Well, I am on the hunt today for a new udder balm recipe for the deep cold, my regular balm is good and works well most of the time but does not seem quite enough for when I get really cold..

Now a few things I found interesting, one of which is that for the milking critter, if they start getting chapped skin, that its a sign of lack of vit a, and this can be fixed with adding some chopped carrots into their feed, and so I will start doing this with my little DF sheepy, and see if that makes a difference.

Having said that, I also need a now fix, so I am going to melt down one of my done healing salves from my cottonwood buds, that is to thick and I am going to add a freshly done infused almond oil with pepperment/elderflower/nettle and make it soft enough that it can be more easily spread on the teats.

While I am not sure that I want the cooling effects that pepperment brings, I have heard that its very good for first timer’s and so for girl that’s a very good thing.

If this weather ever clears up, and I need track down the different photos over the past two years, I want to do a post on the development of her bag, it seems to be darn near changing weekly at this point in her pregancy.

I also need to make a number of herb infused oils for planned coming soaps, I will do my best to keep notes and be able to post detailed recipes for you to go with the soaps..

While its fine to be a bit of this and that for baking/cooking, when it comes to soap making, it needs to be very detailed to make sure it works out correctly..

So anyone else make their own homemade udder salve for cows? Sheep? Goats? and if so, would you be willing to share your recipe?