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Shampoo

For those of you who make goats milk soap, is it possible to make shampoo?  I am amazed at how great the soap was for our skin over the winter and I was wondering if it would be good for a dry scalp?

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We Made the News!

Deborah suggested I post this over here.

We're getting a small farmstead cheese business going and we got some publicity recently. I was at a goat seminar and got caught off-guard by a reporter who happened to be sitting beside me and started chattin

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Time to move on

Hello All, I started last year at this time with two little registered does with hopes of possibly showing and breeding but things have not worked out and now we might be moving and I am thinking I should find a nice home for my two sweet girls. I li

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antibiotic diarrhea?

Hello all! I' m new to goats and have recently bought two 7 week old kids. My dos started having runny eyes and nose with yellow and light green mucus, so we went to the vet. He gave them both a shot and some oral antibiotics, ammoxicilin I think. We

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Farm cheese

I have made yogurt last year but this year I finally have enough milk for farm cheese as well as ice cream. I added garlic, salt and parsley to my cheese and it tasted great on crackers. However I need some ideas for other additions. Help!

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Post enterotoxemia

So my family and I went on vacation several weeks ago and my mom, who lives on a ranch several hours away, watched them for me. We have done this before and the goats graze happily on pasture that is much better than mine. Several days before I came

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Little Goat Delemma

 I have a question and I'm not sure how to start. So I guess if you can bear with me I'll start at the beginning.

I women I work with got a baby goat, actually her daughter brought it home. They live in a trailer park, so the mother ( a co-worker ) w

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