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Also with goats (and cows), to some extent, what they eat will affect the taste of the milk. Most cows are on a pretty regulated diet so you don't have the weeds etc affecting the taste. I really do not notice that much of a difference between goat milk from a controlled herd with a set...

What is the cost of good hay in NH? You are looking at about $80 a month at $1000 a year ... with one cow you will probably have to go with small square bales (unless you can handle large squares or rounds, they are usually less per ton) if hay is $5 for a 60# bale that is 16 bales / 42 days...

Keeping a cow/calf pair on half an acre is not a problem, it is plenty of physical space and exercise room for it ... keeping the pasture in decent shape is going to be the problem...you would be amazed on how fast one cow can take down the grass in half an acre, like days. You might want to...

I second considering the milk goat idea. The goats seem to be popular on the "micro" farms around here. A friend of mine raised dairy goats for years, they were much easier to handle/milk than the cows are (120 pound animal vs 1000+ pound animal), and they are a heck of a lot of fun. We have...