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"Systemrecovery" wrote:

how in heck do you make cheese

Do a search on cheese making or dairying, there are thousands of
sites.

Regards,
Ranee

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Cindy Fuller wrote:

That's one way to keep the lawn mowed and fertilized. Do you have
enough room at your place for bovines, or would you have to lease
pasture and housing for them? Maybe one of the airplane hangars could
be turned into stalls.;-)

People didn't explore much out here at the cook-in, but we have about
five acres under the runway that is open for us to use, not in the
hangar space, or the taxiway, etc. We'd have to build a barn, and put
in good fencing, but there is plenty of pasture out here. Actually,
Rich has been trying to think of a way of pitching sheep for cutting the
grass for a few years. SFO does that (or did at one point), and it
would cut down on the time he and his assistant had to spend doing
things like that, as well as allowing the runway to stay open while it
is done.

I could see doing having a couple of hens for eggs. Unfortunately, we
have a large number of possums and raccoons in the neighborhood that
would steal eggs, and the random coyote that has killed cats and would
probably dispatch chickens if we didn't house them in a hermetically
sealed compound. If we had ample acreage (fat chance), I'd have goats
for the milk and an occasional Jamaican goat curry or roast cabrito.
I'm tempted to rent goats to take care of the scotch broom and ivy on
the cliff next to our house that threaten to take over the back 40
(square feet) of our yard near the temperamental apricot tree.

We have fencing put in trenches two feet under the ground, chicken
wire all around the pen and netting over the top, as well as a coop with
a floor, rather than on the ground. Rich has been trapping and
poisoning rats for the past two months, and we haven't seen one in over
four weeks. There are coyote, racoons, eagles, hawks, owls, you name
it. We're securing the chicken compound as best we can, and locking
them in the coop at night.

Cindy, former farm girl and animal science major

I should interrogate you.

Regards,
Ranee

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Dan Abel wrote:

It does though. My SIL used to live in Kent, and they only allowed two
horses per acre.

That's a maximum, that makes sense. It sounded like the state
determining how much grazing was allowed per animal.

Regards,
Ranee

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On Mon, 06 Mar 2006 10:22:41 -0800, Ranee Mueller
wrote:

In article .com,
"Systemrecovery" wrote:

how in heck do you make cheese

Do a search on cheese making or dairying, there are thousands of
sites.

Regards,
Ranee

http://biology.clc.uc.edu/Fankhauser/Cheese/Cheese.html

This one looks interesting.
--
Susan N.

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48 percent indignation, and 50 percent envy."
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In article .com,
"Systemrecovery" wrote:

how in heck do you make cheese

Do a search on cheese making or dairying, there are thousands of
sites.

A cheesemaking kit is an easy way to start making cheese.

Mary

In article
,
Cindy Fuller wrote:

Cindy, former farm girl and animal science major

And she still wakes up at 5am, too.

--
Julian Vrieslander

In article ,
Ranee Mueller wrote:

In article
,
Cindy Fuller wrote:

People didn't explore much out here at the cook-in, but we have about
five acres under the runway that is open for us to use, not in the
hangar space, or the taxiway, etc. We'd have to build a barn, and put
in good fencing, but there is plenty of pasture out here. Actually,
Rich has been trying to think of a way of pitching sheep for cutting the
grass for a few years. SFO does that (or did at one point), and it
would cut down on the time he and his assistant had to spend doing
things like that, as well as allowing the runway to stay open while it
is done.

I think Seattle Parks & Recreation has rented goats to take care of some
of the invasive plants on hillsides and the like. They tread more
lightly than humans, plus you don't have to worry as much about worker
injuries with goats. It can be pitched as environmentally friendly
(provided nobody had to truck the sheep or goats up and down the hill
every week).

We have fencing put in trenches two feet under the ground, chicken
wire all around the pen and netting over the top, as well as a coop with
a floor, rather than on the ground. Rich has been trapping and
poisoning rats for the past two months, and we haven't seen one in over
four weeks. There are coyote, racoons, eagles, hawks, owls, you name
it. We're securing the chicken compound as best we can, and locking
them in the coop at night.

My grandfather converted his cow barn into a large chicken coop later on
in his life. Several barn cats kept down the rodent population. They
didn't bother the chickens, probably because they had other sources of
food.


Cindy, former farm girl and animal science major

I should interrogate you.

Only if you need help on how to give a cat a pill or subcutaneous
fluids. I haven't done much with raising poultry since grad school--and
they were male broiler chicks, not laying hens.

Cindy

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C.J. Fuller

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Ranee Mueller wrote:
Do a search on cheese making or dairying, there are thousands of
sites.

:
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i watched a program about making cheese, they put cheese under a
microscope

wow! cheese is alive and busting at the seems with little mites
bite-a-mytes something like that..little suction cups on their feet
neading the cheese

when they poop, it's what gives the cheese it's unique tangy flavor

Ranee Mueller wrote:
Do a search on cheese making or dairying, there are thousands of
sites.

:
--
i watched a program about making cheese, they put cheese under a
microscope

wow! cheese is alive and busting at the seems with little mites
bite-a-mytes something like that..little suction cups on their feet
neading the cheese

when they poop, it's what gives the cheese it's unique tangy flavor

In article
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Julian Vrieslander wrote:

In article
,
Cindy Fuller wrote:

Cindy, former farm girl and animal science major

And she still wakes up at 5am, too.

Sleeping in, is she?

Regards,
Ranee

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