Goat Sausage

Reposted from allthingsgoat.com
Friday, April 2, 2010

2 Kg ‘traditional’ goat meat (with fat)
40 grams salt
40 grams sweet pimenton
3 medium sized onions
20 grams fresh rosemary
15 grams coarse ground black pepper
5 grams pimenta
3/4 cup red wine
1/4 cup red wine vinegar

According to quietwatersfarm it’s not hot but is lively.

Drug Withdrawal Times

So when you are milking goats, sometimes there is a need to treat with an antibiotic... Most of the research about these antibiotics has been done on dairy cattle as that is where the majority of $ is spent for research. So this site refers to dairy cattle but can applied to dairy goats as well...

The goat courts...

Apparently in NYC, where I happen to be taking my son tomorrow, there is a place called "Goat Courts." This isn't our usual goat thing. Check out the link to see where the goat held court...

Goats eating Christmas trees

Goats recycle Christmas trees by eating them... read about it here.

Note to self: Research quinoa as a goat food source

Quinoa

Movie with a side of Goat

Lately, (read - since I've owned goats) I've noticed how many movies have goats in them... Today's is "Code Name: The Cleaner." A lovely Toggenburg appears on the show...

Hi-Ho, Hi-Ho, Off to the Barn I Go

Hi-Ho, Hi-Ho, Off to the Barn I Go. This is my parody of the song from Snow White... It means I'm about to begin my day.

So much planned for today. Off to Amish country to buy some more lye. Becky and I are making soap tomorrow. Becky informed me we may be making up to eight 8# batches... Screech!!! What did she just say? That's a lot of soap. That's somewhere between 240 to 400 bars depending on the size of the molds. And let me tell you, we will need every mold we can find with that much soap. But hey we will be prepared for Christmas and the great beyond.

Hope to get the new kids horns disbudded tomorrow. No my little trick-or-treating devils, but the cute litte Nigerian Dwarf babies. They are so sweet! Buttercup has adopted Snickers little doeling. We are thinking of calling her Sneakers because she sneaks drinks from Buttercup as well as her mom Angelica. She a down-right thief! No wonder she is growing like a weed!

Science proves it - goat milk is healthier than cow milk

What I've always suspected now has some proof - goats milk is healthier than cow's according to this study. It has been proven to prevent anemia and bone demineralization.

Two new doelings on the Rocking-M

Kids Corral CR Angelica gave us two beautiful doelings today... Hope to upload pix later this weekend.... Debating whether to keep them.... Hubby says keep them, but he's kind of partial to "Angelica Pickles" as he calls her... I'm kind of fond of her too... She's a dream on the milk stand...

Maybe I'll wait until Buttercup drops her young ones... I truly thought she would kid first... She should go within the week....

And then there is next year's breeding... Noah has to figure out who he's breeding to who.... and get 'er done...

But today's task is donning my knee-high Muck Boots spreading gravel in our sopping wet, muddy barnyard with the hubby before the budding journalist arrives to interview me about my soap.

And then there's tomorrow, off to Carol's farm for the Capering Kids 4-H Goat Club's annual Fall Jamboree... Good times, good food, lots of goats and kids with good friends!

So many different types of milk

It seems there is a different milk for every day of the week nowadays.

The Los Angeles Times goes on to explain the differences here...

I still prefer goat milk from my sweet, little Nigerian Dwarf goats any day of the week.

Rocking M doelings and their new owners make the news

I'm looking forward to seeing Mason and Hattie Luster show their Rocking-M doelings at the Somerset County Fair this Sunday.

Read the wonderful article (from the Daily American) about the Lusters, Nigerian Dwarf Goats and our farm, Rocking M here.

Just letting you know... a Kids Corral goat made our local newspaper

And here is a link to Angelica's breeder Kids Corral http://bit.ly/dGNFe

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Crazy Soapin' Farm Life

I need to make soap... Lots and lots of soap.... I just added a new location.

Everyone asks me, " How do you get it all done?" When do I find time?

Between 11 pm and 3 am.... for soapmaking. Up at 5 am on days that are extremely crazy. In the barn no later than 7 am on workdays to feed and milk the goats.

Off to work - designing web pages, print media, working on social media.

Home. Feed the animals then the kids. Off to 4-H meetings.

Oh, did I mention, if you put a load of clothes in the wash before you go to the barn in the morning and put a load in when you get back in the morning, one will have just enough hot water for a shower before the wash fills completely. And, if you put a load in before you go to bed. A seriously tired mother can get 3 loads of laundry done in a day. Now, I'm not saying it is all folded. That would be a miracle!

Home. Catch up on all the rest. Sleep. Wonderful Sleep

Hello world

Hello!

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Who knew a goat could do this

Trolling the net for goat pix and I came across this .. I know goats have crazy balance, but YIKES!

Wind Farms kill Goats

I am all for sustainable energy.... efficient sustainable energy and the more I learn the more I'm convinced that wind farms are not for Western MD, but rather for places like the coastal shelf where they can be most efficient. That being said, I just came across an article about goats and their demise due to wind farm noise.

The BBC published an interesting article about 400 goats dying due to sleep deprivation caused by the noise of nearby wind turbines. To read more on this... check out this link

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8060969.stm

The Original Slim Jim Recipe

I found this "original" Slim Jim recipe posted at the New York Times. I don't know if it is the real thing yet, but I'm going to pass it along to the butcher. I LOVE SLIM JIMS! I hope I LOVE GOAT SLIM JIMS! I'm thinking of culling one of the Boer does and her baby from last year just so I can make slim jims. Goat meat is really low in cholesterol and healthier than beef. After growing up on a beef farm, it is hard not to like beef.

http://events.nytimes.com/recipes/1884/2001/12/30/The-Original-Slim-Jim/recipe.html

The Original Slim Jim

Adapted from Bruce Aidells

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Ingredients

• 1 lamb intestine casing (4 feet long)
• 2 1/2 pounds top round chuck, cubed
• 1 pound beef fat, cubed
• 3 tablespoons paprika
• 2 teaspoons black pepper
• 2 teaspoons cayenne pepper
• 1/2 teaspoon ground coriander
• 1 teaspoon ground fennel seeds
• 1 teaspoon No. 1 curing salt
• 4 tablespoons kosher salt
• 2 teaspoons sugar
• 1 clove garlic, peeled and smashed
• 1/3 cup lactic-acid starter culture

Preparation

1.

Rinse salt off the sausage casing. Soak in ice water for at least 1 hour.

2.

Combine meat and fat. Run the mixture through a meat grinder into a large bowl, using the finest setting. Add all ingredients, along with one cup of ice water. Knead vigorously until mixture is the consistency of bread dough (about 8 minutes).

3.

Rinse casing one last time. Choose the narrowest gauge tube of your sausage press. Splash the tube with ice water, then pull the casing over it. Transfer the mixture, about two fistfuls at a time, to the sausage press and then pump the meat into the casing, splashing more water on the tubing as needed to stop the casing from tearing.

4.

Preheat an electric smoker to 100 degrees. Hang sausage in the smoker for 22 hours. Temperature should never dip below 90 degrees or go above 110 degrees. After 22 hours, raise the temperature to 150 degrees and cook until the internal temperature reaches 150 to 155 degrees (about 30 minutes).

5.

Remove from smoker and let cool at about 50 degrees in a dry place for 4 hours. Cut sausage into 4-inch lengths.

YIELD

16 servings

• Originally published with FOOD: ADOLPH LEVIS, B. 1911; A Tricky Stick
• By Manny Howard, December 30, 2001

BUSY AS A BEE

Not gathering honey, but crazy busy today

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BUSY AS A BEE

Crazy busy today!

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Missy Russell Martz

Rocking M

Raising Sons, Reg. Haflinger Horses 

& Reg. Nigerian Dwarf & Boer Goats

13509 Old Legislative Road SW

Frostburg, MD 21532

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— Winston Churchill

No hour of life is wasted that is spent in the saddle.  — Winston Churchill

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Random Notes to Self

Copper Sulfate will treat foot rot. Mix copper sulfate with sawdust. Put in throw away cement mixing pans from Lowe's in a place where the goats have to walk through... Info courtesy of Fernie Register.