One Fine Acre - 2023 4H Steer Project Update

[OneFineAcre]

Glad ya got em!
Fall is a bad time for them as they like to come out in the evening and find a warm spot... usually dusk and most of the time gravel, driveways or something like that.
DD was bit by a baby copperhead in Oct a few years back, Stepped right on it. Yep- full venom bite because they cannot control how much venom.
Sure hope Mikey or Angel was on that fenceline!

Glad you still got a mini vacation- not the Bahamas but at least a nice get-a-way. Where were you going in the Bahamas? I love Eleuthera (Caribbean side, not the Atlantic side LOL).

We had considered a cruise out of Baltimore to Grand BAhama, Nassau and Turks and Cacos
Great Wolf Lodge turned out to be a good choice
Went to Jamestown Settlement and Yorktown Battlefield too
We could go to Williamsburg 5 more times and not be bored

 

[OneFineAcre]

Good spotting and good shooting. I'm learning to like spiders, I just don't think I will ever like snakes.

I bought a 410 "snake charmer " from a friend a few years ago who needed some money just because I thought it was cool
This was the first time I actually got to use it to "charm" a snake

 

[babsbag]

We use shotguns to charm the rattlesnakes. Last time DH shot one the pieces went flying everywhere. Difinitely "overkill" but better than no kill. I use the shotgun so I don't miss.

Glad you got them. The coyotes have been horrible at my place the last few weeks. Love me a good LGD.

 

[OneFineAcre]

I definitely need another LGD
Was talking to someone tonight about a started dog same farm I got Angel from
Long story but the father passed away a few years ago and they aren't really breeding goats anymore
They only have 2 does and a buck and she mentioned they were
Thinking about getting the buck castrated because he belonged to their father
Buck is 6 years old and out of NC Promised Land Ram-Beau
So would you think about selling him?
And she said maybe.
I suspect this could be a pricey goat

 

[frustratedearthmother]

Hope it all works out, that would be exciting!

 

[Southern by choice]

I was just looking at this buck in some old archives... he is the pretty Cou Blanc right?

 

[OneFineAcre]

I was just looking at this buck in some old archives... he is the pretty Cou Blanc right?

Yep

 

[Hens and Roos]

Hope it works out for you ....goat math strikes again

 

[OneFineAcre]

Hope it works out for you ....goat math strikes again

Yeah
That might be tough for me
I saw what they were asking for some of there goats when they sold off most of the herd


I don't know if I could bring myself to pay that kind of money

We have bought a semen tank because we want to collect semen from some of ours.
The extension service in a neighboring county sponsors an event in Nov and a company comes in to collect semen

And I met this lady at Shelby show
Olde South Farm from Alabama that has a buck out of Ram-Beau and she has him on ice as they say
Probably more cost effective

 

[animalmom]

Need? Need? What's wrong with just want? I have three bucks, love each and every one of them, and they are good boys. Would I get another? In a heartbeat! Love my Nigi bucks even in full rut! Can't have too many handsome faces to choose from. And while they can be real love bugs and cuddle and are just darling, I keep in mind first and foremost that they are animals. Need? We don't need no stinkin' need!

Ah, I think I'm giving you my blessing to get another buck... post pictures, please and thank you.