Post by bj on Nov 5, 2019 10:28:17 GMT -5
Hello everyone. My name is BJ and my wife is Debbie. We own NuMosa Farms, which is a goat farm. We have Nigerians and a few Pygmy's. My wife also teaches painting and arts & crafts here at NuMosa Studios at the farm as well. Add to that, she also makes soap, body lotions, body scrubs from goat milk. She is a very beautiful and talanted lady..
Our plans for our retirement which is hopefully in five years, is converting our farm to a "farming bed & breakfest. We are only six miles from the beach, Ocean City Maryland, so we are in a prime location for such a venture. To help with the alure of farm, we plan on adding a couple Alpacas, chickens, ducks, and a cow or two...lol
My wife and I both grew up on farms, and have been around all kinds of farm animals our entire lives. She was raised on a hog farm where they had 350 to 400 hogs at a time, and i was raised on a horse farm breeding Tennessee Walkers. We would also raise a steer a year for the freezer. Normally there was also a dairy cow or two. However, due to be a young age, my dealings with the cattle was mostly just feeding, or rotating them between feed pastures. So although im not completely new to cattle, i have never raised them on my own.
I am mainly considering either Dexter or Jersey, mainly due to their gentle nature and smaller size. Above all, this will be a PET COW, with human contact no less than two times a day. This is also the way out goats have been raised since birth. So im sure i will be asking a lot of questions that many of you take for granted, but as my old platoon sergeant use to say, "There is no such thing as a dumb question if you dont already know the answer. Lol
Thank you,
BJ
Our plans for our retirement which is hopefully in five years, is converting our farm to a "farming bed & breakfest. We are only six miles from the beach, Ocean City Maryland, so we are in a prime location for such a venture. To help with the alure of farm, we plan on adding a couple Alpacas, chickens, ducks, and a cow or two...lol
My wife and I both grew up on farms, and have been around all kinds of farm animals our entire lives. She was raised on a hog farm where they had 350 to 400 hogs at a time, and i was raised on a horse farm breeding Tennessee Walkers. We would also raise a steer a year for the freezer. Normally there was also a dairy cow or two. However, due to be a young age, my dealings with the cattle was mostly just feeding, or rotating them between feed pastures. So although im not completely new to cattle, i have never raised them on my own.
I am mainly considering either Dexter or Jersey, mainly due to their gentle nature and smaller size. Above all, this will be a PET COW, with human contact no less than two times a day. This is also the way out goats have been raised since birth. So im sure i will be asking a lot of questions that many of you take for granted, but as my old platoon sergeant use to say, "There is no such thing as a dumb question if you dont already know the answer. Lol
Thank you,
BJ
