BREEDING FOR PRODUCTION...EGGS AND OR MEAT.

[JRNash]

Lol

 

[JRNash]

That is beutiful.

 

[hellbender]

That is beutiful.

Don't know about that but it is functional. Thanks for the complement...

 

[JRNash]

Where Im at its mostly swamp.

 

[JRNash]

We get that much snow and everything shuts down for a holiday.lol

 

[bnjrob]

We're using the Premier 1 fencing. It works great so long as you don't try and put it into gravel. The spikes on the bottom will bend out of shape if you do that and they're a bugger to bend back.

We run ours off a marine battery. I'm not sure solar would produce enough "POP" to contain the goats and much of our property is wooded anyway. We only need to top off the charge on the battery every 2-3 days and it typically takes less than an hour on the charger.

Good info, thanks! I have been looking at getting the Premier 1 fencing. We're going to need it for our turkeys that will be going to the pasture soon.

Sounds like I'll have to pour some water on the ground during summer to help get the posts in without them getting bent. Our clay ground is rock solid and cracks during the summer and it can bend a light duty t-post, so I'm sure it could bend those fencing spikes.

I'll tell my husband about using the marine battery. He was an electrician in the military and he'll be the one making the final decision on solar/battery stuff. I'm not worried as much about my turkeys getting out of the fencing, since I'll be clipping wings to try to keep them in their assigned area - the fencing will be more for keeping coyotes OUT.

 

[Beer can]

I know this is a stupid question. But how do you " grind the meat "What Im asking is the consistency.ive noticed so mms e fowl meat is either mushy and wont hold together or chunky and to coarse

I've noticed ground turkey is mushy, I imagine chicken would be also. On turkey I buy them from the store in the fall when they are on sale. All the meat and fat, no skin, is cut off the bone and ground. I mix it with Italian sausage spices, buy the big bag of spice mix enough for 50lbs only costs a little more than 5lb mix. I also make venison sausage, and venison breakfast sausage as well venison I add 20% pork fat grocery store saves some for me at .29 cents a pound. The turkey I stuff it in hog casings with chopped onion and green peppers. So the mushiness wouldn't matter on that, once cooked it has about the same texture as pork sausage.
The duck I ground medium grind, I didn't notice it being mushy, but they were older birds, I just made regular burgers out of them.
Held together nicely.

 

[JRNash]

Beer can that sounds good

 

[LindaB220]

Do you ship rain? I would definitely order some if I could! The fire danger here literally went from "Low Level 1" to "Moderate Level 1" in 24 hours. It's supposed to get in the hundreds later this week (unusual for this time of the year in this part of the country) and we expect the fire danger will jump another rating.

Funny you should mention it, but , I just finished Steve Soloman's book on gardening without irrigation. He wrote it from and about the hot summers in Oregon.

 

[Mini Meat]

I had to buy a demo hammer to loosen up the base rocked ground where I put up my fence. Where there is a will there is a way. Worked like a charm.