While living in the national forests of the Southeastern United States, we maintained a pair of Alpine dairy goats in order to obtain fresh milk. Goats are naturally accustomed to mountainous terrain and so thrived from eating the local foliage around our campsites.
DIARY GOATS
Meet Veda and Padma
They love to eat pine trees, thorn bushes, and acorns.
We would milk Veda every morning; she would give 1 quart per day.
And Padma would love to frollic.
This is where Veda and Padma sleep:
We made their shelter from recycled materials and would daily change their bedding with fresh pine needles and leaves.
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