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  • From: "Lynn Wigglesworth" <lynnw1366 AT hotmail.com>
  • To: <homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] Farm Animals was SE PA going to identifiable non-cashsmartcardsfortransportation
  • Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2008 09:39:30 -0500

Sometime , when you have time. Explain to me how when I move to the country, I can have adairy animal that doesn't haver to be milked every day. I'm thinking that I could leave meat animals and a smaller dairy animal with plenty of food and water and leave them alone for a few days at a time, if necessary. But, I thin goats have to be milked every day, just like cows. You don't have to answer this am, but this is something I have thought about and don't know the answer ......bobford

It's easy; you leave the baby on them. You have to figure out a way to keep the baby away for a few hours, so you get the milk. Most people lock the calf in a pen overnight, milk the mother in the morning, then let the calf go. The mother will increase milk production if you do it regularly, but the calf will still suck it all up if you don't lock them up before you milk. I assume it works with goats, too.

I could, in theory, leave the animals to fend for themselves for most of the summer. The cows and sheep have a pond for water, and lots of grass. The chickens find bugs and stuff. That's all they need. That's the theory; in practice, I find that if I leave even to go to the store, some catastrophe or other strikes. It's much better now that I have my new fence; last year, I'd come home to find my bulls standing in the middle of the road, holding up traffic.

Lynn Wigglesworth
Tioga Co. PA




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