by Rachel Noggle | Feb 28, 2014 | Food
Photo courtesy of FreeDigitalPhotos.net Back in December, I wrote THIS post on my personal blog about how disgusted I was with the practices that go on in the big meat industry. Honestly I felt physically ill after watching just a little bit of the video that I linked...
by Rachel Noggle | Feb 26, 2014 | Goats, Livestock
This week we had to disbud the baby goats. I’ve been dreading this process since, well… I found out that it would be necessary. I asked the previous owners if the babies would be polled, which means born without horns, but they do not carry those genes. So...
by Rachel Noggle | Feb 24, 2014 | Goats, Livestock
Before Polka kidded, and by the way, I finally found the paperwork on her breeding and her due date was, ya know, variable, but what it said was “earliest Jan 9, latest Jan 17. Well, guess what, she didn’t kid till Jan 26!!! That is 9 days overdue!! I...
by Rachel Noggle | Feb 23, 2014 | Food
I’m not going to talk you through all of the mental baby steps that I had to take as I learned more about food and how it effects me personally. Also, I’m not claiming to be a nutritionalist by any means. I’m just a person seeking to live a healthy life for me. I...
by Rachel Noggle | Feb 23, 2014 | Ranch Life
Dancing Hermione! 🙂 Little twinkle toes just can’t keep her hooves on the...