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Have the day off
after a lovely weekend of full sun and breeze Saturday, clouds then an afternoon and evening downpour on Sunday. Heading across the state line into my OTHER favorite Carolina to sign papers on behalf of my parents to sell some of their property so that their late-life needs can be met. Bittersweet kind of day.
 
smccuen said:
Have the day off
after a lovely weekend of full sun and breeze Saturday, clouds then an afternoon and evening downpour on Sunday.  Heading across the state line into my OTHER favorite Carolina to sign papers on behalf of my parents to sell some of their property so that their late-life needs can be met.  Bittersweet kind of day.
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That's hard! I'm sorry, but its a good thing you are there to help take care of them.
 
Hollowoakfarm said:
I love the bantams, but won't keep them. My RC Brown Leghorns are as small as I go. The bantams require I build separate housing, and enclosed pens, and.... But gosh, some of them are elegantly beautiful!

But my birds must all be able to free-range together. So no bantams for me. I'll live vicariously through you!
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You would also love my Sicilian Buttercup Bantams. They are fantastic foragers, very wary but friendly and fit in fine with LF because they are a large bantam 2 lbs or so. They are the best layers of any of my crew if the eggs weren't a LF small I would keep them just for layer flock of beautiful white eggs. They aren't supposed to go broody but all three of mine have and have been fabulous first time mommas.
 
Good morning!
First I need to address something-I don't mind ANYONE joining in on this thread, but remember the BYC rules as well as the new swap rules. If there are continuing issues, they need to be worked out by PM. Nobody has been forgotten, but I don't have much time to be on here and cannot reply to PMs on the same thing over and over-you will get what you are owed as quickly as I can do it. If I could get my hens to produce enough to fill my swaps, by now I would be having plenty to sell, but unfortunately it doesn't work that way.
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Walli, I would love to help you butcher your cow, but I have no idea when I could get down there to do it-you would probably get better meat (although more expensive) by taking her to a butcher. When we butcher, it is usually just ground beef
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, because it is easy and because it is usually a downed cow that is older and a milk breed-Holsteins, not necessarily great eating, so it is mostly ground.
 
Hi heather!

Wow! I think butchering a cow would be just a bit more than I could handle. Birds no problem though. We took our 460 pound pig in for processing. It was much easier that way. They laughed because I had him follow me in like a dog. Well he was a pet, but we still ate him. His name was Hammy and he was delicious.
 
flocksalot said:
Hi heather!

Wow! I think butchering a cow would be just a bit more than I could handle. Birds no problem though. We took our 460 pound pig in for processing. It was much easier that way. They laughed because I had him follow me in like a dog. Well he was a pet, but we still ate him. His name was Hammy and he was delicious.
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flocksalot said:
Hi heather!

Wow! I think butchering a cow would be just a bit more than I could handle. Birds no problem though. We took our 460 pound pig in for processing. It was much easier that way. They laughed because I had him follow me in like a dog. Well he was a pet, but we still ate him. His name was Hammy and he was delicious.
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flocks you are a true farmer girl. You make me feel like a wuss.

Speaking if wuss my chicks have something and my little turkey cut his toe and hurt his leg and is crying and limping. He is eating and drinking just didn't want to run around.

The chicks are a bigger issue. They are fine get tired and die in 6 hrs. I'm going to switch them to fermented feed and try to get them digesting they are getting diareah too.

Between that and frying all my eggs its not been a good chicken month.
 

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