I almost forgot about you guys! I have been busy and moving to a new/old farm. I moved to the old family farm and sold my other farm, long story. Got divorced and now am settling into my new life, crazy huh.
Hey its been awhile. I'm at a new farm now long story short I moved real fast a month ago. I still have my Paint mare and her filly and my two Shire mares. I have around 70 cows with calves. I sold off almost half my herd for lack of pasture on the new place. I have a couple dozen sheep and...
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Can we have some pictures please? How are your mares doing? We have been lucky enough up here with hay and straw prices staying reasonable. I heard we are teh exception this year with all the drought.
Lol, which Mare's are we talking about. I have Emily the Buckskin, Ash the Grulla...
My mutt Sows piglets are a diverse crossing of Yorkshire x Duroc x Hampshire x GOS. The mutt mothers are GOS x Duroc but they look more like a GOS. They were raised in the woods by a friend of mine so they love to root around.
Ok, for the most part the Wethers are on the mend. Electrolytes in the water and Probios in drenchs not to mention charcoal milkshakes for all, lol. The Wethers are acting more and more like themselves.
Well we have a much better hold on the situation now. The University vet labs and my wifes lab work showed a wide range of culprits in the hay. One particular hay sample had Foxglove, Hemlock, Horse Nettle and Milkweed in high concentrations. Some of the sample showed elevated Herbicide...
Lots of sick and dead wethers today. Had some bales of alfalfa with high concentrations of poisoness plants. Its a wait and see now if any more kick the bucket. So far we've lost 7.
Fortunately some of our area Coyotes are so use to people they don't run away until threatened. My friend P and I got two each already and since then the problems in my area have slowed down. One of the Yote's was a female so were hoping she was the Alpha/Queen, but the real score was the...
Nice Thanksgiving hope everyone else had a good time. Might have to go on a Coyote hunt with some neighbors soon as we have a growing threat. A few locals have lost some Chickens and one foal was lost a few miles away. We lost a couple hens from our free range flocks and our Sheep have been...