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Entries Tagged as 'goats'

Gimme Shelter

November 19th, 2015 · No Comments · farming

After ordering some specialty metal trim pieces, our friend Luke this week finished work on our new goat shelter and quite the little jewel box it is. Finally, the goats will have plenty of room to bed down out of the winter weather without fighting over space in the tool shed. And they can do […]

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Buddhist Festival with Goat

November 13th, 2015 · No Comments · Ethnic

I was having no luck selling goats to our local clientele so I placed an ad on Craisglist both in Albany and Glens Falls and Bingo! Almost immediately I got a response from an Indian gentleman who said he was looking for goats–specifically, castrated males–to slaughter for the Buddhist celebration of Dewali. The erstwhile new […]

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How Much for This Goat?

November 10th, 2015 · 1 Comment · farming

Friends keep telling us how “easy” it is to sell lamb and goat here in Upstate New York just by word of mouth. So far, we haven’t found that to be the case. The good news: we recently sold half a lamb–a six-month-old ram–to one of our clients who regularly buys eggs and meat chickens […]

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