http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1708-8305.1996.tb00700.x/pdf

I would not recommend each household own a single goat. A lone goat will live a stressful life. Goats socialize best with other goats in a herd. When no other goats are available, other sociable herd animals can be used as surrogate goat friends. Dogs are inadequate to pair with goats due to dogs being pack animals with predatory instincts.

From Newsweek.
“The Depressing News About Antidepressants
Studies suggest that the popular drugs are no more effective than a placebo. In fact, they may be worse.”

http://www.newsweek.com/2010/01/28/the-depressing-news-about-antidepressants

Preparation
Mortar and pestle used for grinding insoluble solids, including quartz and oyster shells, into homeopathic remedies.

In producing remedies for diseases, homeopaths use a process called dynamisation or potentisation whereby a substance is diluted with alcohol or distilled water and then vigorously shaken by ten hard strikes against an elastic body in a process called succussion.[55] Hahnemann advocated using substances that produce symptoms like those of the disease being treated, but found that material doses intensified the symptoms and exacerbated the condition, sometimes causing dangerous toxic reactions. He therefore specified that the substances be diluted. Hahnemann believed that the succussion activated the vital energy of the diluted substance[56] and made it stronger. To facilitate succussion, Hahnemann had a saddle-maker construct a special wooden striking board covered in leather on one side and stuffed with horsehair.[57][58] Insoluble solids, such as quartz and oyster shell, are diluted by grinding them with lactose (trituration).
Dilutions
Main article: Homeopathic dilutions

Three logarithmic potency scales are in regular use in homeopathy. Hahnemann created the centesimal or C scale, diluting a substance by a factor of 100 at each stage. The centesimal scale was favored by Hahnemann for most of his life. A 2C dilution requires a substance to be diluted to one part in one hundred, and then some of that diluted solution diluted by a further factor of one hundred. This works out to one part of the original substance in 10,000 parts of the solution.[59] A 6C dilution repeats this process six times, ending up with the original material diluted by a factor of 100−6=10−12 (one part in one trillion or 1/1,000,000,000,000). Higher dilutions follow the same pattern. In homeopathy, a solution that is more dilute is described as having a higher potency, and more dilute substances are considered by homeopaths to be stronger and deeper-acting remedies.[60] The end product is often so diluted that it is indistinguishable from the dilutant (pure water, sugar or alcohol).[10][61][62]

Hahnemann advocated 30C dilutions for most purposes (that is, dilution by a factor of 1060).[63] In Hahnemann’s time it was reasonable to assume that remedies could be diluted indefinitely, as the concept of the atom or molecule as the smallest possible unit of a chemical substance was just beginning to be recognized. The greatest dilution that is reasonably likely to contain even one molecule of the original substance is 12C.
This bottle contains arnica montana (wolf’s bane) D6, i.e. the nominal dilution is one part in a million (10-6).

Some homeopaths developed a decimal scale (D or X), diluting the substance to ten times its original volume each stage. The D or X scale dilution is therefore half that of the same value of the C scale; for example, “12X” is the same level of dilution as “6C”. Hahnemann never used this scale but it was very popular throughout the 19th century and still is in Europe. This potency scale appears to have been introduced in the 1830s by the American homeopath, Constantine Hering.[64] In the last ten years of his life, Hahnemann also developed a quintamillesimal (Q) or LM scale diluting the drug 1 part in 50,000 parts of diluent.[65] A given dilution on the Q scale is roughly 2.35 times its designation on the C scale. For example a remedy described as “20Q” has about the same concentration as a “47C” remedy.[66]
X Scale, D Scale C Scale Ratio Note
Ø Ø 1:1 mother tincture[67] (undiluted)
1X, D1 — 1:10 described as low potency
2X, D2 1C 1:100 called higher potency than 1X by homeopaths
6X, D6 3C 10−6
8X, D8 4C 10−8 allowable concentration of arsenic in U.S. drinking water[68]
12X, D12 6C 10−12
24X, D24 12C 10−24 Has a 60% probability of containing one molecule of original material if one mole of the original substance was used.
60X, D60 30C 10−60 Dilution advocated by Hahnemann for most purposes;[63] patient would need to consume 10 to the 41st power pills (a billion times the mass of the Earth), or 1034 gallons of liquid remedy (10 billion times the volume of the Earth) to consume a single molecule of the original substance[69] Moreover, since even in a 15C solution there would very likely be no molecules of the original substance left, the 30C solution would probably contain no molecules of water that had come into contact with the original substance.
400X, D400 200C 10−400 Dilution of popular homeopathic flu remedy Oscillococcinum
Note: the “X scale” is also called “D scale”. 1X = D1, 2X = D2, etc.

If you have a 1000 goats in a dairy explain how those goats are properly kept?

Numbering goats and training them to be milked in a stall to relieve the milk pressure developing in thier utters because you’ve taken away thier kid?

Homeophatic treatments are individually based.
This requires an intimate realtionship with the animal.

I would rather see each household own a goat to replace lawn mowers and weed eaters.

It would be great to have a cheese dairy that accepted milk from the community.

That was the way it used to work before the laws were rewritten after WWII to protect corperations and their markets.

This was done under the guise of public health which requires the pasturization of milk.

Pasturization was developed by Luis Pasture to protect the French population from anthrax over 200 years ago.

Pasturization does kill harmfull pathagens like anthrax but it also kills the benifical.

pasturized milk will rot and sour, non pasterized milk turns to yogurt or cheese depending upon how you store it.

Whole living takes a balenced approach.

micro managable scale.

If you should take the time to reexamine the motives behind our laws with a eye focussed on corperate influence and protectionisum.

you will see just how far the retoric of freedom stands from the reality.

I am glad to see the corperate dairy rejected.

Now let us organize a true community dariy.

Co Immunity by sharing and blending healthy milk.

It helps to know the origins of words.

Tom

I get a bit mmore concerned when I hear about people using homeopathic “remedies” on their children, because the kids don’t have a choice, and may be suffering needlessly, or in a more extreme case their health may be put at serious risk. But again, if it’s not a particularly serious issue, and if the child is old enough to know that they are being given the “medicine” and perhaps to believe that it may help them, then the placebo effect may indeed lead to some reduction in pain and suffering, perhaps even some increase in how fast they heal/recover. So I don’t think it’s a great idea, but probably not a big deal in those cases, just harmlessly foolish. An infant, however, really cannot benefit at all from the placebo effect, because they don’t know they are being “treated” and can’t “believe in” the treatment.

I think the same would apply to animals — since they don’t know that the homeopathic “medicine” is supposed to help them, they won’t benefit from the placebo effect, and will continue to suffer pain and/or illness just the same as if they didn’t get the treatment at all. My guess is that in these cases it only acts as a guilt-reducing mechanism for the animal’s keeper, who feels like they’ve “done something.” Then, if the animal eventually heals/recovers, the keeper attributes that healing/recovery to the homeopathic “medicine.”

Bottom line: If someone wants to use homeopathic “remedies” for themselves, and believes these remedies help them, well then I’m not particularly interested in talking them out of it. The connection between having a positive attitude and healing/recovering is pretty well documented, and placebos actually can reduce pain and suffering, at least to some degree. But if someone is going to try this stuff on small children and animals, that’s where I think it’s really a bad idea, with the helpless recipient of the “remedy” likely to suffer needlessly, and possibly have their health seriously impacted.

McKinleyville Central Market carries Summerhill Goat Dairy milk.

It has been great fun to see your replies to Andrew regarding homeopathy. I think you and the other Eye readers will appreciate this article from skeptic.com’s website: “The Immortal Lily The Pink -
The 100th anniversary of the FDA marks a milestone in medicine before which cranks and charlatans ran amok” (scroll down the page for the article)

http://www.skeptic.com/eskeptic/07-12-12/

“Animal Welfare Approved” is all about pretty websites and pseudoscience. They aren’t to be taken seriously.

If there’s anyone with a conscience at AWA, they ought to consider their role in recommending that animals be treated with magic vibration water rather than medicine.