The journey into the abyss of no return

SageHill

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What's that saying, when it rains it pours no matter what it is. Scratch what I said about going to 165 acres, make that 185 acres. The property that burnt with the campers on it came up for sale also and it's next door to the arsehole rich neighbor who tried to buy it, but they won't sell it to him. He knows I will possibly buy it and told me I better not buy it, welp suck it fker.
Keep this up - you're slowly becoming a Yellowstone (based on the tv show - and I know you don't watch tv) just let us all know where the train station will be! ;) :lol:
 

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Smiling piglets have a trap set up for them, starting tomorrow it's weaning time. Got an off shoot pen set up where only they can fit through to get to, feed them daily for a few days till trusting enough and close the door behind them.
When I was raising feeder pigs, I was training them to go through a smaller opening that the sows couldn't fit through... up the ramp and on the back of the old 2 ton flat bed with racks, truck... Fed them up on the truck for about 2 weeks... took them a couple days to learn that the feed up the ramp was a "wonderful" thing... I would come out the door and they would hear/see me, and in a week were all on the back of the truck waiting to get fed. Come feeder pig sale day, 5 minute time to load 10-20-30 pigs... clean clothes, no sweat, and off to the sale we would go... they were eating good, and the sows were getting tired of them... I had up to 12 or so sows that would pig twice a year or so...I would stagger their breedings to have pigs to sell most months... NO pigs in Jan/Feb here due to the cold unpredictable weather... Dec pigs were big enough to manage to burrow into hay etc to help to keep warm, and were good sized at 12-14 weeks to sell in the spring to people wanting to raise up a pig or 2 to butcher in Nov... Thanksgiving was the traditional butcher time here in this area of Va..... No one does it much anymore...

I miss those days...
 

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You can probably get a better price private sale, not to mention the auction fees and having to load them up. Private sale, if you have to deliver, you can charge for it. I don't know of anyone around here that raises feeder pigs. I found a guy several counties away that raises Herford hogs, wants $200 each for what used to be a $30 pig.
 

fuzzi

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Now picture this, her from Renton WA (yeah born and raised next to Seattle, WA of 34 years) now (39) is cutting heads off of roosters, shooting and skinning game, sometimes with me skinning a deer wrenching on her Jeep (with me double checking) surviving Montana and putting up with my ways as a combat vet.
The kicker, this land was bought in eBay and we met on a dating app 7 years ago.View attachment 120578
eBay is the place for good deals, but it looks like you got an even greater find on that app.

I'm happy for you.
:love
 

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