Comments on: The Kid has a Kid…

By: wakay

wakay — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 12:45:53 +0000

i prefer turkey rather than sasso in eating grass but you need to have fence for them not to roam around all over the place. as of now i have 10 heads of turkeys not to include the 15 heads sold last christmas, four heads of sasso and numerous native chicken and their chicks, four heads of goats including boer and white baby goat.

goats are the cleanest animal…..

By: paeng

paeng — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 18:31:38 +0000

Wow!! 6 goats already!…. That’s a lot of good to eat meat if you ask me..yum yum.. You can sell them if you want to.. That’s how you got it in the first place.. :)

By: Marketman

Marketman — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 07:51:54 +0000

paeng, I would love to raise chickens at some point… but first, I need to get rid of some goats, he original 3 are now 6, just a year later!

By: paeng

paeng — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 06:21:04 +0000

If you still happen to have problems with grass in your lot you can try to raise a turkeys.. They would really clean it all up for you.. I’ve read from another post of yours that you had a somewhat a not so great encounter with them turkeys.. You can raise Sasso chicken as well… After all Turkey/Sasso meat would contribute to good eating.. : )

By: missuztee

missuztee — Thu, 15 May 2008 04:07:14 +0000

Maybe sheep would be better for keeping the grass short? Our Kiwi neighbor has a place over in New Zealand and they have a flock of sheep specifically for trimming the grass.

By: Alan Jack

Alan Jack — Wed, 14 May 2008 19:21:03 +0000

The goat comments remind me of when I got a pair of rabbits for my young children in the early 1960’s. One of the rabbits soon became pregnant and to our surprise soon produced 13 babies. After they were weaned, we let them out on our large rear lawn and they spent hours each day happily nibbling down the grass and everything else in sight. Trouble was trying to catch 15 very quick rabbits each time they were out to put them back into their cage. It became exhausting. The large cage had drop through hardware cloth wiring so all the poop dropped through into piles which we picked up, put in compost pile, and mixed into ground. Grew great vegetables. Eventually sold them because at that rate of reproduction I would have soon been drownding in rabbits.

By: kulasa

kulasa — Wed, 14 May 2008 12:06:52 +0000

Goats are so noisy you just want to beat the cr*p out of them. They poop all day long and they smell. You had a nice idea going there but….Anyway way Billy is a cute name.

By: bagito

bagito — Wed, 14 May 2008 05:02:40 +0000

I’m so glad The Kid got to see (read: save) Billy and Billy’s mom and aunt before they became kaldereta ingredients. Yay, the family’s spared, esp. the oh-so-cute-and-adorable Billy. Go, Kid (and kid)!!!

By: APM

APM — Wed, 14 May 2008 04:41:39 +0000

Hi Marketman,

If you’re interested I can send you formulae for goat’s cheese

By: caryn

caryn — Wed, 14 May 2008 03:31:38 +0000

Billy the Kid! Hilarious!