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How to Raise Goats In Your Backyard
You’ve decided to get a goat or two and try them for awhile, but don’t know where to start. If you have never owned any livestock before, but want to learn how to raise goats in your backyard, getting started is a simple but big step.
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A Homemade Buttermilk Recipe, Two Ways!
Where can you find a homemade buttermilk recipe to suit your cooking needs? And is making buttermilk difficult?
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How to Pasteurize Milk at Home
Learning how to pasteurize milk at home is just one facet of owning dairy animals. A crucial one.
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A Beginner’s Guide to the Best Goats for Milk
There are many good reasons for raising dairy goats, and this article is the best place to start for more information about the best goats for milk.
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Vegetable Rennet vs. Animal Rennet in Cheese
When making cheese, rennet usually isn’t optional. But, though they do the same thing, animal and vegetable rennet have very different beginnings.
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Chocolate, Goat Cheese, & Wine (Oh My!)
There’s nothing like a little chocolate, goat cheese, and wine to make chilly days more festive and bearable.
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California’s Surfing Goats
Previously in Secret Life of Goats you’ve read about goat yoga, goat caddies, and even grazing goats on a restaurant roof. Now we bring you the secret life of surfing goats.
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How to Make Mozzarella Cheese in Seven Easy Steps
Add to Favorites You can learn how to make mozzarella cheese, start to finish, within thirty minutes. It’s so easy you can do it while crafting the rest of your …
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The Goat Barn: Basic Kidding
While goat owners who have never had a goat give birth may be worried about getting them through the process safely, the reality is that with proper nutrition and care, the process usually goes smoothly — as nature intended.
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How to Make Yogurt From Scratch + Recipes
Yogurt is healthy and delicious. Learning how to make yogurt from scratch is very easy, and requires very little equipment.
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