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[Rob <becida AT comcast.net>]

At  1/4/2013 02:57 PM,Robert Walton wrote:


> Goats, I just keep a few for milk, brush clearing and then sell the
> bucklings at 4 months or eat them. Usually, the price to sell them is good,
> so I do that. Last year I got $90 a head for 3 month old bucklings. I'd
> rather sell than eat at that price. I use the milk and make some cheese for
> the house from the mothers, sell an occasional milker or doeling.
>
> Rob - Va


The best tasting chickens we ever grew (x-rock) were fed in the 
morning, let loose all day and fed the extra goats milk. I think it 
was the milk....



Rob
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