Raising Dairy Goats in Your Permaculture Backyard

We keep our dairy goats in our permaculture backyard during the winter to keep an eye on them during the birthing season as well as to build up our soil! We have built 12 inches of new soil on top of our glacial drift rocky soil by concentrating our manure where we are going to use it and layering with a lot of carbon (goat bedding). During the winter this keeps the goats safe and warm and when the manure might start to be a problem sitting we move the goat out to pasture. The babies love our backyard because they can run and play safely and we love having our farm family close to the house rather than out in the barn.
Our goats are Alpines and each give 1.5 gallons a day if we don't have babies on them too. We like to leave babies on our does so that we only milk once a day and if we need to go on vacation the babies can do all the milking for us! Hope you enjoy!

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We are a little Idaho family of four living our dream of self reliance whether traveling the country filming other freedom dreamers or living the dream ourself in a little offgrid cabin we finished ourselves. To introduce ourselves we are Julianne (me), Jon (hubby), Paige (my big girl) and Kaia (the baby). We have had a whirlwind adventure the last few years whether we are homesteading, traveling the country in an rv, or living offgrid in a tiny house.

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