All About Silkies, Nigerian Dwarf Goats & More
My first couponing excursion was a true mess. I was so excited to start couponing. I had done DAYS worth of research on all the “hot deals”. I thought I was all ready to jump right in and well, I DID jump right in – head first, without looking. I think we ALL know how those situations end up, right? In all my research I hadn’t looked at any couponing tips for beginners.
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If you are getting ready to bring your first goat home, you definitely need to know what goat supplies you will need!
When we got our first goats, we spent A LOT of time researching exactly what they would need once we got them home. We knew we needed to figure out how to take care of them and also what the most essential goat supplies to have are.
Never having owned goats before it was hard to know exactly how to prepare for bringing Nigerian Dwarf goats (or any type of goat) home. …
Dairy goat breeds will be the best goat breeds for you to look at if you want a lots of yummy milk production from your goats!
Of course, all goats CAN produce milk. But that doesn’t mean that you will get much milk from them or that it will be as delicious as ones bred specifically for milk production. Of course, if you want milk, you will also need to learn all about breeding goats! Since they have to have kids to produce milk.
There are many reasons to get dairy goats, but if you aren’t sure what type of goat to get make sure that dairy goats are right for you.
Dairy goats can be a lot of work — what with all the milking they require! You’ll need all the right milking supplies as well as to learn how to milk a goat….
It will be kidding time here in a few short months and we just can’t wait to see all the adorable bouncy babies! Our first year kidding we were so nervous and were not sure what goat kidding signs to look for.
We knew how to tell we had pregnant goats, so we knew we definitely had babies on the way. We had so many questions about what the goat labor timeline would look like. …
Coccidia in chickens and goats, if left untreated can be very dangerous.
Coccidia otherwise known as cocci or coccidious is an internal parasite that can affect all species. Coccidia can be found in the dirt, fecal matter, pretty much anywhere outside that your animals will definitely be touching.
You would think that with how widespread coccidia can be that it would be a simple thing right? Wrong! Coccidia, although by definition (it is a single cell protoza) is a simple organism how it affects animals is not simple at all….
There are almost as many types of peppers as there are people in the world. Well, maybe that’s an exaggeration, but there certainly are a lot of pepper varieties.
When you are thinking about the different types of peppers, first, you can break them into two general pepper types: hot and sweet. Both hot peppers and sweet peppers can be delicious, it will really depend on what you are using them for as to which general type of pepper you will want to use.
Then, within, each of those general types of peppers you have specific pepper varieties. A quick look online will tell you that there are upwards of 50,000 different pepper varieties!
Peppers are one of the easiest vegetables to grow. Since they are so easy, we usually like to add several types of peppers to our garden each year.
That means we get a LOT of peppers. We usually freeze peppers so that we can use them all year round.
With at least 50,000 types of peppers to choose from, it may seem a little overwhelming when you try to decide which peppers would be best to add to your garden. We always try to add a few sweet peppers and a few hot peppers since they are used in different foods.
Most of the types of peppers that we usually plant are pretty common – that way they can be used in multiple ways and multiple dishes over the year.
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