Milking the Rooster

One of the major winter undertakings is the construction of a hot compost, a job involving some nuance, as layering of materials is necessary to ensure a good decomposition and that the appropriate ratios (C:N:P) are maintained to get a good even pH. In the photo below I am upto the manure layer. I am also using wood chips from spent goat fodder and green weeds from the garden, this is the time for weeding as so little is active and it meens that gradually I can prepare all of the garden beds for planting in spring.

Thats right the goats have grown a little fella, yeah and he’s really cute… of course. Rescued, well bought from a familywho get the excess bucks from a goat dairy before their physical characteristics actually grow to fulfill those of a fledged male goat.

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Left: Tan

Mother of Bet. She is nomally every friendly, but sometimes naughty and try to eat Bet’s food. She is always hungry.

Right: Bet

Tan’s daughter. Usually, she is a chicken, quieter than Tan.

Although she is always grabbed her food for Tan, she sticks to her all the time.

They produce beautiful milk for us everyday.

They are always together:-)

It is I sebastiano, making the first of what is hopefully to be many posts for the site of Rooster fetishism (read extreme permaculture). I guess I’m the more practical of the bunch, or perhaps sociable, or perhaps it’s just that the idea of sitting in front of screens for any longer than i have to doesn’t really appeal to me but hey here I am. Fresh from an epiphany concerning my detatched abode here on the Meliodora block. Read the rest of this entry »