goats & sheep
2021 Updated Wellness Maintenance Calendar
Goats & Parasites – Excerpt from The Energetic Goat by Carrie Eastman
Holistic practitioners have been using contact reflex diagnosis, muscle testing, and dowsing to improve human health for centuries. For lifelong alternative medicine practitioner Carrie Eastman, applying these methods to her goat herd was just common sense. All living things are…
The Energetic Goat – Transitioning Goats To Chemical-Free Management
The Energetic Goat was published a couple years back. I have been pulling some of the most useful sections out and summarizing them to help my readers make the leap of faith into chemical-free management. I find that one of…
Tea time for the goats – bye bye parasites
I am using a new approach to herbal deworming for my goat herd this spring. We are having a daily tea party. Kristie Miller at Land of Havilah gave me the idea, as she has been using it successfully with…
2016 kidding season at Barakah Farm (formerly Oak Hill)
2016 kidding season is partway finished. 9 kids on the ground and another 7 does to kid. Kid news is posted on the website.
Goats – The Great Horns versus No Horns Debate
Want to start a heated argument on social media? Ask whether you should disbud/dehorn your goat or leave horns intact. Horns on goats are a very touchy subject that impacts everything from management practicalities to human safety to animal welfare.…
Annual Wellness Calendar For My Horses, Dogs, Goats & Cats
Here are the annual wellness programs for my own horses, dogs, cats and goats. All items marked with an asterisk* are from Dynamite Specialty Products and can be found on the website www.dynamitemarketing.com/carrieeastman My horses Jan – March amino acid-chelated vitamin/mineral…
Updated – Goat nutrition at Oak Hill
My last post on the full Oak Hill program was a couple years back. I’ve learned more since then about what works best for my herd on my land. This feels like a good time to update my readers on…
CAE, CL and Johnes in goats
Ever since my holistic book The Energetic Goat came out I’ve been getting questions about the top three tested goat diseases – CAE, CL and Johnes. So I put together a resource for the holistic owner. If you know of…
Heirloom & heritage plants and animals
How many of you are familiar with heirloom plants and heritage animals? How about landrace animals? A heritage livestock breed is a breed that was traditionally raised by farmers before agriculture went large-scale. These heritage breeds may or may not…
