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I'd take those kisses! Too cute!
Jodief100--- random stuff and BIG news
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autumnprairie
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20kidsonhill
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I need an electric net for my yard.
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jodief100
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Rolls- do you recognize the beautiful face on the little while girl?
20kids- the net is very handy, we have been able to utilize 3 x as much pasture as we would without it. It really helps with rotations.
I was out in the "open yearlings" pen last night. These are girls that are a year old this spring and weren't big enough to be bred last fall. I noticed Trouble has an udder, a very nice one. I had to lute that little tart twice this fall when she kept getting out. I guess I missed the last time. She is too far along for lute now so I just cross my fingers and hope for the best. She is about 70 lbs now. 70 lbs and 8 months is considered "big enough" for kikos but that is at breeding! At least I am pretty sure it is Bullet she is bred to, he throws smaller kids. I left her out with the yearlings since they get less feed. As long as the warm weather holds up she can stay out there.
20kids- the net is very handy, we have been able to utilize 3 x as much pasture as we would without it. It really helps with rotations.
I was out in the "open yearlings" pen last night. These are girls that are a year old this spring and weren't big enough to be bred last fall. I noticed Trouble has an udder, a very nice one. I had to lute that little tart twice this fall when she kept getting out. I guess I missed the last time. She is too far along for lute now so I just cross my fingers and hope for the best. She is about 70 lbs now. 70 lbs and 8 months is considered "big enough" for kikos but that is at breeding! At least I am pretty sure it is Bullet she is bred to, he throws smaller kids. I left her out with the yearlings since they get less feed. As long as the warm weather holds up she can stay out there.
elevan
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Sounds like Trouble has lived up to her name. 
that she kids easily and without issue.
that she kids easily and without issue.- Thread starter
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jodief100
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After a month of warm, 50-70 degree days, I decided to take down all the heated buckets and put away the warming barrel this last weekend. Last night it freezes. Not bad, around 30 degrees, the water only had a very thin layer which I broke through by pushing on it slightly. Spring in the midwest at its finest! It will probably snow on opening day again.
Chickens have found all new places to lay since I found thier stash. Now that I know they are laying again I am looking harder. It is like Easter morning every night.... 2 blue ones under the backhow, a pink one in the scale, 3 brown ones under the tarp with the deck mower and a green one under the trailer......... never the same twice.
Chicks and kids are all growing well. I don't think 'Nilla got bred and I don't want to have a solo goat kid in September. I am not sure if I should give her another season or not. She is small and has limped on her hind end every since last summer. I never did find out what happened, I treated for EVERYTHING but ever since she swings her back side wierd and her feet go to the inside of her step. Were she a person I would say she took a blow to the head but I don't think that would have any effect on a goat.
I am really ticked off at the local TS.
I found out they were selling "leftover" chicks every week to someone for $0.50 each. I wasn't selling any birds because he could undercut my prices by $2 and that is more than my margin. So I talked to the manager at TS and he agreed to cut me in on the deal. He told me I had to wait until Saturdays to pick them up. So every Saturday for three weeks I go to TS and am told "we sold them all, no leftovers this week" I find out it was because they were selling all of them to the other guy on Friday morning, at $0.50 each. So last Friday I go in at 10:30 count 128 birds remaining and am told, "no everyone has to wait until Saturday". I sit in the parking lot and wait. Less than two hours later Mr. "you can't beat my prices" walks out with two boxes of chicks. 
So they get shipments in on Mondays and Wednesdays and sell all thier chicks at a steep discount on Friday. That means TS has no chicks to sell at full price all weekend and I loose business because I can't compete with someone getting an exclusive deal like that. I doesn't make any sense, if I loose business, TS looses business. Do they not understand that? So the local TS got a nasty gram from me. If they don't contact me with an acceptable arrangement I am writing corporate. If that doesn't fix it, I get out of the started hen business and start shopping at Southern States. I told them as much in the letter. We have a tax exempt account with TS so they can look up our expenditures and see we have spent over $10,000 in that store since it opened less than three years ago. If that doesn't make me a customer worth not screwing over I have no idea what would. I don't even care if "fixing it" means no one gets discounts, at least then it is a level playing field. Hubby thinks they are going to send me a 10% off coupon and a
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Knee hurts worse now than it has all weekend. It is a "good" hurt becasue it is a healign hurt but it still sucks. I keep reminding myself that 80 years ago or in some other parts of the world today, this could have been fatal. Need to remind myself how lucky I am sometimes.
Chickens have found all new places to lay since I found thier stash. Now that I know they are laying again I am looking harder. It is like Easter morning every night.... 2 blue ones under the backhow, a pink one in the scale, 3 brown ones under the tarp with the deck mower and a green one under the trailer......... never the same twice.
Chicks and kids are all growing well. I don't think 'Nilla got bred and I don't want to have a solo goat kid in September. I am not sure if I should give her another season or not. She is small and has limped on her hind end every since last summer. I never did find out what happened, I treated for EVERYTHING but ever since she swings her back side wierd and her feet go to the inside of her step. Were she a person I would say she took a blow to the head but I don't think that would have any effect on a goat.
I am really ticked off at the local TS.
I found out they were selling "leftover" chicks every week to someone for $0.50 each. I wasn't selling any birds because he could undercut my prices by $2 and that is more than my margin. So I talked to the manager at TS and he agreed to cut me in on the deal. He told me I had to wait until Saturdays to pick them up. So every Saturday for three weeks I go to TS and am told "we sold them all, no leftovers this week" I find out it was because they were selling all of them to the other guy on Friday morning, at $0.50 each. So last Friday I go in at 10:30 count 128 birds remaining and am told, "no everyone has to wait until Saturday". I sit in the parking lot and wait. Less than two hours later Mr. "you can't beat my prices" walks out with two boxes of chicks. So they get shipments in on Mondays and Wednesdays and sell all thier chicks at a steep discount on Friday. That means TS has no chicks to sell at full price all weekend and I loose business because I can't compete with someone getting an exclusive deal like that. I doesn't make any sense, if I loose business, TS looses business. Do they not understand that? So the local TS got a nasty gram from me. If they don't contact me with an acceptable arrangement I am writing corporate. If that doesn't fix it, I get out of the started hen business and start shopping at Southern States. I told them as much in the letter. We have a tax exempt account with TS so they can look up our expenditures and see we have spent over $10,000 in that store since it opened less than three years ago. If that doesn't make me a customer worth not screwing over I have no idea what would. I don't even care if "fixing it" means no one gets discounts, at least then it is a level playing field. Hubby thinks they are going to send me a 10% off coupon and a
.Knee hurts worse now than it has all weekend. It is a "good" hurt becasue it is a healign hurt but it still sucks. I keep reminding myself that 80 years ago or in some other parts of the world today, this could have been fatal. Need to remind myself how lucky I am sometimes.
Roll farms
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I gave up being mad at feed stores for selling chicks / birds cheaper than I can. We have 3 of them close by....I can't compete....They don't want to be stuck w/ a bunch of extra chicks any more than I do, and trust me, I've seen the invoices, they DO take a big loss on those chicks they mark down, but they can't keep them forever.
I can't even count on my so-called customers to show up and take chicks they say they will. My incubators are off.
I can't even count on my so-called customers to show up and take chicks they say they will. My incubators are off.
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jodief100
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Trouble kidded! A boy and a girl. They are tiny. I had no idea she was this close. We had to bring her into the barn from the front field. Me riding in the back of the pickup- no topper. I was holding onto Trouble for dear life and sliding all over. I wound up on my back with her horns in my face, but I held on! Trouble is enjoying her luxury accommodations and 3 course meal (Fresh water, alfalfa hay and grain).
Babies are doing great! They were dry with full bellies when I found them. I went out to feed the girls, Trouble was away from the group and making noise. She was hesitant to come into the feeding area. So I checked her hiney, it was wet and dirty but I couldn't tell anything for sure, it was dark. So I sent hubby back to the house for the big flashlight. When Trouble finished eating she ran like a rocket back to her spot down the hill. I knew she babies down there at that point.
Babies are doing great! They were dry with full bellies when I found them. I went out to feed the girls, Trouble was away from the group and making noise. She was hesitant to come into the feeding area. So I checked her hiney, it was wet and dirty but I couldn't tell anything for sure, it was dark. So I sent hubby back to the house for the big flashlight. When Trouble finished eating she ran like a rocket back to her spot down the hill. I knew she babies down there at that point.
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No wonder you call her trouble....
Congrats.
Congrats.
autumnprairie
Owned by the Rotten Heifers
congrats 
