University of Edinburgh – Animal Welfare Course

Over the past month or so I have been undertaking a course through the University of Edinburgh - Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) faculty.  Basically the MOOCs are free courses and cover a range of interesting subjects with a Certificate of Attainment if you successfully complete the course.  I don’t get any qualifications out of it but the course I did (Animal Welfare) was a subject of interest and provide some interesting concepts an...

Hatching, Matching, Dispatching

In the past month, we have had two of our goats pass, both suddenly, both prized milkers and both sadly missed.  The first one who died was Scarlett, our only goat that was still in milk, who went from being fit and healthy one day to passing less than 24 hours later.  We believe that it was either something she ate or something had bitten her, either way she went quickly and didn’t seem in to much pain when she died.  Heather first noticed that she was sc...