Teresa & Mike CHS - Our journal

[RollingAcres]

That sounds good. I must confess that I've never made the "sauce" for stroganoff from scratch. We always sautee the onions, mushrooms and garlic, add grilled beef. Up until that part is homemade then the next part is jarred gravy .

 

[Mike CHS]

When I make a white sauce, all I use is white wine to simmer and then add room temperature sour cream as the thickener but I use more for the white than I do in the red because of the tomato paste. I actually like the red sauce better.

 

[farmerjan]

Just a note @Senile_Texas_Aggie .... they have been offering "sexed semen" for dairy cattle for years. It is also available for beef cattle, and I'm thinking that it is available for other breeds of animals.... I do know that you can breed hogs and goats artificial (AI). So many dairies used "female sexed semen", that we had a glut of replacement dairy heifers, and it caused prices to really drop. There are beef farmers that are specifically using "male sexed semen" so that they get more bull calves, as steers sell for more as feeders, and so if you are not trying to raise any replacement beef heifers, you really want a bull calf. It is known as a "terminal" breeding since the resulting calf will be going to be raised strictly for beef production.

 

[Mike CHS]

Our main sales of meat is the rams so we don't mind them being born.

 

[AmberLops]

Mr. @Mike CHS,

Have you read in the news recently that researchers have figured out a way to separate male sperm from female sperm fairly reliably and (hopefully) inexpensively? They used mice sperm for their test but saw applications in farm animals as quite feasible. Just think, if you wanted 4-5 ewes for every ram, you could do that. Miss @farmerjan could do the same for her dairy cows. Even Miss @AmberLops could do so for her rabbits. And yes, it could be applied to humans as well.

Senile Texas Aggie

Interesting! I could get a whole litter of does...
Any chance they can tell the colors? ha ha!

 

[Mike CHS]

Teresa spent a couple of hours rearranging the shed so we could put the two freezers out there side by side. We ought the new freezer sight unseen and just 'assumed' they would be similar sizes. When the delivery drivers took out the broken freezer and sat the new one in front of the spot, it was pretty sure the new one was 6" too tall to fit in the slot. Fortunately they were able to put it in the spot where the other one was originally but the second picture shows where we wanted to put it.

 

[Senile_Texas_Aggie]

Interesting! I could get a whole litter of does...
Any chance they can tell the colors? ha ha!

Miss @AmberLops,

The article didn't mention that, but I suppose you could select the sperm to be sorted from a male that had or carried the desirable colors. Here is a link to the article:
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/worl...-couples-to-choose-ivf-boy-or-girl/ar-AAFNH3O

Miss @farmerjan,

I was not aware that there were already methods to select the desired sex for a cow. Interesting.

Senile Texas Aggie

 

[CntryBoy777]

Ain't it just amazing the difference 6" can make?....it looks like it should serve ya well........bet it will look much better when it is full....

 

[Baymule]

We have 2 freezers too. I need to get them cleaned out and organized so we can take lambs to slaughter.

 

[Mike CHS]

Our other one out there is the same cf which is why we assumed they would be the same size. The new one is just narrower so taller. Our third freezer is a chest type but it's on the porch.