I'll soon be releasing a companion book to my 2017 book: Holistic Goat Care. It's called THE USEFUL GOAT: MEAT, MILK, FIBER, AND MORE. The book will be small, about 120 pages, with color images, and available first as an ebook only, with plans for a paperback. I'd love to include a few photographs from … Continue reading Announcing My New Book on Goats
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The Importance of Monitoring Somatic Cell Counts
Awhile back the FDA raised the maximum number of somatic cells that Grade A goat milk can contain from the former limit of 1,000,000 to 1,500,000. Our state (Oregon) followed suit just this year and adopted the new limit for goat milk and also lowered the cow level from the FDA level of 750,000 to … Continue reading The Importance of Monitoring Somatic Cell Counts
The Legend of Goat Milk as “The Most Complete Food Known”
The Urban (Rural?) Legend of Goat Milk “The Most Complete Food Known” Gianaclis Caldwell Okay, just Google it. “Goat milk complete food”. You will find the venerable Journal of American Medicine (JAMA) quoted repeatedly (I counted 14 different citations on the first two pages of searching) in such turns of phrase as “as the Journal … Continue reading The Legend of Goat Milk as “The Most Complete Food Known”