spoon borax, 3 ozs. caster oil. When cooled ^Cth Loef*de^slcoi- necessary. Allow to cool, but must still be to a creamy consistency, work in 5 lbs. of liquid. pumice stone powder end pour into wet Peter &rau 3. Slowly pour warm soda into fat, while mould. n-m'u n ^rattarn C&tqu'ts..

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