A Jesusfreaks tales of farm life with soon to be Six kids

[farmerjan]

There are a few people that have trained brahma cattle to ride. And a friend used to sit on her brown swiss. Also saw a video about a girl that trained her steer to trail ride. Just don't do it too young or for too long so it doesn't cause any damage to the calf's developing backbone. Like not "riding a young horse"....We used to slip off the porch in Vt as a kid onto the neighbors holstein heifers he pastured there.... go bucking across the field til we fell off.....

 

[Jesusfreak101]

1200 for a kune kune piglet so in 5he wrong business thats insanity.

 

[Jesusfreak101]

Oh my goodness just calculated what I want to order from baker creek seeds and its 300 something dollars ouch dh won't be happy lol. I am spliting fall and spring plants to make it less painful. And looking at limiting it to only certian things. Sigh i hate limiting lol. I am animal and plant crazy shopping lady i tell my husband at least it's useful and not shoes or purse I never use or worse yet cloths i hate cloths shopping. any ways lots of debating going on i am thinking and day dreaming we see what goes on bit can't wait till we move so i can make and do what we like with our land. Dh is on a load he won't be back till late so early bed time kids moohaha so i can get some much needed sleep.

 

[GardnerHomestead]

9 days to go before show time.

We have the exact same incubator... Ive not had much luck with mine. only on my second hatch but it seems the front two rows arent heating up like they should. i have two external thermometers and the temps vary from one side to the other. annoying. have you had good hatch rates with it?

 

[Jesusfreak101]

Mine haven't been that bad my first hatch this year sucked more because of they came in to laying and had not gotten the deed done. I hatch 8 chicks, six gosling and or so ducklings. Now no have 31 eggs left in there out of the original 44 so not to bad yet. We see who all hatches but when i candle all looked great. I think the egg Turner helps. I did i have one before this one the same kind and it worked fine. But that one did die after that first year honestly i would love a different brand but they get so expeinsive. I debate about it every time i look at them. I plan to get possible 3 more incubators to habe four going i also thought about buying a large cabinet incubator but a 1000 is a bit much for us in expensices when we trying to move so i 'll behave for now.

 

[GardnerHomestead]

Mine haven't been that bad my first hatch this year sucked more because of they came in to laying and had not gotten the deed done. I hatch 8 chicks, six gosling and or so ducklings. Now no have 31 eggs left in there out of the original 44 so not to bad yet. We see who all hatches but when i candle all looked great. I think the egg Turner helps. I did i have one before this one the same kind and it worked fine. But that one did die after that first year honestly i would love a different brand but they get so expeinsive. I debate about it every time i look at them. I plan to get possible 3 more incubators to habe four going i also thought about buying a large cabinet incubator but a 1000 is a bit much for us in expensices when we trying to move so i 'll behave for now.

i understand that. i would like a brisnea but shouldnt spend that much on it right now. someday.... i got 8/16 this last time. and when i candled all the eggs in the first row werent developing right so i removed them i go into lock down tonight. hoping for a better outcome this time. hope yours is successful too!

 

[Jesusfreak101]

Yeah that's frustrating. The kids kept unplugging ours last time as well so that didn't help anything.

 

[Bruce]

1200 for a kune kune piglet so in 5he wrong business thats insanity.

Only worth $1,200 if someone is dumb enough to pay it. Sounds like the alpaca craze a few years back. All fell apart when they ran out of people willing to pay stupid high prices for a young alpacas to raise and breed so they could sell the young to others as dumb as them wanting to do the same thing and get "rich".

Yeah that's frustrating. The kids kept unplugging ours last time as well so that didn't help anything.

HOPEFULLY they have been trained out of that? Why would they unplug it??

 

[Jesusfreak101]

Because he a bratty two year old who doesnt understand and yeah spankings happen. And yes people are that dumb on alot of things it one reason i debated about the kune kunes they normally run for 400 and thats pricy for me as the gueinne hogs are 50-70 it's one of those things pretty pig expensive not so pretty but same personality not as pricey mmm lol

 

[Jesusfreak101]

Took a few days for her to relax about the bunnies being out of cages but she leaves them alone now days . Hard to see in pictures but this is her relaxed pose lol
Other news i have four or five new apple seedlings or saplings mmm... either way the grew lol. One of the banana trees is growing bananas. Sitting (yes i am being lazy) outside just enjoy it holding baby.