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  • From: Clansgian AT wmconnect.com
  • To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] Goats and Hay
  • Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2006 23:52:01 EDT



> > Marie, probably closer in actual practice to James & Denise than to
> > the goat nuts James disparages

I don't doubt that you are. While the 'pounds' is one clue, the horns are a
clue in the other dicrection. No genuine dedicated hardcore goatatericist
would be caught in the same county as a goat horn.

Goatatericism, as I disparage it, is viewing a subsistence homestead as just
a miniature agribusiness and insisting that it must per force comply with the
principles of industrial agriculture.

Our approach is to forget that agribusiness ever existed and approach
husbandry from a completely different angle. Given a chance, goats know far
more
about raising goats that goat experts do. This type of husbandry works to
provide the most natrual condition for goats and let them find their way and
their
niche rather than working the goats directly. It is similar to how the
organic gardener farms the soil rather than the plants with the latter
following
naturally if given half a chance.




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