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Cows don't open gates or climb six foot fences in order to decimate your vegetable patch.

Maybe letting the chickens work (scratch, peck through and poo on)some of the wood chips so they break down more it would help. You could make a pile and put some of their feed or food scraps on the pile and they will go crazy on it.

Goats are great, but I don’t agree with you a out hay and feed quality. To do well goats need better quality fees than most cows.

Who needs a cow when you could find yourself a wife 😂

Take a hike tree huggers. .I like my icecream..

Why are goats surprising? 3 cow/calf pairs per acre is what ranchers figure... for beefies. And please don't encourage people to feed goats poor hay. Dairy goats need dairy hay.

Goat milk if you enjoy the taste of soap

Never put a lid on a container with "warm" goats milk. Don't put the lid on until the milk has cooled and the milk will always taste sweet. Put the lid on warm and it will taste awful. Life time experience behind this. Cool as soon as possible after milking.

Love my goats!! Thanks for this. I have Saanens and get about a gallon and a half from EACH goat daily.

Great tips lol 😂

Ok…answering this before I watch. Is it a cat? You know…”you can milk anything with nipples”.

🇺🇸🙋‍♀️ I love goat's milk! I used to buy it from Trader Joes, but it expensive.

Today on Linus Farm Tips 😅😂

You look and sound like Linus from Linus Tech Tips(LTT) UA-cam channel. Like a spitting image for sure.

Haha love this!

its all about the ecosystem. if u want to change the ecosystem to your needs you will have to invest time and money into it. for your properly i would suggest plants which dont have deep vertical root system. like strawberries, which would love that kind of soil but maybe wouldnt love that it doesnt rain as much. but if you wish to decrease soil erosion and increase water retention a cheap option would be *spent mushroom substrate* it can be woodchips/sawdust/straw/manure. its just a question if you have any mushroom farms around or not.

Imma need some of this

Love the videos

Whoops, for got to mention the Key, Matt.6: 33. It's the requirement to ultimate survival w/h what's coming.

what about sheep?

Goats are a pain in the azz😂 Cute but too much for me.

😂omg

How can anyone drink goat milk ???????

I love goats milk, butter, and cheese. Powdered goats milk (which is very sweet) is a great alternative to powdered sugar for sprinkling on baked goods.

Keep up the good work MR 💪✌️ and i loved seeing your baby 🙂 hope you have a wonderful life 🤞🤗

Love your work MR 💪✌️❤️

How much milk does a goat give? What is the breed of the goat that you recommend, the sweet one?

Boy! You are crazy!

Try the Ruth Stout method and plant in deep deep layers of old hay or straw. Cover your wood chips with the straw. Plant a cover crop in it and then flatten it or chop and drop. Keep building layers untill you have built enough soil to plant in. There is also the lasagna method. Anyway you try it will take some time. It's not a quick fix. I saw a vid not long ago with a woman who had a similar problem. She had a big plot of dead dirt that nothing would grow in. She kept adding layers of cardboard, straw and other mulches but says what helped the most and the fastest was what she called chicken water. Basically the muck from the chicken coop soaked in water and then this water was used to water the layers of mulch regularly untill it all broke down into nice usable soil. I think the vid was presented by the no-till grower channel and it was about one of Jesse's friends. I could be mistaken though, maybe somebody else saw it and could post a link? Anyway good luck!💕

and of course it will be easier to fit a goat on a bus than a cow

I grew up on a farm with cows and chickens. My mom sold some of the milk, butter, and eggs. We gave some to my family. It was rare that we threw milk away. We had 4 cows and one bull on 10 acres. We had one milk cow and others were for breeding. We would buy a young bull every year. Because when he done his duty we would fattening him up for our family freezer. We had to gather hay during the summer for winter feed. That could be as much as 300 bales. Cows are a lot of work but it can be rewarding.

you need to filter your groundwater to prevent bacterial growth in your cows. dig a double pond the first part will be smaller as it will fill with moss and other lickens. this will filter the water and give you a better source for times of drought. use the weeds to compost your wood chips as the heat will kill off the seeds and the end product will be better for your garden use poultry manure instead of cow manure. rabbit, goat or poultry manure is better for getting that micro feed to your plants. goats will eat the weeds and if you use the sawdust to elevate your lower levels you can increase both moisture content and pasture for future garden areas. remember to rotate your crops and animal use. the greenhouse and raised beds are good but you have to compost the sawdust you use in it. combine the dirt from the raised beds, the sawdust and any green waste you have, ie; weeds or garden matter. remembering to stir it every day for sixteen days to get a good composte base for your garden. add manure as you rebuild each bed for planting. yes you can compost in winter just keep track of the moisture content to avoid bacterial growth. try legume plants with a shade plant like corn to increase yeild and add a mushroom variety to reduce bacrerial growth these things love to eat bacteria. you will have a higher pest result from this so a good supply of ladybugs or other pest eaters will be needed. am in my sixties now and most of this information was learned through trial and error not from a book. keep growing and remember the slope can work to your advantage even in a drought.

I would find a suitable space for an in ground garden, remove a foot deep of soil, and then add good to decent soil. Or add on top of the soil. Just have to think about stopping erosion. plant density reduces the size of your garden. I had similar issues with poor soil. I planted my tomatoes density about every 6 inches. Got a good crop this year. Also mabie add the wood chips but allow your animals to spend time in that area in winter when your pasture isn't producing when you have to bring hay in or fed.

I believe that all huckleberry plants are perennials, so you would not need to replant them. Not sure if my comment is being helpful or if you were indicating that you no longer wanted to grow that variety of huckleberry.

Could you do some sort of terracing for your gardening?

Ick, OH, unless you're making Ranch dressing

Have you tried planting some sort of plants at the top of your hill to prevent future erosion? That would probably be where I would start. Wish I could be of more help

The ultimate solution: TAKE A DEEP BREATH

My parents had a hobby farm in retirement. They purchased a dairy cull, planning to rear orphaned calves (from neighbors who were actually doing cows as a business) from the milk. But, cull or not, the problem was TOO MUCH MILK! Orphaned calves came and went, the numbers weren’t too stable. My parents tried and failed to dry her up. They finally had to sell her. They also had a very small herd of Saanen dairy goats (like two), also dairy culls, who gave a d--d large quantity of milk. They drank it (if you keep it raw and IN GLASS, NOT plastic, it does not taste goaty), made cheese and soap, and used the rest, mixed with powdered milk, to rear the orphaned calves. BTW, not all the Mama cows died; some were unmaternal and rejected their calves; some had become ill and were on medication that would harm the calf when passed along in their milk. Bottle-feeding the calves takes very little time-like 3 minutes-and my mother also made oatmeal for them and fed them with a wooden spoon. Goats are a time-consuming project, but much more manageable than a cow! More fun, too-our Saanens were like pets!

Great post for the newbies. Cows also have big ploppy poop...goats have elegant little pellets....cows have surprisingly robust tails, that can whack you upside your head when milking and also tend to get every sticker and burr in the pasture entangled in them. Goats, not so much - short tails, not fluffy. When it comes to kicking the bucket, cows can deal some serious blows. Also, if you are looking for a managable amount of milk from a cow, down forget some of the 500 lb. breeds, and/or milking shorthorns. Actually small angus cows would probably give plenty of milk and be easy to obtain. Cows and goats can continue to nurse their babies, and you can separate them only when you need milk, which makes life a lot easier. Milking once per day, or even once or twice per week makes the work manageable.

It appears to me, not a farmer or homesteader, that goats need far less to sustain them. Currently my wife and I consume a quart to a quart and a half of milk a week. A goat would over produce for us, a cow way more than we could consume.

I once had a T shirt with a goats udder on it...the caption said" If God wanted us to milk cows, we would have 4 hands."

Thank you for sharing this video. We are on a small farm in Andalusia Spain and contemplate where we can get our milk from. Much appreciated

Good but also be careful if its your first time eating them. Start off with a small portion as it can give you belly ache and lots of gas 😂 learnt that the hard way

Thanks!

One milking of a cow should produce approx 4 ltrs of milk which can make 2 large or 4 small soft cheeses

Goat milk is superior

Those artichokes are gassy.

I wouldn't have thought those were sunflowers at all

I think we call that Topinambur in Germany but i don't know