C&D Farming..oh what a life!

[Duckfarmerpa1]

These mini pigs sound terribly inbred. Piss pocket? U hooked dinger? You say your mentors dealt with that all the time and either fixed the problem or ate him and that took care of the problem. I hope you can practice sound breeding and maybe not have to deal with that. For someone to sell you a pissy boar with a known genetic defect doesn't speak well of them. They need an old fashioned peach switch whipping.

Nooo, I asked the V’s on here about the piss pocket. They told me allll about the whole thing, and that they eat him. Our boar has it, but didn’t come from the farm that we bought the two pregnant pigs from. It’s just a flook of bad luck? Honestly, I want to get a new pig and be done with it. The people we bought him from, had no clue there even was an issue...which is why we drove over to the other pig farm with him in tow...so they could look at him, and assess the deal. They basically said the same thing as the V’s but thought breeding might be ok, since most of these pigs are not meant for breeding. We just have to find out how much this all costs. My vet hasn’t called back. I’m guessing she doesn’t deal with the issue, but I’ll try again on Monday!

 

[Mini Horses]

Wow I'm glad I live up north where there is less snow!
Why does the truck need 4 doors? That by definition will make it bigger.

My truck is a 4 door but, has a 4' short bed. I would sometimes like a larger bed but, in reality, I can always take my trailer. And, I have learned to use the space well. 15 bales of hay came home in it yesterday, tailgate down makes it happen.

I’ll be fine with sellling piglets.

We'll see...….

 

[Duckfarmerpa1]

My truck is a 4 door but, has a 4' short bed. I would sometimes like a larger bed but, in reality, I can always take my trailer. And, I have learned to use the space well. 15 bales of hay came home in it yesterday, tailgate down makes it happen.



We'll see...….

uh ohh...you might be right? But I certainly can’t keep all those little squirts!!

 

[rachels.haven]

Not sure it matters, but I vote you need two bucks (imo), unrelated is best for breeding purposes. Two sources for genetics and the playing field between the two of them is level. Otherwise you may wind up feeling sorry for the wether as bucks in rut are very lecherous creatures. Better (in my mind) for them to be equally disgusting. Although some people do keep a buck wether pair and it works fine, so what do I know?

 

[Duckfarmerpa1]

Ok, so, what a day! First more snow! Imagine that? Then, it turns out that my mini pig...that was supposed to be due to farrow any day...last week...doesnt even have her milk line yet!! We turned her on her side, felt for piglets, but I don’t know if I felt anything? I felt one hard spot...couldve been her tummy? The rest was pure fat!! So much for my ‘mini pig’!! No, I knew she was a ‘big girl’, after all, she’s been breed four times. But, why lie to me about when she is due? They had 7 pigs...they said 6 were pregnant...we wanted two with big litters...they gave us these two. So, she could’ve said..‘I’m not sure when she’s due?’ Now, I feel like they were hiding something? But, I don’t want to ask them anything because they said they would refer their business to us. I don’t want to ruffle feathers and mess that up...plus, I’m a whimp...no back-bone...I can already hear @Baymule yelling...’get one girl!’

Next thing..the milk machine is pure junk! Ugh! So, I have to return it and get a new one. @Jesusfreak101 showed me hers...it’s more pricey than I know Chris would want to spend! It was, I think $150 ish? I need a nice, reliable machine, but not that is needed for a ton of goats. It’s not like I want to use the milk for something. We need to milk Busty....and, now we’ll need to milk them both for weaning, right? So the kids can drink the milk from a bucket?

ok...next thing...calling all good stripper names!!! Yep, you read that right! You see, Chris wants to name the goats with strippers names. He is not a guy who has seen many strippers. He doesn’t swear..ever!! He’s actually shy..but very stubborn! Extremely funny! Anyways... 25 years ago he and some friends went to this club around here. The owner is actually famous. Busty Hart. She smashes beer cans and watermelon with her... nice gal, right? Anyways...someone said it was Chris’s birthday...so, they all...took a giant picture surr him. Her boobs are like his crown! Ugh! Anyways...he is like a local legen because of this...yes, it’s really THAT boring around here! I mean, those girls were gross!! And he can’t stand strippers for that reason...but he thinks it’s funny. Anyways...back to the names. We’ve got Busty...Stormy and now Sugar. I need 4 more names? I even went online, many times...wrote down lists...he’s kind of picky about his stripper names!! I’d rather not have it be too complicated or long. He’d rather it not be too cheesy. I said Candy, Bambi, Roxy, Trixie, Brandi, Sasha, Lacy...CoCo, Honey... these goats have been alive since 1/31! And the one is from a farm , they didn’t give her a name... Here are some pictures for inspiration!! The one Pygmy with the small white spot on her head is crazy! The brown kid is my baby girl, and the other Pygmy is a total cuddler!! The brown doe is just sooo sweet and loves to go on looong walks and explore!

ok...let’s see if we can finally name these girls??

 

[Bruce]

Gypsy - for Gypsy Rose Lee? She was quite the famous stripper way back when stripping was a bit of an art form.

 

[Duckfarmerpa1]

Gypsy - for Gypsy Rose Lee? She was quite the famous stripper way back when stripping was a bit of an art form.

She could be the Pygmy with eye stripe... I like it!! Now we have to see if he likes it, but I don’t care anymore..they need names!!

 

[Duckfarmerpa1]

So, I named the brown doe Honey, to go along with her kid, Sugar.

on another note, our one garage door is frozen shut with about 4” of solid ice. the garbage truck is in there for our renters and tomorrow is garbage day. Last time we left the dump truck outside, because the concrete has a tiny slope and it froze last year with 6” of ice. But, when we left it out a few weeks ago it filled up with so much snow, we ended up paying at least $10-15 to dump snow at the landfill...and by now, you all know Chris won’t stand for that! So now, we’ve got a stuck truck...hoping it warms up a ton..doubt that much! He can take another truck, but it’s always such a mess to transafer yucky garbage. I think he should’ve just paid the extra for the snow? Nah...not Chris!!

 

[Bruce]

Blowtorch the ice!!

 

[Duckfarmerpa1]

Blowtorch the ice!!

i was thinking of that too!! I’ll see what he says....it’s still stuck now too...ugh!