that Coming In to My Own.
Work Away and the gifts from their Ethiopia trip were there….
this woven shawl made by the Wood Gatherers Weaving Coop. Women who had in the past gathered fire wood all around to sell for a "living", had somehow managed to form a Weaving Co op instead. It's beautiful, synthetic fibers, but beautiful nonetheless.
this clay Guinea Hen….even MORE BeautyFULL to me.
a long conversation with Granddaughter about Vaginas and Goats. Here, maybe more about Goats than might be hoped, but in keeping with Coming Into My Own, an exchange that helped me get to a New and maybe Possible place with this Goat keeping????
the dog trainer, hardnosed Jan is adamant about NOT opening herds to the most vague possibility of disease. And though i have always known things at some level, i am now looking closely. If you expose your Goats to one of the diseases that are common enough, they are not fit to provide milk or cheese on any public level. They are not suitable to sell or breed with others. It happens quietly and to an entire herd. It is passed on to any future kids.
So, here's the dilemma….i had said, without a lot of thought, to Kelly, who took the two does with problem scurs, that she could use a buck from here when she was ready. That means the buck going there, as TenZen did to Jan's or the does coming back Here and me setting up a place to keep them till they got bred. Either way, this zeros out the Closed Herd factor. Meaning nothing in/Nothing Out. Jan tests all her animals as needed. Because she sells the lambs as meat and because she sells Goat Shares for milk. She is meticulous. And what she sells is CLEAN and Organic and Pure. And she can guarantee that. So i think.
She also has told me that before she asked me to test TenZen,…a significant expense…she called Everywhere trying to find a Tested Buck. No Dice.
SO. trying to keep this as short as possible, i am thinking aloud to granddaughter today…What IF?
What IF i could advertise, like on Craigs List, a Closed Herd of Purebred Nigerians…What if i could further be able to say that they were fully tested? WOULD that come to be a possibility toward maybe breeding a couple of these does here and being able to make CHEESE but also be able to have their kids Desirable to other milking herds…the kids?????
MAYBE. a very BIG maybe. THIS is very uhhh, very well, very Possible. Thinking.
and i forgot…so am adding this…Because i had said that to Kelly, i feel responsible for keeping my word. If I don't want to let any of these bucks take that chance, then what? So i am in a HUNT for a Nigerian buckling. This is the time of kidding. I am trying to find a buckling for her. I'll buy it and give it to them. Keeping your word is critical.
I made a VAT of macaroni and cheese to put into containers for the Old Cowboy's freezer. He will be happy as a clam tomorrow.
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