Permaculture Goats

[@katieanneozarkhollowhomestead]

I saw your video link on Edible Acres. Looks like you have a great channel, just subscribed!

[@saintisidorehomestead]

Thanks for visiting.

[@kevinwharem6464]

Wonderful overview of your goat operations and some of the solutions and opportunities you've found!! Thanks, Sean, for letting me and others discover this channel for the first time! Looks like I'm subscriber #231. :-)

[@saintisidorehomestead]

Thank you, #231, for stopping by. Great to have you here.

[@edibleacres]

We really hope to have goats some day. Not in the cards just yet, but we really like their energy and the intense but very positive impact they seem to be able to make in a landscape. So much to learn!

[@saintisidorehomestead]

We were a bit apprehensive at first. The stories of things going wrong are intimidating. But one can learn a whole lot just by observing (permaculture principle 1 :)) working with the animals is key. We let them teach us and it has paid off. We did the same thing with pigs this past summer and it was very rewarding and humbling.

[@yLeprechaun]

Nice! I'll be eager to see how the food forest progresses. I miss our goats. We've had goats for 12 years, but sold them all this past fall. We're in the middle of a restructure. But gosh they're fun. And the milk, I love the milk.

[@OutWestHomestead]

I love goats. They really help clearing the land. Hope to see your future food forest.

[@MyQuaintCottage]

Loving your goats. Best of luck with your channel and your operation. 🙂

[@sallysmith7675]

I am glad you linked into Edible Acres as I have enjoyed your comments about how beneficial they are.

[@kitdriscoll1288]

Nice and informative video. Are you still producing videos?

[@justpde]

Need more posts from you. I love your lifestyle !!

[@saintisidorehomestead]

Thanks for the compliment. We are working on that. Blessings

[@vilieatthefarm1703]

Great video mate, the awesome concept of trusting your goats.

[@saintisidorehomestead]

Thanks 👍

[@fatcatmarketgarden5214]

Clicked on your link at Edible Acres and subscribed after watching your video. Looking at your videos you have a lot going on.

[@saintisidorehomestead]

Thanks for checking in.

[@OutWestHomestead]

Come by to say Happy New Year to y'all. 💖

[@saintisidorehomestead]

Lovely. Thank you very much, Sue and Bill. And best wishes for a wonderful 2019. Blessings.

[@OutWestHomestead]

Best wishes to you and your family for 2019.💖.💖

[@ItsMe-jh3ze]

New sub here! I have chickens now and hope to get goats some day soon.

[@saintisidorehomestead]

Sweet. Thank you, Lori, and welcome.

[@feltingme]

Thank you, very informative video. I think wood ashes might have been as a charcoal. We like to take activated charcoal from diarrhea or any acute digestive problem such as stomach flu, and it always helps, and helps very quickly. I think you could observe your goats and learn medicinal herbs from them.

[@saintisidorehomestead]

Isn't that fascinating? They seem to know intuitively what is good and what is not. Thanks for visiting.

[@cheriemartin3767]

Gold fertilizer :)

[@saintisidorehomestead]

That is what we call it. :)

[@waryr11711]

I subbed from edible acres link :) (need to post at least 1ce a week for me to stay subbed!) Great teaching video but disagree w/ parasite control... your way is great as preventative but if their parasite load gets big enough to weaken them i'd use chem treatment. I don't know about others but if i had a goat that needed meds i used to confine them to 1 stall i called a "medical stall" then put all that bedding when done w/ meds into garbage cans and haul it too the dump. Reason for that is more to do w/ when you worm an animal some worms always survive the treatment and if left on the farm create super worms that are resistant to medical treatment. Try to breed for the most parasite resistant goats culling/ or selling goats that need worming alot. Eventually you'll get parasite resistant goats that will never need wormed! But because of people breeding for everything except parasite resistance almost all goats we have now are weakened and need occasional chemical worming.

[@saintisidorehomestead]

Breeding for parasite resistance is great advice, Michelle. I entirely agree with you. We've been very fortunate not to have serious parasite issues since we brought the goats in two years ago. We've also been breeding chickens for homesteading purposes using the same logic (i.e. breeding for broodiness, decent egg production, tameness). It works. In five years we now have a very reliable generation of Black Australorps that are given us plenty of eggs, meat, and more chickens without us having to utilize heat lamps, incubators, or brooders. Thanks for visiting.

[@waryr11711]

Awesomeness! I'm glad your breeding for broodiness too so many try to breed out broodiness and that is sad for me. I treated my broody mamas like queens telling them that they are good mommas ect :) I've never used an incubator my daughter did 1ce for school project w/ duck eggs but none survived :'(