Latestarter's ramblings/musings/gripes and grumbles.

[Goat Whisperer]

That's a nice looking doe
Nice rump
Her head is in the feeder but you can tell she has a nice level back too
Good job

I thought the same thing when I saw the pic earlier today!

 

[Goat Whisperer]

Fire ants are just awful. I always have a bottle of permethrins spray handy. Sometimes a goat will step in a mound and it's terrible

A while back ago I was picking up some alfalfa and orchard bales from our hay supplier. Everyone there who doesn't know me thinks I'm feeding horses. They are shocked when I say I'm feeding goats. Their faces are literally go like this ->
I tell them the dairy goats specialty is to throw the nicest, most expensive hay on the ground and waste it.

But last time I was there, they had an Alfalfa bale that broke open. The asked if I wanted it… I said heck yeah. A whole $13 value
But it was almost 60# of beautiful alfalfa hay!

 

[Baymule]

Pork for the freezer Joe! In your town too!

https://easttexas.craigslist.org/grd/d/pigs-for-sell/6321001687.html

 

[frustratedearthmother]

For $100 dollars each I'd get 'em in a heartbeat! Good lookin' pork on the hoof there. Shame my freezer is full...

 

[Baymule]

Our freezer is full too, but we're getting a new one today. We are buying half a beef from a friend in October.

 

[Bruce]

He could probably get one of THOSE home, too short a drive for a jumper

 

[farmerjan]

That's a giveaway price for hogs that have been fed the way they have for show. Not any "scraps" in the feed either so not alot of soft fat on them. I'd get them in a heartbeat, get them worked up, cure the hams, bacons, jowls, even make canadian bacon out of some of the tenderloin, get it vacuum packed and be set for a couple of years. No joke. And I raised Hamps and they make a decent butcher hog. Maybe not quite as nice as a berkshire, but still very nice. We had hamps, durocs, and berks.

 

[babsbag]

dang. I have to pay 50-75 for piglets. That's a steal of a deal.

 

[Latestarter]

Can't do anything else involving spending money at the moment. HO insurance (~$1800) and property tax (~$1600) time has arrived to be quickly followed by vehicle registrations, holidays and the like. Spending now will have to wait until spring I'm afraid. I won't transport another animal in my existing trailer. That trailer is now for moving non-living things only. Come spring I'll look for a used livestock trailer. Life would be so much easier if I had money... just sayin'

 

[greybeard]

Life would be so much easier if I had money... just sayin'

Maybe.. I've had it and not had it and farm life isn't easy either way..