Changing goals and speed

[CntryBoy777]

How exciting!!....especially for the young'uns to have their own farm animals....hope they enjoy them and ya never know...they may just grow on ya too.....

 

[AClark]

Oh I'm not gonna lie, the little lambs are cute and I like them. I just know they'll grow into big sheep and won't be cute and cuddly anymore. Maybe her's will, he's been a bottle baby and they all come right up like I"m going to feed them, and to be cuddled and pet, then go attack my poor momma goats for food, lol.

 

[Baymule]

I enjoy my sheep. I have a wether destined for freezer camp and he is so friendly and sweet. Your daughter will have a wonderful pet that wants to be loved on.

 

[greybeard]

not sure I have any interest in raising "meadow maggots".

That's what they were called in W. Texas too...'pasture maggots'.
All you could see was the top 1/2 big white blobs with a dark nose bobbing up and down in the Klien and Bluestem looked like big maggots from the road. You had to be really careful at night as there were forever bunches of em out on the highway..they were way worse than deer south of San Angelo out near Wall, Vancourt and Eldorado.

 

[AClark]

Must be a western term, that's what we called them back home. Most were like that too, dark headed wool sheep. These are hair sheep, but all the same.
My girls are nursing them when I'm not there now. I left them 12 hours, where the does should have had very full udders, and they were squishy and empty, so I know they are nursing them on the sly now. I don't think they've really "adopted" them, as all 4 will nurse the same doe, but they do switch back and forth between does. Their little bellies are full and they are growing like crazy. It only took about 3 days for the does to take to the lambs, so I can't complain.

 

[AClark]

Ok, went and picked up our pigs today. Total live weight was 170 (for both, small pigs) return was 121 lbs. Not bad. My freezer is so full I had to remove the shelves. I need a bigger freezer. This is a big chest freezer, and I have a smaller standing one next to it that is equally full.

That said, this is packaged a little weird. It's all in butcher paper, no problems there, but WTH - I have some marked "kidneys" and one marked "fries". I'm assuming they mean the same thing as when you say calf fries, and that I have a package with testicles in it?!

Not sure what to do with pig testicles here...other than feeding them, and the kidneys, to my dogs.

 

[CntryBoy777]

Some people do eat them, but I would do the same thing as you....I've never been that hungry to find out what they taste like....

 

[AClark]

Yeah I don't think I'm about to find out any time soon. I have no problem with calf fries, but from a pig? Pass!

 

[Bruce]

Um, what would be the difference? Just a different animal right?

 

[Baymule]

I've had "Rocky Mountain Oysters" before and there wasn't a lot of taste to them. Meh.

I always get the offal from animals we take to slaughter. I can it with 1/2 cup COOKED rice in quart jars for the dogs. They love it!