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One thing most might not have heard... Tyson is closing their slaughter plant in Lexington Neb.... kill about 5,000 a day... over 10,000 employees... You know what this is going to do to this small town???? Funny that this is right after Trump wanted the DOJ to look into the "collusion" of the...

Monday evening. Turned out to be a nice day... Sun all day. It was comfortably warm with just a long sleeved shirt. I went to Snyder's... nurse cow pasture... to see about getting the heifers in with their calves. Did not expect to get them all, was hoping for half... Started out not so...

Up early, back ache... laid back down for a bit again. Got up and the sun was out and looking to be nice. Supposed to cloud up later this afternoon and then some into rain for the morning... Went down to the farm and got grain/pellets for the cows... DS was down in the field and he was...

Vermont was known for the saying, there are 5 seasons, fall, winter, mud season, spring, and summer was the day you played baseball in July.....

And Vermont, and New Hampshire, and Pennsylvania, and New York State, and Virginia......:lol::lol::lol:;);)

A head catch of some sort is a NECESSITY.... a squeeze chute is not... We do not have a squeeze chute, at any of the places we work cattle. Yes, it would be nice, NO it is NOT essential. A head catch, stanchion, or something that will catch their head and prevent them from getting their head...

On the subject of Cody... did he make plans/arrangements to go about that job in Texas???? Any news???

YEAH, me too... walked all through the taller grass and around and NOTHING.... Heard an owl this evening, but this was in the broad daylight so really don't think it was an owl. Went to the dumpster and tossed several bags of trash. Went to the pasture and fed the group of mostly all the...

Some of mother's ancestors came over on the mayflower also... some of Conn. was originally settled by mom's family surname... He//, we might be related :gig:gig:gig:gig

You add in the Mohawk back on the other side of my father's "shady" relatives.... Mother's side is straight English... traced back by her father to some 1000 minor earl or something...

Once they get some size, the turkeys are not a worry with any hawks... once I get the perimeter fence.....:ducdone.... DS has a friend helping him some... the guy is good at things but goes off on "benders".... drugs maybe??? just does not apply himself and cannot be found for weeks on end...

@Weldman ....Better hurry and get your root cellar/water cistern storage finished and covered up....

@drstratton ......We had that hawk problem last year; one up at the nurse cow pasture across the road, just fell off the power line one day, and was dead on the ground... the other one I had seen around disappeared after that so I figured they were a pair and the other left. I have not seen...

🥶🥶🥶 Yep, we are supposed to have lows in the 20's after Thanksgiving...

Sunday morning... Not too bad, 39 out there, sun is coming up and is supposed to be a nice day. Tonight is supposed to get down to low 30's... Drove in rain all the way to the poultry show... since it was heading east and so was I .........got into some awful traffic; some accident.... but...

According to weight... slaughter sized hogs here are in the 2-250 lb range... yours might be leaner built... hogs in general are down some... $.55 to .70 lb.... so maybe $125 to 150 for a 200 lb hog average... Fat sausage type hogs will bring closer to .75 a lb.... but they are not money makers...

So, did you keep a couple sows and the boar for breeding?

One of our relatives was supposed to be a pirate... went to Haiti or Jamaica or something... my brother SWEARS we do not have any $@#&% (people of color) ... I'd claim them... one actually came to the US and wound up tracking down my grandmother and they established the connection... Sadly...

Ready to head out the door to go to the poultry show... had some light rain overnight, supposed to get some moderate rain here this morning... hope it does rain . Temps are a comfortable 57 out there ... didn't drop below 54 overnight. Had to laugh at @Baymule 's comment above that even she...

I was going to suggest Flex Seal tape... The previous owners used it on some cracks in the bottom of the tub here... still holding well.... eventually going to replace the bathtub/surround so not going to go to alot of trouble to fix it... It works good.