Recent content by farmerjan

Had to upload that as my computer was giving me some issues and did not want it all to get erased... So, I have a bottle calf.... and maybe a few more... Or, maybe a nurse cow and several calves if I can get it to work... If I can get her to learn the barn for grain, and she will not be a...

Friday night... Long day... longer for DS... it was 42 overnight, cloudy grey today... warmed up to 54 and we got some light rain/sprinkles... Been that way all afternoon... Went back to test... woke up at 3, didn't have to be up until 4 but I didn't dare go back to sleep because sure as...

That's going to be some SERIOUS raised bed "re" building... !!!!

I used the "traveling van vet" that the local shelter uses... Think it was Angels of Assisi..... $100 for my female to get spayed... same deal, drop off, pick up in the late afternoon. She was a couple weeks pregnant. Had to make an appt with them and pay up front...they have limited spaces...

We can't weigh and label and sell meat here that way so I really have no suggestions for you. If you are looking at new... Try A and A scales out of NJ.... Have had people tell me their livestock scales are very good... so looking at one for our barn to weigh cattle... but they advertise all...

Thursday eve... heading to bed to get up to go back and test in the morning. Not so good with the 3 cows... they walked fences hollering... Wound up getting out, down the road to the neighbors.. kept going... DS calls me as he was not home from Roanoke because he spent more time in the auto...

Thursday morning. Been up and at it for awhile. Was 38 overnight... sun came up and it has warmed nicely. About 60 now... Some high clouds out there mixing in and the forecast is to get cloudier later... Showers possible overnight.. then some actual rain Friday eve-Sat morning. Saying...

Long day but the weather was good... high hit 70, sun was warm, light breeze.... Went to the barn, DS & GF came... we sorted the calves off the one "side of the barn"... cows from the 1st 2 places... 18c/cf total... then sorted the other side 17 cows/13 calves.... Then we were taking some gate...

Stink bugs here are terrible too... find at least 1-2 every day in the house by the desk.... dozens one day I opened a box in the shed.... and NOTHING eats them.... like japanese beetles, nothing eats them..... Sorry about the houdan rooster... my little NH bantam rooster was real quiet...

Become as self sufficient as possible and try to support the local farmers.... Learn how to do the basics like canning.... make the grandchildren realize that it has to be GROWN in order to get to the processing plant to then get shipped to the store... it doesn't just "appear" in the grocery...

My grandparents had a gas station next door to their house... my Great Grandmother and her husband started it. When we were kids we would go down there, my grandfather ran it in the evenings after his 40 hr work week job... and it was fun to go help POP.... everytime a car would run over the...

Wow.... that would be great... hope they don't take up too much space... Thank You very much....

Tuesday... starting out at 38 overnight but already up to 43.... little bit foggy out there... Some clouds and supposed to be partly sunny. Temps up in the 50's plus. Yesterday was a decent day. I did the chickens water, stuck the samples in the explorer and he came to the house. We left...

Maybe save me a couple/few for the spring poultry swap??? PLEASE.... they hold up better than using small cardboard boxes for things like the electric fence insulators or carrying smaller amounts of fence staples and clips for the Tposts and such.... The shed looks real good...

Is the Ram flex fence that wide type that some of the people around here use for horses? Looks kinda nice, almost like "board fence ??? Make sure the charger is rated for "coated wire" ; there is something about using different chargers on wire that is like the poly net... have to be a...