THRIVING after the FALL

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Goats and sheep

Goats and sheep, the small ruminants a household on sand can keep.

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Fresh goat cheese with honey

In the log 30

  • 21 confirmed
  • 4 amended
  • 1 partly confirmed
  • 4 unresolved
  • 5 marked for safety
  • I6 confirmed Safety Grinder: guard on, never above rated speed, never a cracked wheel, light pressure; safety glasses; cotton or wool, never synthetics; water and sand at hand
  • A1 amended Safety Zoonoses: Germany brucellosis-free 2000, bovine TB-free 1997, worthless without testing; Q fever in the Mark; Listeria from silage and soft cheese kills the unborn; …
  • A10 amended Safety Lidocaine max 8–10 mg/kg cattle, 4–6 mg/kg sheep and goats; cornual block 5–10 ml of 2 % solution, 10 min; the one drug worth keeping with calcium
  • A68 amended Safety Acorns and oak leaves kill sheep (kidney); goats eat them without harm
  • A8 amended Safety Acorns poison cattle and sheep (kidney), pigs and goats tolerant; antidote 10 % hydrated lime in feed; the Broker's answer a fence
  • W40 confirmed Dutch beam 9 ft by 27 in square with iron hoops; wool bags in horsehair mats; hot iron plates; end-grain blocks; two wedges; stamper 150 kg from 1.2 m, about 1,765 J; 40 …
  • G25 confirmed Manure analyses dry weight: poultry 3.03 % N, cattle FYM 0.5 %, sheep 3 %; poultry loses ammonia unless bulked with carbon and releases N in the first 30 days
  • G43 confirmed Heinz Ellenberg, Göttingen, indicator values 1974 (R 1 to 9 for reaction, N for nitrogen); sand acid indicators sheep's sorrel, corn spurrey, heather, silver grass …
  • O29 confirmed Streuobstwiese 8–10 m, Hochstamm trunk 1.8 m, hay/sheep; rarest landscape
  • A23 confirmed 86 % of livestock feed human-inedible; ruminants 2.8 kg human-edible feed per kg meat and 0.6 kg human-edible protein returned per kg eaten; FCR live weight chicken …
  • A55 unresolved Herb list (thyme, oregano, sage, turmeric, ginger, linseed, psyllium, sweet chestnut, tormentil, oak bark, St John's wort, calendula, garlic, comfrey, wormwood) with no …
  • A62 confirmed Cattle at 650 kg compact and destabilise sand; small ruminants preferred on the sand
  • A63 confirmed Thüringer Wald Ziege bred c. 1900 from Thuringian forest goats and Toggenburg; 700 to 900 kg per lactation by breed, c. 580 by 137's own curve; 3.5 to 3.9 per cent fat; …
  • A64 confirmed Bunte Deutsche Edelziege standard 1928; goat milk fat globules half the cow's size, no agglutinin, no cream line; a fifth of fat short-chain
  • A65 confirmed Rauhwolliges Pommersches Landschaf 60 kg, 1.5 lambs, 3 to 5 kg wool, 80 to 120 kg milk at 18 to 20 per cent solids after weaning; Skudde 40 kg, heath sheep of the …
  • A66 confirmed Household of 4 does and 6 ewes: c. 2,800 l milk, 220 to 260 kg dressed meat, 18 to 24 kg wool, 6 to 8 kids and 8 to 10 lambs, c. 1,010 h a year, 4.5 ha (pasture 1.5 to …
  • A67 confirmed Sand pasture 1,800 to 2,800 kg DM/ha unimproved, 3,800 to 4,800 with plantain, chicory, trefoil, burnet; winter feeding 215 days; tree hay a third of a goat's and a …
  • A70 confirmed Thaer to Möglin 1804; Frankenfelde royal sheepfold 1816 with Hardenberg; Koppe on the Eckardstein estates and in the Oderbruch; the Gemeindeschäfer and the Pferchrecht; …
  • A71 confirmed 137's village of 300: 45 to 50 does, 150 to 160 ewes, 45 to 60 ha heath, 40 to 50 ha hay, 15 ha hedge, 2 shepherds, c. 5,800 h; 100 ml goat milk a head a day, c. 10 kg …
  • A72 confirmed Goat milking 70 to 90 strokes a minute, pre-dip thyme and sage, post-dip sour whey with tallow or rosin, canal open 30 min, healthy milk pH 6.4 to 6.7; buck 150 m …
  • A80 partly confirmed Hedersleben 1865: 337 ill, 101 dead from one pig; untreated trichinellosis case fatality 15 to 30 per cent; 148's cow (6 t milk, 490 kg beef on 1.5 ha) is 117's goat …
  • M12 unresolved Columella, De re rustica VII.8: rennet from lamb or kid, fig sap, thistle flowers, safflower seed
  • M16 confirmed Cow on grass and hay 4,000 to 6,000 litres a year; goat 700 to 1,000
  • M17 confirmed 10 litres of cow's milk to 1 kg hard cheese, 6 of ewe's; a cow's year as 200 kg cheese and 100 kg butter; cheese 3,000 to 4,000 kcal/kg and a week's calcium
  • M40 confirmed Goat's cheese: 10 l, 150 ml whey, 90 min, 3 to 4 drops rennet (a scant teaspoon of home-made), 24 h, drain 24 h, 120 g, 2 % salt with beech ash, 10 days at 85 % RH
  • J11 confirmed 117's model: 1.0 ha arable in five 0.2 ha blocks (lupin, cabbage, carrots, potatoes, rye) + 0.5 ha clover grass; 3 goats, 12 hens, 2 pigs
  • J15 confirmed Reconciliation: 1.5 ha of the household's own (goats, pig, hens) feeds four; a cow needs 2.7 ha of Luch that is the village's (Ch 8's 3.2 ha); plus 1.5 ha coppice (Ch 1) …
  • J19 unresolved Household year (own): field 1,500–2,000, kitchen ~1,100 (3 h/day), milking ~300 for three goats (twice daily over two lactations), wood 30–50, tools 156, pig 32, …
  • J30 unresolved Animal water (own): cow in milk 60–100 l/day, more in July; goat 5–10; pig 8–15 by weight; laying hen ~0.3 l; house dairy wash 20–40 l/day; household with goats ~300 …
  • J45 confirmed Honest Broker's findings: 117 half-cited to library PDF 24, diet from fitness blogs, calories from a protein shop, pasture short for its goats at low yield; 131 from …