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yep. Both of the black and white 'oreos' are female, the red and white one is a male. Sadly, we lost 2 a couple of weeks ago. One was the runt and had been stepped on within the first day of life. She did well for awhile, but then we had a week of single digit and negative digit...

Quick question: What counts as 'grain' for goats? Specifically whethers? Do you have to watch intake of all grain type feed? Does pelletized goat feed hold the same dangers as rolled mix, sweet mix, or just whole grain wheat or corn?

They look awesome and will be tasty for sure! Love the pooey goo story We have had raining for several days which always turns our pens into soup.

They are a Hampshire cross. Crossed with what? We think the boar is a duroc.

I haven't tried uncut boar before, and I am not terribly excited to try it now. However, since it is my husband that will have to do the cutting, if he chooses not to do it, I get we will just roll with it. I'm not going to do it, our boar is 700 lbs! I do know that several years ago we...

I just looked up Kinder goats on google images. I think you are right. She does seem to fit right in there.

We are not milking her. We did for a few days after we got her, but my kids don't like the milk, and she was trying to dry up anyways, so we let her. I noticed that her rear end was messy too, but I don't think she has scours. We just moved everyone to richer pasture/grass. They always have a...

@HomesteaderWife - for applesauce, I use a victorrio strainer. I quarter the apples, (don't worry about coring or peeling), boil them in a large pot until fork tender, then run them through the strainer. The strainer separates the cores and peels from the pulp. We collect the pulp, boil it in...

Mama pig really wants to be closer to her babies. She keeps digging out the dirt under her crate and scooting under it as far as she can get. I figure we will give the babies a day or so more to get stronger and faster and then we will let her out of the crate. No point in keeping them...

I'm pretty afraid of full grown pigs too. This mama is about 400 lbs, and she is the smaller of the 2 gilts! She has been so good though. She did step on 2 of them yesterday. I think 1 will make it, but the other died a few hours later. She was very unsettled after that, and very concerned...

she is almost as tall as my yearling nubian does. Which is mostly why I question the ND. It seems to me she is a bit big?

I really like her. She is kind of ornery, but I think she is just spunky. I can't wait to get kids out of her

This is our Grammy goat. We did not ever intend to buy her. My husband had bid on and purchased 3 newly weaned kids. When he picked them up, someone had insisted that she had purchased one of our weanlings. So they offered Grammy goat to us, she was in dire need of a milking and no one had...

I think you can raise pigs year round. Pigs are not seasonal breeders, they cycle every 3 weeks. We have another pig that should farrow in about a month, then we will have both mamas in with the boar. Then the boar will be turned into sausage (current plan) and we will wait on another batch...

I have canned 100 quarts and 24 pints of peaches, several qts of plum juice, and about 100 pints of different types of jellie/jams (strawberry, raspberry, elderberry, chokecherry). This has kind of been a slow year for me. We have several qts of applesauce from years past, so I just can't get...

Today was the big day. I went out and checked on our mama pig at 9:30 this morning and could tell that she was not well. She tried to get up to greet me and then just laid down with a "it's just too much work" look about her. She was breathing funny, kind of like she would inhale, hold her...

All three of my girlies are marked! Woot! Woot! Went out yesterday and Oreo had been marked, then today, Baby. I am so excited! Looks like end of February to the middle of March we should be seeing kids!

I found a study that was ultimately inconclusive on the pumpkin seed as a wormer thing. It was interesting to read, but not really forthcoming with info.

Finally a sign of breeding! I went out today and our grammy goat (we picked her up at the livestock sale in June and she seems kind of older) had been marked! And boy does our buck STINK! I am much encouraged and hope that this will all be wildly successful. Now to see if our nubian girlies...