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Roscoe our Golden Lab, has Adopted Our New Lamb who We’ve named Briden

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Dad, Briden, and Roscoe

Sadly, sometimes a Sheep will reject her Lamb. Sometimes it means it will die, sometimes it may survive, but seldom will it be adopted by the family Dog! Roscoe, our Yellow Lab, (I call Him a Golden Lab, because there’s nothing Yellow about Him), plays protector to all our animals He Mothers them all, even our cats curl up with him and even give him chest massages! So, I guess, I shouldn’t be too surprised to see Roscoe step up and Adopt a new born Lamb, who was rejected by it’s Mother! This Video Shows…

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Making Sourdough Bread

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Sourdough Bread

Nothing is quite as nice as a good Sourdough Starter, and making Sourdough Bread! Not only is it a great bread, with wonderful flavours, but has no yeast or sugar added! Not to mention the Health Benefits of Sourdough!

According to a review in Food Science & Nutrition the fermentation process helps make calcium, phosphorus and iron more available to the body.EatingWell.com has a great article, Health Benefits of Sourdough Bread, According to a Dietitian, that tells us of other benefits too!

So, it’s an amazing process, first making a Sourdough Starter, we called ours John! You know, John Dough!

By the way, here’s the Sourdough Bread Recipe from Cultures For Health.

We Made Butter From Whey and Wish We had Way More!

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Goat Milk Butter

Recently we made Cheese from our Goat Milk, and a little Colostrum! Yes, even Colostrum makes great Cheese! When we make Cheese, we start with Milk, or Colostrum, usually Milk, and as we process it the Milk is separated in Curds and Whey! Yes, just like Little Miss Muffet we eat our Curds and Whey! 

Normally when you Make Butter, you use Cream and that is usually made from Cow’s Milk, because it is easier to separate the Cream from The Milk. When You milk a Cow the Cream rises to the top of the milk and you simply skim it off and use it. Goat Milk is naturally Homogenized, meaning the Milk and Cream are naturally combined. To separate Cream from Goat Milk you need to let it sit, and after a few days the cream will slowly rise to the top.

Till recently, when we had a happy accident, or happy discovery, depending on which way you look at it. See, after separating the Curds and Whey, after having used the Curds for making Cheese, we sat the Whey aside to use it as a base for a Chowder. For a few days, and maybe a little longer, we let the whey is in our cold-room. When we were ready to use it, we noticed something, sort of like a white, floating, disc was sitting on top of our Whey! Much to our surprise we had discovered that You can Make Butter from Whey!