Checking in from Wyoming

[samssimonsays]

Welcome from Northern Minnesota!

 

[Bruce]

Okay, I managed to get an avatar but I can't post photos. Is that because I don't have enough posts, like on BYC? All I get is a brown box that asks for the URL, and since they are photos that live in my photo folder on my computer there is no URL - at least that I can figure out. I'm gonna go do a little investigating in the FAQ again.

Under the posting box are 3 buttons
Post Reply (obvious)
Upload a File (click this one to post a photo from your computer)
More Options (more options i.e. Preview)

Oh, and if you haven't tried it yet +Quote is the multiquote feature. Different than BYC in that here if you've hit that button there is another button under the posting box to add the multis to your reply. You can choose which ones to put in your post (in case you change your mind) or add them all then write what you want for each one.

 

[Blooie]

Thanks, Bruce. I figured out the "quote" thing right off the bat. But silly me, I thought clicking on the photo icon was the way to add photos. So bear with me while I try your explanation -

 

[Blooie]

Whoa.....um, that's really big!

 

[Bunnylady]

But . . . a view that gorgeous couldn't really be appreciated any smaller.

 

[Pastor Dave]

But now we live on a corner lot in town, so I'll be sticking with chickens. Livestock IS legal in town - folks here have horses, mules, donkeys, sheep, goats, cows - but I think our lot is just to small to keep them comfortably for them, and for me. The people right behind me have horses and the folks across the street have cows, so I live my "farm" dream vicariously through them. No limit on the number of chickens I can have, and no restrictions on roosters either.

Greetings from the Hoosier state!
I have Meat rabbits. Short history: Grew up on a farm, went to college, moved married, and became a full-time pastor with 2 sons.
Too many years and details in between could write a book. Twenty years later, live on church property in a parsonage and have 4 does, two bucks, and meat pens in the adjacent shed.

I grow my own grass hay on the little acre behind the shed. My neighbor and congregational member bales mine, and I swap work for him; mostly baling hay and straw. Then he gives me the straw I need.

Rabbits have never been declared agricultural livestock. They are pets and sometimes considered exotics to the veterinarians, so can have them in city limits if no one complains of a smell, etc.
They make virtually no noise. I have helped urban ministries set up hutches in city limits where their members clean out the pellets and urine into their gardens or compost. The pellets do not need time to reduce acidity, so can go from animal to plant without burning.

Maybe you have space in town along with your chickens. I enjoy working with them, and hope my son's get more involved as they get older; one is 7 and the other is 3-1/2.

I butcher and process. I also grind and make sausage and summer sausage.
We eat as much as we want and others buy some off me too. It is good small-scale farming.

Like the chickens, goats, and other herds on here, they get into your blood.

Nice to meet you. Enjoy the site!

 

[Bruce]

Whoa.....um, that's really big!

Which option for inclusion did you use?

And like @Bunnylady said, NICE picture!

 

[Latestarter]

Wow, what a sweet view! Since you said you now live in town, I'd have to guess it's not one you get to look at daily, but absolutely love that kind of country. Thanks for sharing the pic.

 

[Blooie]

I took this on our way home from Walmart, with just a slight detour! The town I live in is very small, just about 600 people, and we are in a basin between the Big Horn Mountains to our east, the Pryor Mountains just north, the Absaroka and the Beartooths to our west. We are about 90 miles from Yellowstone Park.