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I'm a little jealous you get to live there FB! It must be awesome to sit at the river and think...if you can ..with all the nekkid ladies runnin' around! Did I mention you have really cute goats , Forest!?
I'm a little jealous you get to live there FB! It must be awesome to sit at the river and think...if you can ..with all the nekkid ladies runnin' around! Did I mention you have really cute goats , Forest!?
T'aint bad.
Got some nice chickens too, and a real friendly hog [he just wants his belly rubbed give him some fruit and he will be gone]. they are all freeranging around here.
Got some nice chickens too, and a real friendly hog [he just wants his belly rubbed give him some fruit and he will be gone]. they are all freeranging around here.
Got a picture of your hoggie? AAwwww,didn't you say he was going to be sausage soon?
Got a picture of your hoggie? AAwwww,didn't you say he was going to be sausage soon?
Yum...don't forget bacon, ribs and chops!! I think it is awesome that you take care of almost all your needs. Self-sustaining is a great way to be...you will never go hungry that way!!!
He has been freeranging all summer long, I only penned him up last week. And he is not very happy about being penned up.
Even before I penned him up, he tried to keep himself covered in mud. My DW has had problems when she leaves the house to go to work, as porky will run to her and try to rub against her. His snout slime and general mud gets wiped onto anyone's pants who gets near him. So she has been having me go out with her to escort her to the car, to keep porky from wiping himself against her clean clothing.
He really likes the attention.
I give him a 5-gallon bucket of produce and a 1-gallon bucket of grain each morning and each afternoon.
The chickens are always around him, hoping for some bit of food that he does not want.
There were a few times this summer, when I have hosed him down [he really likes the water], and he lays out in the sun, and he does look much better [not so mud covered].
He is cute...can't you wait until he's had a full life before you give him the hatchet, FB?!? Goodness, I would never make it on a farm..I'd have escape routes for the animals...
I will need much better shelters to winter-over hogs. And after the first six months of growth their increase in size slows down. You simply do not get as much meat per pound of feed return.
I would like to have a winter shelter and to keep a boar and a sow, to produce a litter of squealers each spring. But we are not ready for that yet.
Right now we just went from one dozen hens [last winter] to four dozen hens [this coming winter]. One goat last winter, we had fifteen goats this spring, but most had died through a wide assortment of ailments, now we have five goats that we hope to take through the winter. Next spring we want to add 6 or 8 sheep to the mix.
Then we will be planting sixteen apple trees, and we will be building a greenhouse.
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