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Katheryn Haigler: Posted on Saturday, May 21, 2011 10:32 AM
I was researching information on Goat Grazing and came across an interesting article in the Google Blog. Google's blog, "Mowing with Goats" is an article about how Google hires a goat grazing service to come and
clean out land around their facilities. The first article was
written in 2009. There is also a posting in 2010 where the goats are
invited back , "goats are baaaaaahk" .
So
here is a multi-million dollar company who could afford to have their
pastures mowed on a regular basis, inviting about 200 goats to come
clean up their pastures. |
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Posted on Friday, May 20, 2011 3:08 PM
Webster defines the word sate as to satisfy to the full. The
definition of insatiable is that you are not able to be satisfied or
satiated, you are unappeasable.
My two little babies, JarJar and
Binks are the most loving, beautiful goats in the world. They are
easily satisfied with love and petting. In the area of food however,
these two little demons have an insatiable appetite! When I
picked them up on Monday, Michelle told me not to spoil them.
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Katheryn Haigler: Posted on Friday, May 20, 2011 3:04 PM
I am so excited! I have just been to my first kidding! Seriously! On
Monday I went to Western Nebraska to get a hands on perspective of
Michelle Wendall's Happy Goats Grazing operation. Michelle winters her
goats on her daughter's property and in the spring they have a couple
of months of kidding.
There were mammas and babies of all shapes
and colors scattered across the landscape. Michelle and her daughter
had them separated according to what stage of the process they were
in. |
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Posted on Friday, May 20, 2011 3:01 PM
This last Saturday was a such a beautiful Day! We had house cleaning
scheduled but we had not seen the sun for so long we decided to work
outside!
We were working through our various scrap piles, stacking
and sorting the different projects when we realized how tall the curly
dock was. My son told me that once we had the piles separated he would
get the mower and cut them down. I started to agree and then
remembered our newly acquired goats and how much they loved curly dock
and all the other weeds on the property. |
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Posted on Friday, May 20, 2011 2:58 PM
I have to admit that when the grass starts coming up in the spring, I
love to watch it grow. My farm goes from a brown and grey to a
luscious green. Then the weeds start to grow and I cant keep up with
them even with a good weed-eater. By the end of the summer there are
places where the weeds are six foot high and unsightly.
This year I
have gone green. I now have a new, fuel efficient weed-eater.
Actually, I have four, Oreo, Felicity, Charcoal and UN. |
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Posted on Thursday, May 12, 2011 7:00 PM
Thats it, now I am in trouble with my other animals who have been
doing a great job for several years. All of our focus has been on the
goats who are the new comers to our barnyard!
Before the goats were ever thought of we had (and still have)
chickens. Most people would picture a nice little chicken hutch with a
fully enclosed fence around a group of chickens. Our chickens however,
are free range. Not just that they range inside a pen but that they
range the entire property and sometimes the neighbors. |
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Katheryn Haigler: Posted on Tuesday, May 10, 2011 9:48 AM
My family and I moved to a wonderful fourteen acre property
about five years ago. We had stars in our eyes when we moved the
property and many things we had not thought of! I had been raised on a
small farm and thought that I least had a little bit of knowledge on
what we were going to face.
We have loved being here but after five years I am so tired of the
endless weeds and sappling trees. If it sits still very long it will
be surrounded by weeds or it will have a tree grown through it! |
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