After last years disasterous chicken farming season I was almost ready to give up. With the bees gone I’m not feeling like a very successful mini-farmer. So as an unsuccessful mini-farmer I’m going to follow my typical impulse and try, try again; I’ve decided to raise 200 chickens this year. I ordered them to arrive in batches of 50 last week. They will be coming every 3-6 weeks over the next 6 months.
1 week old Cornish XRock chicks
We’ve been debating the next addition to our mini farm. When our friend, ‘Goat Girl’, said she needed someone to milk her goat while she was away over Thanksgiving we figured this was a great opportunity to test drive a goat. We could get our own goat experience without any investment.
Tiny is on the right, her daughter, Mira is on the left
Molly: Mike and Goat Girl are good friends so they set it up. Mike would drive into town every morning, milk the mama goat ‘Tiny’ and keep what he had gathered.
Mike: I went over several times before they left town to learn how to milk Tiny. At first I just wasn’t getting it. This post from Fias Co Farms got me headed in the right direction.
Molly: I think we were both getting a little worried. I had figured if you saw a goat in our future I’d go over and learn to milk. I really didn’t want to do it before then. The baby goat ‘Mira’ was pregnant. Goat Girl had mentioned that they newest baby could be ours if we wanted. The pressure was on! » » »
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