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Hello from central Texas! (Between College Station and Austin). Love your garden!

I dosed mine when I first got them. Now I tend not to unless I feel like they’re off. They’re little tanks, though, and have been very healthy for me (I had two pot belly pigs that were always sick!). They get whatever veggies scraps are available - I’d never limit those. Only the occasional...

They nuzzle through the grass but mine don’t dig the huge furrows that I’ve seen traditional pigs create. I see them ripping up mouthfuls of grass and clover in the spring but not digging down to the roots. As you’re training them to you, may I suggest fig newtons as a treat (we call them Pig...

I love my kunekunes - they are pets. I do put them into a confined area at night with an attached shed which they use when it’s cold/raining (has a 3foot fence, so really only keeps them in). It’s filled with pine shavings. I’m in Texas so I can’t speak to extreme cold, but they’re happy as can...

Welcome from Texas! I have a little bit of everything: some goats, chickens, muscovies, Kunekunes, and a few sheep: I have Barbados ewes and a dorper/Kahtadin ram (Soon to be neutered once I know the ladies are pregnant!). I’m new to sheep in the last year, so learning a lot here.

Mine love fig Newton’s, too, as well as animal crackers, corn, sunflower seeds...they’ll even try to steal dog and chicken food if they get the chance!

Welcome from Texas!

Honestly, I don’t want/need to. The burs are an issue all by themselves. The Bermuda is about work: DH is fed up fighting the mowing (because of gopher holes, LGD digging, mild pig rooting, etc it’s gotten to be quite difficult. We bought a new Scag zero-turn with the “extra comfy seat” this...

I’ve done some additional research, and came across these two sites: https://www.noble.org/news/publications/ag-news-and-views/2014/november/herbicides-control-sandbur-infestation/ and https://aggie-horticulture.tamu.edu/plantanswers/turf/grassbur.html I try to avoid using...

Welcome! You sound like me - a little bit of everything! (Goats, sheep, pot belly, Kunekunes, chickens, muscovies, LGDs and cats!). So many wonderful, knowledgeable people here.

Thanks, @Baymule . I figured you’d have a suggestion, given that you have the same awesome sandy Texas soil that these burrs seem to love.

I FEEL YOUR PAIN! We are religious about removing shoes at the tile entry (and we boot-scrape them outside!), but those little F’ers still end up randomly in the carpet and then in our feet. There is a special place in hell for those things when they end up in the laundry and attach themselves...

This is an example of what is growing.

I’m in central Texas. I have about 3 acres around my house that is a mess of burrs, some Bermuda grass, and a little clover. Hubby mows down to 2” to try to keep everything suppressed, but the burrs seems to grow back the fastest. The burrs have been taking over and are getting so severe that...

Fabulous - thank you!

Newbie question: on a whim, I picked up a bag of Plotspike Oats and scattered the seed in my former chicken run (still enclosed so my goat/sheep/kune kune herd can’t get to it and WELL-FERTILIZED!). It is growing nicely and already about 3” tall. At what point do I let them in to eat it? I’ve...

Welcome from the USA (Texas). What kind of sheep and pigs do you raise? I have Kunekun pigs and Barbados sheep (with one Khatadin/dorper cross to keep it interesting!).

Welcome from Texas! I, too, have a menagerie just for the fun of it (no commercial intent). Glad to have you in our happy community.

Welcome! I’ve had Nigerian goats for a year and a half or so, and things I wish I’d known: -Purina wind and rain mineral: cheaper than Dumor goat mineral, my goats like it better, and they’ve done better on it. -patience: I have a couple that I swore would never warm up to me that now come...