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I'm late to the party, but had a question about dairy sheep prices. I was looking at some East Lucerne from a sheep dairy in the area. The owner quoted me a "few thousand" for a bred ewe, and $500 + for a lamb ewe. I realize that prices vary by breeding quality, cost of living, etc. But that...

I currently have two cockerels that are half Cornish X, the result of the summer's last batch of Cornish X Roos chasing the Maran hen around. I'd been busy and didn't get around to slaughtering the Cornish X Roos until they were around 12 weeks. It seems that the freakish growth curve also...

It was my first year raising turkeys, so they got a tad out of hand, LOL. Dressed weight was 41 pounds. He was a BBB Tom. Tasted great! I still have half of him left to cook for Christmas, plus I cut a couple pounds of scraps off the carcass to put in the meat grinder!

I dispatched two of our enormous BBB toms - one for us and one for a friend. They dressed out at about 35 pounds. Friend asked me if I could butterfly theirs for them. I remember trying this on a similarly gigantic turkey last year and getting grumpy and finally cutting it for parts like a...

Can I hijack this thread to ask HOW you grab them? I attempted to wrestle one of our 5 BB toms onto a bathroom scale last night to get a live weight. (trying to see if a turkey frier would be big enough to scald them in) I couldn't lift him, and got hit hard in the face by a flapping wing...

How close are you to Winchester, va? I might be able to help you. I do my own chickens. I think there is a processor in the Front Royal area, too.

I had trouble finding the time to process my last batch of Cornish X, and they got past 12 weeks. They were all male, so the chicks cost me about $2.50 each. I normally get straight run, but the feed store had ordered all males for another customer and I got part of that order. The "runt"...

I'll see if I can get a good picture. The light is so bad in the barn. Those Cornish x Roos (now in freezer camp), would not leave the laying hens alone. One roo actually had a stroke or something chasing a hen and I had to butcher him at 9 at night. IIRC, they were over 12 weeks when I...

I think i have chicks that are half Cornish X But I thought that wasn't possible because they're too heavy to breed naturally. My laying hen recently hatched out 4 chicks. They've feathered out white, are growing freakishly fast, and have that walking like they have "corners" gait. I can...

I have 5 BB Toms that are 4 months old. Don't know their weight, because, well, I'm afraid of getting pecked to death trying to weigh one . They're large and getting aggressive towards each other. One took a large chunk of skin off another's shoulder the other day. Should I just dispatch them...

I think a scalpel blade would be ideal. The farmers I sometimes get together with to process chickens usually use razor blades for the throat slitting part.

I butchered two young mixed breed Roos last night. Didn't want extra mouths to feed with the winter coming on, and they were beginning to get into things and be pests. I got most of the way through plucking one roo when I noticed tickling on my arm. I looked down and saw some tiny, light...

I've been wondering about this. I have 5 BB turkeys that all turned out to be toms. I don't know how much they weigh, but they're huge. And I reckon they'll be really huge by November. I usually do my own processing. But this last batch of CX roosters that I let go to 12+ weeks gave me a...

I have 5 three month old BB toms that are living in an empty horse stall. The stall has a couple pieces of blue bailing twine hanging down that were holding horse water buckets. I've noticed the turkeys grabbing the strands of twine and pulling on them like they're the ribbons on a May Pole...

What about rice bran pellets? I use that for my old Percheron gelding on the advice of the vet. High fat, lower carb. It is expensive and not available in all areas, though.

What sweet pictures! From reading some of these stories, it seems like people don't realize that a stud is a stud. Doesn't matter if it is a mini or not. I refused to consider a stallion when I was looking for the minis, and people acted like I was being weird. I just didn't want that layer...

I do a "normal" 50% turnout schedule with my horses, Celtic Hill. They don't live out. I evented at a low level as a teen, but the practical side of me can't be bothered with that stuff anymore. I think 4H is ambitious as we'll get. I'll keep a physical barrier between them and monitor body...

Do you turn them out together? I just got a pair of nice minis for next to nothing from a lovely breeder who was thinning her small stock because she has fibromyalgia. The gelding is 4 and the mare just turned 1. They are full siblings, and will make a well-matched driving team. I'm looking...

What a nice, solid Haflinger! Some AC company in your area should so pick up this picture as an advertising campaign...

Are you in Montgomery County, MD? If so, can I come gaze adoringly at these gorgeous horses? LOL! I'm such a draft horse girl, but I do love looking at a purty Arabian!