<h2 class = 'uawtitle'>Sustainability Using Goats On The Homestead</h2><br />
<div style='font-style:italic;' class='uawbyline'>by Laura Campbell</div><br /><br />
<div class='uawarticle'>Some hardy souls would rather make their own living than work nine to five for someone else and buy what they need. That's the ideology behind the homestead, a small holding that will provide almost everything a family needs. If homesteaders do need to buy something, they sell produce to get the money needed. <a href="http://browsinggreengoats.com/">Sustainability using goats</a> is a good strategy for 'back to the land' folks.<br />
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These long domesticated animals have many good points. They produce delicious and nutritious milk. You can eat them. They are easy to handle, even for the inexperienced, and their pasture and shelter can be modest. They don't require much feed. Two good milkers can give all the milk a family needs.<br />
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Actually you don't even need to provide a pasture for a goat. This animal is a browser rather than a grazer and prefers brush and weeds to grass. You can also keep one on hay, but that's more expensive than letting it eat weeds that are free. Save manpower and let the goat clear out all the weeds and grasses that grow where a mower can't go.<br />
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They will need hay during the winter but not nearly as much as a cow. You need to feed them grain if you want to get a lot of milk. Again, they need a lot less grain than a cow will. Goat's milk doesn't make butter, since it has little cream, but that's about the only drawback to not having a cow. Making cottage cheese and wonderful soft cheeses is easy with goatsmilk.<br />
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Your milk goats can also clear the land for you. A temporary electric fence thrown up around a weedy lot will keep them confined, and they will quickly clear it out, even if there are rocks or down trees that would defeat a mower. You can also tie them out on a picket string. Just be careful that they can get out of the hot sun, since they are prone to heat stroke, and make sure they have water.<br />
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Many people don't milk their goats but use them solely for clearing or use them for meat production. There's not a lot of meat on a goat, but per pound it's economical. Anyway, a small family can find it hard to use up an entire cow, so raising a beef cow may not be practical.<br />
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A goat will have one or two babies every time it's bred. It's not always necessary to breed every year; a good milker will often keep on going for two years or longer after it's had babies. The unpasteurized milk is considered more digestible than that of a cow, and it has medicinal properties, too. Many European cultures have used goatsmilk as a wound dressing and as a nourishing food for invalids.<br />
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Goats can be very affectionate; you can take them for walks like a dog. They can browse along the side of the road or along a wooded path, and you've fed them for free. If you have a goat or two, a few chickens, a vegetable garden, a berry patch, and an orchard, you've got almost everything you need for the good life.<br />
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