Happy Independence Day weekend for those of you in the United States. Yes, we celebrate Independence Day.

Not that anybody in the mainstream remembers what July 4th is supposed to stand for, other than just, you know, fireworks in the sky.

But it actually is Independence Day for our nation. We'll see where that goes.

But this is Brighton broadcast news for Monday, July 3rd, 2023, Mike Adams here. Thank you for joining me.

I've got some interesting news about Twitter, but just, gosh, I smell like a goat right now because I just spent the last hour trimming the hooves of my elderly goat, who is not very mobile anymore.

She's on her last days and she's the one I have to help sometimes to pick her up on to get her back up onto her hind legs.

And sometimes she falls over and kind of gets stuck wherever she is if it's not convenient for her to kind of roll over and get up.

So I have to pick her up a few times a day. In fact, she's not walking around makes her hooves really grow.

And they're not being worn down like normal. So my other goats, all their hooves are fine. I check them, but I never have to trim them.

I've never had to trim goat hooves. Of course, because I walk my goats, you know, and then we have kind of rough soils.

You know, it's Texas. And so there's plenty of rocks in the sand in the soil. It's called Sandy Loam after all.

Lots of sand there, wears down their hooves. But anyway, so this goat is not walking around.

She's her hooves are growing like crazy. So I have to get in there and trim. I spent an hour with a hoof trimmer just kind of trying to trim all the excess hoof material away.

So she's not walking on high heels all the time. And in order to do that, I have to kind of have to pick her up and put her on her side in the back of a, like a little farm vehicle.

And then I have to kind of lean on her so that she doesn't get up. So that's why I smell like a goat. I actually have goat here.

But you know, as far as farm animals go, goats are not that bad. Actually, goats smell way better than chickens. In fact, goats are one of the cleanest farm animals you can have.

If you're looking for farm animals, you want to know what to start with. Goats are not a bad choice, actually.

Especially the smaller ones. They're relatively easy to handle. They don't smell that bad. And when they poop, it's pelletized.

It's like poop pellets for your garden or wherever you want to put them, your orchard. I mean, I wouldn't put them directly on my garden vegetables.

But for orchards and stuff, it's great. And it's great for the compost pile. So it's pelletized poop. It's really nice. Much better than chicken poop or cow poop or horse poop or donkey poop.

So I know you didn't expect to hear this on the Independence Day special, but there's a little poop wisdom in there for you.

If you're going to get some farm animals, check out goats. Even when you smell like a goat, it could be worse. It could be way worse. It's not that bad.

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