My first Steem post, I hope I get it right!
Hello!
My name is Nichole, and I am a stay-at-home mother of 3.
We have a couple of acres and like to raise animals and plants for a healthy, sustainable food source.
I particularly love our Nigerian Dwarf goats, which are a miniature dairy goat. We raise these as a source of fresh, raw milk, and let me tell you, it is pretty much the BEST milk ever!
Not to mention, they are super fun, colorful, and intelligent animals. My kids love playing with the 'kids'!
We also raise chickens for meat and eggs.
We have an assorment of chickens, mostly dual purpose crosses.
Some other projects we are either doing, or have done in the past include aquaponics, American Guinea hogs, gardening, beekeeping, and some others. Perhaps Ill write some posts about them in the future.
We are also a homeschooling family!
The kids love learning in our home and we all love the flexibility that home educating offers us.
I think this will do for a starter post, and hopefully I can write up some more interesting things soon!
I need to continue familiarizing myself with this website and learn the ins and outs of it all.
Thanks for reading, I hope you enjoyed!
Welcome to steemit. Steemit is a great community. Keep steeming :)
Thanks! I will!
Lovely Goats and photos, Even the healthy snake at the end!
Greetings and welcome to Steemit:
I have a few tips for you......:
find a community. Maybe join the @minnowsupport project and the homesteaders online withing the Discord app.
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Thank you! We love all our pets and livestock and take the best care of them that we are able to. :)
Thank you for your reply! This information is very helpful to me and I will take it to heart!
Welcome to steemit! Very nice writeup. We also homeschool our children and do the whole bees, goats, chickens thing!
Very cool!
Thank you very much! Still learning how this all works, but am looking forward to reading and writing more!
Welcome to Steemit!!!
We had milk goats for only 1 year, 2 years ago. You don't know how depressingly jealous I am that yall are still living the dream. We hope to get back to it in 1 or 2 years....but only time will tell!
If you need any help or anything dont hessitate to ask!!!
Thank you very much!
Haha, I LOVE my goaties and cant imagine having to do with them or the fantastic fresh milk!
Best of luck, and I hope you can get back to it eventually! :D
Welcome to Steemit! Looks like we have a lot in common.
Thanks! Im having fun looking around and learning how all this works!
Looks like we DO have a lot in common! How do you like oberhasli goat milk? Ive only ever tried Nigerian, and it is sweet and creamy. Ive heard milk from other breeds might not be as tasty, but Ive never tried it. :)
We just started raising goats in July. We got the Oberhasli in October. None of them currently produce milk but the previous owners of the Oberhasli said their milk is wonderful. They said it had some of the best cream.
Neat! I LOVE the milk from our Nigerians, but I have always been curious how much easier it might be to have full size goats with full size teats that produce more per goat...
got it right. Nice pics.
Haha, thanks!
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STOPI'm still trying to find out if we can get Nigerian dwarfs in Australia. I hear their milk is less goaty tasting than most goat's milk.
I hope you can find some!
They are pretty fantastic goats, in my opinion. Easier to contain that large goats, and yes, the milk is wonderful! Although, to be honest, I have not had fresh milk from any other breed. But compared to grocery store milk, or raw cow's milk, it tastes slightly sweeter and richer. When people come to my house and try the milk, they are shocked to find the milk does not taste weird or 'goaty' at all, but like extra good milk. :D
Good luck getting some!!
Thank you. I have to admit I'm not looking too hard at the moment, because we aren't really ready for any.
Haha oh well...
Still, doesnt hurt to find your local breeders so you can find babies when you are ready.
done plz upvote me
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