➡I accidentally bought Balut eggs: 2 live ducks! Now a Chat Thread!

[Tesumph]

They are beef cows. Switching from limisin to Angus the past few years.

That’s fun. My in-laws ranch runs about 800 beefmasters. It’s a cow-calf herd, I didn’t know how much I loved cattle before then haha.

 

[Toogoodoo]

They look so neat




I had a nightmare that I was raising them for food... I was trying to wrestle it down to process it like my turkeys It was as big as a cow and I wasn't having much luck
when I woke up I wondered why it didn't kick me to death and why I wasn't using a gun instead

Well that's a crazy dream

I hope this one becomes tame like the fiance's last one (this emu's mom) - he used to sit down and it would lay in his lap and rest her head on the ground. They thought it was a male all that time too lol til she laid an egg this year! I love the feathers. Only problem I foresee is that I have a few piercings (nose, both side of lip, and 4-5 each ear), and that emu ripped someone's lip ring clean out once!

I recently learned that emu were raised for food for awhile as a "replacement" for beef, and that the oils were deemed valuable as another benefit for emu farmers.
Definitely don't think wrestling one would be a great idea with how they can have lethal kicks lol! This one is already crazy strong with it's legs when it doesn't want to be held.

 

[Kiki]

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Just a couple of photod of the cow herds on pastures and a few of the garden.

 

[Molpet]

emu were raised for food for awhile as a "replacement" for beef, and that the oils were deemed valuable as another benefit for emu farmers.

yep I have some pain cream that is emu based I got at a fair from people who had them
and emu and ostrich meat was a craze a while back, used for food in many other countries

 

[Toogoodoo]

Vacation plans fell through for the millionth time so abandoning hope on that trip and and planning something far more exciting with my sister. Found really cheap airfare to ITALY!

I would LOVE to go to Italy!

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My forever broody got some eggs. 7 fuzz butts!

We were shopping.
This particular store is pretty cool.
I should have taken more picture of all the animals everywhere.

Cabela's/Bass Pro?

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What a beautiful garden and property! I'd love to have a view with some cows in it! (I guess I could look across the street to the fiance's family's property, but our own would be nice too!)

 

[PirateGirl]

@NanaKat I love your garden! This is how I envision my front yard one day. All raised beds. I'm working on the ones I have for now. Once I can achieve relative success with those, I can make more.

 

[PirateGirl]

Miss Sunshine must be feeling a little bit better today because while I was cooking her egg in the kitchen she actually got up from her bed in the other room and walked in to see what I was doing, licking her lips. This is good. Then when we went out she stopped to look for squirrels in the wood pile. This is also good. She has not had interest in anything for days.

 

[Morrigan]

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I love it!!!

So green and beautiful. Where I live, it's only green from about March to May and then everything that not on irrigation, slowly turns brown and dies.

Things in Spring:

Things in Fall:

 

[Morrigan]

Miss Sunshine must be feeling a little bit better today because while I was cooking her egg in the kitchen she actually got up from her bed in the other room and walked in to see what I was doing, licking her lips. This is good. Then when we went out she stopped to look for squirrels in the wood pile. This is also good. She has not had interest in anything for days.

Looking for squirrel!

 

[biophiliac]

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beautiful country!