As for Eva.... I had a jersey cow years ago, that I bred AI... Checked preg at 60 days.... Then she showed typical heat a tivity.....riding and fully standing for another cow to ride her.... Over the course of 5 months had her rechecked and was still "pregnant".... And she was with a bull after...
Yes I think @Finnie 's phone is an iPhone... Mine is android . She took some pics of speckled Sussex for you @fuzzi . I have a bunch more pics.....some nice turkeys....
Bought 2 trios of big NH's.... Looked seriously at a some NH bantams.... But didn't do it. Think I should have. Oh well...
Met @Finnie ...had a great visit....seems my phone will not load the pic she sent to me. Had someone take pics of us on her phone. Tried every which way....the file is not jpg but something like heic... Won't load for me. So, will have to get @Finnie to upload that one..
But here are a few I...
@fuzzi, yes @Finnie is right... they got loaded on the trailer and moved back to the pasture where I had gotten them caught up the other day... simply because they will come back to the nurse cow pasture (snyder's) to calve... but I have the 13 there that calved this fall, and they have to get...
Cool 42 this morning... Sun is coming over the trees across the road...
Looked out and several clothes scattered on the grass... I expected that. Going out to put them back on the line to dry off the wet dew/cold... will be able to bring them in later. Supposed to be nice and sunny.
Got a...
Wed eve... it is warmer than it looks, the wind is blowing like it is a BIG HURRY to get somewhere... at least it is halfway warm... BUT that is supposed to change... pretty decent tomorrow and Friday... into Sat... some hit and miss showers coming through... more miss than hit it looks like...
Make sure that any meat type birds you raise that you keep their protein high enough. They grow too fast and need that extra. Most "meat bird feeds" will be 18-25% protein... the higher needed in the earliest stages... I feed a turkey/game bird type feed for the protein... and no medications.
Love and hugs to you and Teresa.... she was a sweetheart and so totally devoted to you. It will be hard for Lance as well as both of you. I am glad that you got to find the best time for her to go and she was still "Sassy" to you.
You have the copy they "returned to you"... they initialed it or stamped it or whatever... Tell them that since THEY LOST/SHREDDED the original... it is THEIR RESPONSIBILITY to accept what they already recorded... and that if they give you grief... threaten them with a lawyer... I would get real...
Not saying that a more "sustainable breed" of meat chickens is bad.... BUT.... you have to raise them up to egg laying size, so say average 20 weeks, then get eggs, hopefully they will be fertile... then raise the chicks to killing size. In the meantime the adults will lay halfway decent...
Tuesday morning... 38 to start, sun is out... going to warm up in the low 60's if the wind isn't too bad.
Yesterday was interesting. Went up to help DS .... ANOTHER water leak... right up at the well head.. DS needed to dig things up, there was a pool of water up there. He had run the well...
Idiot people... big ideas, no idea of actual costs and responsibilities... buying horses they don't need, animals they cannot properly house for the brutal winters you have...
I am soooo far past the doing things "for charity" to be nice and helpful to people anymore... Been taken advantage of...
I am not surprised by the damage the feral hogs are inflicting. I just had no idea they were that bad in Australia. In TX I have seen several types of traps.. including the round type that drop when triggered by something... and the ones on the video phone cameras are good as it allows the...
As for the Bresse; After all that I have read and heard... from some on here also... I will not even consider trying them... I was considering them very seriously at first.
I know that there is so much "negativity" to the commercial rock/cornish type meat chicks. BUT... if you raise them out...
My DS gets allowance for miles for his dr appts.... so agree with @Mini Horses , might be a little help with getting some other transportation once a week or something...