Absolutely. But even though my dad was a contractor.. I can't manage a hammer and nails. I still bend 80%of them -_- *sight* A screw driver is my best friend lol
Yes I get the single income thing. My husband retires soon from the service and is nervous abut finding a job. We will see. If we had a well that would help. City water tends to make gardening pricey, but I have been working with our difficult yard to produce better. And I may do goats for milk, if I can talk him into trying the milk. Feta is easy enough to make. I still want my Jersey cow though. Now that is good milk
The reasons we decided on goats were;
1) They're smaller, you can literally keep a whole herd of nubian goats one the same plot you could keep one dairy cow on.
2) They're cheaper, they eat less and what they do eat is the "low quality" stubble hay and underbrush that cows won't eat and costs alot less.
3) Healthier milk, fat solubles in goats milk are actually so small the milk doesn't separate. Which means you get full nutrients from the milk.
4) Easy to work with the milk, heat it up, a few drops on vinegar, boom you have taken the first step in cheese making.
5) Personality, goats are like people. In fact you keep em around long enough and they think they are people.
6) Underbrush and weed control, they eat EVERYTHING. Blackberry briars, poison ivy, little weeds, and everything else you never wanted around the house to begin with and it doesn't taint or contaminate the milk.
Now I will say that I can see that having a milk cow would be fun and the idea of it is just a nice little house on the prairie type deal. But for most people they don't have the room, finances or time for a cow, so goats work. And are very easy.
He has agreed twice and then forgotten about it. But I haven;t gotten one quite yet because I have a huge work load until he is done with deployment. Super mom has pooped out. Lucky for me work is at the comp so I get to rest my feet when I sit down to do it here.
