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Doberman's fell out of favor because they attack people. It is a fact and we are 100% aware of it which is why we train our dogs the way we do. Dobermans are pretty misunderstood. You hear everyone say LGDs are a whole different kind of dog.....Dobie's are too. LGDs and Dobies are the smartest...

BeeKissed Response: And that's how it's supposed to be done!!!! I so wish other people took the time to train their dogs in such a way.....so many dogs would not wind up in shelters if people would just train them to have proper manners, to be obedient to their owners, to respect humans and...

That's something we do with our doberman's. We teach them ALL food of any kind is our food not theirs. We can give the food, take the food, move the food, hold our hand in the dishes, pick up the food, open their mouths and take the food back out, etc. The food never belongs to them so they...

This conversation started in another thread so I am moving it over here with it associated posts.

I will go make another thread for this so we don't take over the OPs.

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I suppose it is normally ND, I dunno I use NG I guess for NiGerian.....who knows :lol:

When we get them processed I can send you some for sure Bruce though it won't be prime at that point because they are over age. My sister moved to another state for the time being, so no she wont be coming to get it. I didnt post it here but right before christmas it came out that her husband...

I to would go a different route. Firstly I would make sure the hay barn doors face the road and has a drive thru on the end or middle of the building, backing out/turning around hay racks sucks. Drive thru is very helpful for driving out round bales as well if you decide to use those at some...

That's something we do with our doberman's. We teach them ALL food of any kind is our food not theirs. We can give the food, take the food, move the food, hold our hand in the dishes, pick up the food, open their mouths and take the food back out, etc. The food never belongs to them so they...

Our sheep go to a 12 acre summer pasture about 13 miles from our house. So far I see them a couple times in the summer when i drive by or stop a time or two but for the most part until fall when it is time to flush them I dont see them more then maybe 10 times from may to october. To be fair...

Sounds like you got some NG with really nice big teats. Our NGs and our mini's had the worlds smallest teats I swear. They were legitimately the same size as a sharpie marker but only about 1.5" long. It was misery! They were being bred for size by the previous owners though not udders/milking.

All the males except the one from the big ewe will be sold. The big ewe's ram lamb is ear marked to become a herdsire due to his parents size so long as he keeps performing well. The suffolk ewe lambs will be retained for breeders. We will be looking into selling our smaller ram Captain for...

Thank you Bay! We ended up with 9 lambs from our 7 ewes. We currently have 8 left. One of the mutts had twins and one was super small and did not make it past the first 24hrs. It was actually "warm" at that point so I think it just wasnt strong enough. It was of course a girl. The lambs all...

Not sure if I posted it here but we are up to the 2 ram lambs, 1 ewe lamb and now our first ever suffolk twin lambs were born yesterday evening. We have not had a chance to check sex yet as we didnt want to interupt their bonding. They are fairly small and it was 13F last night so hopefully they...

Very true! Different types of conditioning for different areas. Livestock here do have it rough they have to be able to survive weather down to -37F and up to 112F. To be fair both ends of that scale are rare events, a more average scaled would be -15F to 99F which is still quite a range.

Pigs dont get vaccinations usually.....but what is the purpose of the pig? Feeder pigs you are raising for 6 months and butchering or breeding pigs? Feeder pigs dont need wormed or vacinated 99.9% of the time, just feed and then butcher when it is time. Breeder pigs might need wormed at some...

I'm glad to hear all the freezing weather is over for you guys. Calves are touchy and raised in cold barns or outdoor pens here. For dairy they get 24hrs to nurse or get a bottle of colostrum then outside they go or off to the cold barn. Beef calves are just born outside in the field, most...

Hope you guys are doing well in your crazy weather. Thank you for the info! Our weather report was wrong...today is gonna be 41F now they say, yesterday and the day before was 35F. The little ram lambs are still doing fine by all appearances. We also had a girl lamb born on Saturday, she is...

I have thought about the heating pads I just didnt think they would work very well. Glad to know they do. We usually only have 10-25 chicks per brooder so if it could handle that it might be something to look into. The two lambs are still going! It was -14F last night, those rams are going to...