Wehner Homestead

[Wehner Homestead]

That makes me think... @farmerjan want to work out a trade??? I’m sure we can both come up with some astronomical number for the amount of money that we both “sold” the other an animal for!

 

[Wehner Homestead]

Yesterday, DH worked on a design for goat hay feeders to minimize waste. He got the frame of the first one built. It still needs a floor and the wire panel attached. It’s designed to hold four beats of hay. (DS didn’t want to get off for the pics so he hid in it.) The back of the feeder is down in the pics.

Spoiled barn cat. Oscar.

Halo looking up at me expectantly.

Halo isn’t allowed on the furniture but she thinks the kids’ chairs are fair game. She also got a new duck toy that’s bigger than her!

 

[CntryBoy777]

Well, that just ain't right!!.....letting Oscar the cat on the furniture, but not sweet, beautiful Halo the dog.....my, my I would've never thought that of ya.....
I'll like to see the finished feeder....it looks good so far....

 

[greybeard]

Um, then what DOES change hands??


Unless there are ridiculously high cash prizes at cattle shows, I still don't get it. I guess the very wealthy have to spend their money somewhere.

Braggin rights, publicity, intangibles.
It's like TV reality shows.
Kardassians, with Cows.

Decades ago, the show circuit was different. The bulls and heifers that won produced the seed stock for an industry that fed the world. Nowadays, with the clubbies, it's more often than not, now a self fulfilling/self dependent sub culture of the cattle industry and what they produce is seed stock for more clubbies.
Go to any meat market or restaurant...you won't find "Certified Fluffy Cow beef" being advertised anywhere, and you won't find any on a burger at a high end eatery either.

It's like my niece's husband that went to college for about a decade to be some kind of highly specialized marine biologist..............when he got done, the only thing he was qualified to do and the only job he could get was teaching others to do the same thing.

But, UNlike my niece's husband's endeavors, there IS big $$ to be made in the fluffy cow fad.......on paper anyway.

 

[Mini Horses]

Well, I can ASSURE you that when I was in the mini horse business, $$$$$ actually changed hands!! I paid and I collected. Breedings were paid for & only mares acceptable to me were taken in for such. Usually had a waiting list. Yes, I sold stallions with reserved breedings sometimes.

One of my "best" deals was someone who bought, on contract, a young stallion from my Natl Chp halter stallion. Paid the $2500 down and never sent balance or replied further, so a forfeit of $$ & purchase. That was a lot of money to lose, IMO. The minis were a fun & profitable effort for many years.

Our bragging rights were show wins, and those of the offspring.

 

[Latestarter]

Kinda like the emperor's new clothes... Even if I had the money, I don't see myself playing those games...

 

[Wehner Homestead]

Well, that just ain't right!!.....letting Oscar the cat on the furniture, but not sweet, beautiful Halo the dog.....my, my I would've never thought that of ya.....
I'll like to see the finished feeder....it looks good so far....

DH doesn’t like the cat being in the house and rolls his eyes every time the kids let him in!

Halo couldn’t hurt this set of furniture but DH is convinced that I won’t want her on my furniture when I get a new set. I don’t think he realizes how much I love this dog!

The feeder is a trial run. I’ll keep y’all posted. He may change some measurements for the next one. We need a total of 8. Some with enough room for only two beats of hay.

 

[Latestarter]

What's a "beat" of hay? New term to me (not that that's all that unusual)... Been meaning to comment on Halo. She is simple a beautiful girl. Absolutely love her eyes and the looks she gives. You got a real winner there. And I hear ya about pets on the furniture... I mean I'm pretty sure we're all used to being coated in animal hair. As long as the animals aren't chewing or eating the furniture, no problems here either. I have a beach towel on 1 of my couches right now and Elf likes to climb up and crash there. Only reason for the towel is because he's a digger and often has very dirty paws.

 

[Bruce]

@Bruce it works like this: I have a pretty good heifer and you have a pretty good bull. We work out a deal to trade but the catch is that we both say we bought the new one for $100K and sold the other for $100K. Usually this doesn’t crop up in the same conversation so people think I’m selling 100K$ heifers and you are selling $100K bulls.

So the person who "bought" the $136K heifer "sold" a $136K animal to the seller of the heifer?

Kinda like the emperor's new clothes... Even if I had the money, I don't see myself playing those games...

Yeah, you need a tractor and a barn and ....

 

[greybeard]

What's a "beat" of hay

Same as a flake, stroke, slice, bat, section or fleck. It has no set in stone dimension or weight...it's size and volume is wholly dependent on how any particular baler is set up and how long the plunger stroke is.