{"id":2750,"date":"2015-07-02T00:52:02","date_gmt":"2015-07-02T00:52:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=2750"},"modified":"2015-07-02T00:52:02","modified_gmt":"2015-07-02T00:52:02","slug":"94-own-goats-and-milk-them-for-what-they-are-worth","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/121-life-goals\/94-own-goats-and-milk-them-for-what-they-are-worth\/","title":{"rendered":"94. Own Goats and Milk Them for What They are Worth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Completed January 11, 2008 @ Tactic, Guatemala<\/p>\n<div class=\"paragraph paragraph_style\"><a href=\"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/CUPS-OF-MILK-EACH-DAY-.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-2751 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/CUPS-OF-MILK-EACH-DAY--171x1024.png\" alt=\"CUPS OF MILK EACH DAY\" width=\"171\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/CUPS-OF-MILK-EACH-DAY--171x1024.png 171w, https:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/CUPS-OF-MILK-EACH-DAY--50x300.png 50w, https:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/CUPS-OF-MILK-EACH-DAY-.png 381w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 171px) 100vw, 171px\" \/><\/a>I grew up with goats on a homestead in New Brunswick. I remember riding a ferry to P.E.I. as a child and when given cow&#8217;s milk in a carton complaining to my parents that it didn&#8217;t taste good.<\/div>\n<p><a title=\"100_6079.JPG by zaakistan, on Flickr\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/48889088609@N01\/18330046063\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/c1.staticflickr.com\/1\/525\/18330046063_bc2c9eca66_n.jpg\" alt=\"100_6079.JPG\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"paragraph paragraph_style\">On August 4, 2007, with my neighbour, Ren\u00e9, I purchased 4 goats &#8211; 1 pregnant, 1 milking, 2 kids. We bought the lot for Q1000 (CAD$140). The 2 kids died a few weeks later, but we were able to milk their mother, Ermentrude. On November 13 Cappuccino Surprise gave birth to Moccaccino and we started milking a second goat.<\/div>\n<div class=\"paragraph paragraph_style\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/094_Goats_files\/stroke_6.png\" alt=\"\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/094_Goats_files\/stroke_7.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"paragraph paragraph_style\">A fair bit of work has gone into keeping the goats: deworming, building a shelter and milking stand, buying corn and feed for the goats, putting them out to pasture in the morning and putting them back in at night. The rewards have been various and I discuss the value of milking goats in a full length\u00a0documentary entitled <a href=\"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=2224\">For What it&#8217;s Worth, Milk a Goat<\/a>.<\/div>\n<p class=\"paragraph_style\">Below are photos and a chart of how I was able to milk my goats for what they were worth.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"100_6142.JPG by zaakistan, on Flickr\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/48889088609@N01\/18328165434\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/c1.staticflickr.com\/1\/383\/18328165434_3e47d19d97_z.jpg\" alt=\"100_6142.JPG\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a title=\"100_6984.JPG by zaakistan, on Flickr\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/48889088609@N01\/18953807921\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/c1.staticflickr.com\/1\/434\/18953807921_925c2fddf0_z.jpg\" alt=\"100_6984.JPG\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a title=\"100_7052.JPG by zaakistan, on Flickr\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/48889088609@N01\/18330255593\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/c2.staticflickr.com\/4\/3927\/18330255593_40dd38f236_z.jpg\" alt=\"100_7052.JPG\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a title=\"Justin's Photos a Selection - 47 by zaakistan, on Flickr\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/48889088609@N01\/18693445328\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/c2.staticflickr.com\/6\/5444\/18693445328_543a4a4e95_z.jpg\" alt=\"Justin's Photos a Selection - 47\" width=\"428\" height=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Completed January 11, 2008 @ Tactic, Guatemala I grew up with goats on a homestead in New Brunswick. I remember riding a ferry to P.E.I. as a child and when given cow&#8217;s milk in a carton complaining to my parents that it didn&#8217;t taste good. On August 4, 2007, with my neighbour, Ren\u00e9, I purchased &#8230; <span class=\"more\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/121-life-goals\/94-own-goats-and-milk-them-for-what-they-are-worth\/\">[Read more&#8230;]<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":2235,"menu_order":94,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["entry","page","publish","author-admin","post-2750"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2750"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2750\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}