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M Many invasive things in southern states are not a problem here because winter kills them lol. So yeah have to look into it more but invasive isnt a deal breaker depending on several factors. I am imagining there is a reason no one here has heard of it though. Well that was quick...grows in...

So far we are very happy with our new truck!!! We drove it home thursday night from about 2hrs away and did some running around locally. Friday it drove 6hrs round trip to pick up our new tractor, plus about 45 mins locally getting ready. It pulled the tractor and car trailer beautifully even up...

That was a big part of it....more vehicles more options. Atm my 2014 cruze needs to go get a new catalytic converter put into it which will need it to be at the shop for probly a week....they wont be working on it that whole time of course but it will sit there for a day before they even look at...

Thank you very much for the info Mike! I will have to look into it more, it does not exist here so far as I can tell. Really no one has ever heard of it locally. I also can't find any info for planting zones for it as of yet, I do know it is invasive in the southern states supposedly.

Yesterday we bought another truck. This thing is no beauty but its in good shape for what it is. We got a 2000 chevy silverado....... for $1500. It does have 343k miles on the body but the engine only has 200k on it, which is not low mileage but its was $1,500 lol. We were pleasantly surprised...

Thank you Bay, I do try to think ahead....doesn't always work lol but I try!

No worries at all I know you are just looking out for my best interests in an area you likely know more about then I do! I'm always happy to have your advice. Funny enough when we went downstate in 2019 on one of the trips I saw a field with those tiny round bales and was like wtf is that!!! I...

Yes there are! The round baler we normally get our bales from is a 4x4 baler so bales only weigh around 500lbs, the large round bales are 5x6 and weigh around 1300lbs locally but if you get a hardheart baler it packs in more hay so they can get up to 1700lbs or so. Usually the 4x4 balers can be...

Hey Mike I remember a while back you were looking into doing the sericea lespedeza seeding and had ordered some. Have you noticed any improvement from it? Looking at possibly adding it to our worm management after having high loads last year. Already we have 2 lambs this year that look like they...

No easy at all...tanning a cow hide takes 8 weeks. Deer is less time 4-5weeks. They all take time and special tools. You also have to work the hide if you want it "soft" it's the difference between leather and say....rawhide lol.

Just grass no not worth it. How big of an area do they have? If you are below your local stocking rates it may just be a case of keeping them off the pasture or strip grazing while the pasture establishes. Also don't do sod but do plant a good pasture mix seed, we just seeded ours with alfalfa...

There is a good reason those cow hide rugs are not cheap. I agree with Bay the time, skill, and effort it will take for you to make your own rug if you can get the hide back is quite a thing. Be aware you may also end up ruining the hide in the tanning process, or losing the hair, not scraping...

It's possible, though what your actually allergic to who knows. As mentioned it could be anything in the meat, or the meat itself. Most people with a "meat" allergy are just allergic to something in the meat, meaning they can't have certain classes of meat like Beekissed mentioned. So unless...

It's not cheap for us, the median income here is only $29,000/year per household. That's why I drive 45 minutes to work each way and DH drives 30 minutes to work each way. Our "normal" land cost before 2020 was $1250-1500/acre so $2500 or more an acre is a big jump. Our 12 acres of just the...

30.15hp is the official listed for the PTO.....this is a tractor from 1953 though so some of the ponies might have gotten out. It is still going to better for most things then our backs lol. We have a old small square baler that was ran behind a Ford 8N a few years ago, though it was a rough...

We have had house lambs and goats many times, when they start bouncing off the walls they go outside. Oddly though this is the first ever kid/lamb who has somehow house trained herself. She drinks her bottle then jumps in that bin with the straw and does her pee and poo, then jumps out, I have a...

My own personal house elf....she is fascinated with the stairs. As of Sunday night the new pasture is finished and the goats are living in the new pasture with a temporary truck topper shelter. They seem pretty happy and the best part, no one has jumped out. They have met the electric fence...

If it ever gets easy I will quit having livestock. Every loss is hard no matter the reason, you learn but it always sucks when it is at the cost of your livestock.

I can understand that! Esp up here where I live there are not many moonspotted boers. Most people up here think moonspotted means mutt meat goat lol.

To save anyone digging I['m going to upload some pics again. This is Mr Goat's(our moonspotted buck) dad as a kid This is him as an adult This is Mr. Goat's mom This is Mr. Goat as a kid I cant find my adult pics of Mr. Goat on this pc.