Livestock farming

A homesteader recounts their journey to self-sufficient goat keeping and the ones they chose for their small farm. Includes tips goat breeds

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Saanens—the breed Hooper and his wife, Daryll Breau, raise at Ayers Brook Goat Dairy in Randolph, Vermont—are recognized as the highest-producing goat breed in the world. Originally from Switzerland, with snowy white fur and pink-tinged ears and noses, the average doe can give milk for 150 to 300 days on a single lactation cycle.

Richard Teague provides more insight into sustainable agroecosystems, focussing on cropping using regenerative agricultural principles

As you may recall, this episode was when Mr. Burns discovered he was the "sickest man alive." The doctor was explaining how all of the pathogens in his body were competing so much they all cancelled each other out. This one isn't about pathogens - I just thought this was the funniest representation of microbes that reg