Mamaboid
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A half a beef and 12 gallons of milk for a life......sounds like a wonderful deal to me. You done good.
77Herford Farm Zoo Journal Moving
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ThreeBoysChicks
Loving the herd life
That is awesome. Sounds like the person you purchased here from can most likely really use the meat and milk.
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77Herford
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Yeah, I didn't want to mention it but his kids are a bit thin. They aren't malnourish, I don't think at least but they have been on hard times.ThreeBoysChicks said:
On a slightly happier note, I decided to wash the poor cow. She wasn't very keen on the idea of a bath and fought me for the first twenty minutes until I really started to scrub, then it was as if she was like " Hey this feels good". I even got inspired and cleaned and clipped her hooves. The hooves were a mess and looong. She almost looks like a new cow now but still a few hundred pounds under weight.
She is a brownish red color with bits of white splashed on her hind quarters. I would put her height closer to that of a Hereford but the disposition of a dairy cow mostly. When she did produce milk in the past her former owner said she averaged around 2 gallons a day during peak production. I doubt this but we'll see.
ThreeBoysChicks
Loving the herd life
So you need to post a now picture and another one in 90 days. Come on you can do....
autumnprairie
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PLEASEEEEEEEEE?ThreeBoysChicks said:
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77Herford
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Got a severe thunderstorm rolling through. We need the rain so I'm fine with it. I'm glad I moved the Sheep to another pasture with a bigger shelter.
Goats are wisely hidding in their shelter this evening as the thunder booms.
Goats are wisely hidding in their shelter this evening as the thunder booms.
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You ever wonder what that thump is in the middle of the night and can never explain it. Well I went out to find a couple city Pidgeons unconscous by the side of the porch. They are alive and in an old Parrot cage resting.
Royd Wood
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If I was Noah and needed to build an ark, then I'd just build it at your place and the animals can come aboard 2 by 2.77Herford said:
There's more goings on at your farm in a single day than a whole year at my place
I take it City pidgeons are skinny and not worth making into a pie ? ? ?
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Royd Wood said:If I was Noah and needed to build an ark, then I'd just build it at your place and the animals can come aboard 2 by 2.77Herford said:
There's more goings on at your farm in a single day than a whole year at my place
I take it City pidgeons are skinny and not worth making into a pie ? ? ?
Those city Pidgeons are pretty but dumb. I do like their song but I get that with my Mourning Dove's. The Pidgeons seem fine besides their irregular flight pattern, which was probably off by the sudden thunderstorm and high gusts of wind. I let them go this morning and they flew off just fine.
Had some more lambs this morning and a couple of calves.
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Don't tell Royd but I found a little Dun bull calf this afternoon in the pasture. His mother was gently cleaning him off as he took some of his first gulps of milk. His mama is a Dun as well and one of the bigger cow's in the my herd of Galloways.
Got some baby chickens hatched under their White Orpington mother. I allowed her to hatch six, which I've found a good number. Some hens can handle many more and some are useless when it comes to mothering unless theres just one or two chicks, lol.
My White Silkie super mom is sitting on a mix of Black Australorps, Buff Orpington, Salmon Faverolle and Dark Brahma's. For her size she can keep an eye on alot of chicks. Of course I keep her in a seperate pen when she's sitting and raising the chicks.
I will be gettin other eggs under broody hens soon as the season for selling them approachs.
Got some baby chickens hatched under their White Orpington mother. I allowed her to hatch six, which I've found a good number. Some hens can handle many more and some are useless when it comes to mothering unless theres just one or two chicks, lol.
My White Silkie super mom is sitting on a mix of Black Australorps, Buff Orpington, Salmon Faverolle and Dark Brahma's. For her size she can keep an eye on alot of chicks. Of course I keep her in a seperate pen when she's sitting and raising the chicks.
I will be gettin other eggs under broody hens soon as the season for selling them approachs.
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