EDUCATIONAL INCUBATION & HATCHING CHAT THREAD, w/ Sally Sunshine Shipped Eggs

[daxigait]

Exactly! We are suffering from this in every field of life! We have to pay to hige for everthing because of this lousy policy!

That sounds very familiar unfortunately.

 

[Lazy Farmer]

@mlm Mike What is your favorite treatment for tapeworms? I have started valbazen I got a doe and doeling from a breeder this year and both of them have tapeworms.
If you do valbazen do you do two follow ups or just one?

Is there any pasture treatment?

Our Vet has us using this as needed. Sheep drench. She recomended double dose for goats. About $80 but it is a big container. So easy to use.
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[daxigait]

Our Vet has us using this as needed. Sheep drench. S he recomended double dose for goats. About $80 but it is a big container. So easy to use.
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Is it a one dose treatment? My bad is very careful that we don't treat unless we see symptoms or specific Worm but I know they have them from him I have seen them.

 

[Wickedchicken6]

Good morning everyone!! I'm doing a Liz to catch up. I'm back swathing today...so time is limited.

If he can build coops I've already claimed him.

You can have him with my blessings.

So you are saying that every time there is progress made on the construction of your your new coop you would be stuffing a dollar bill in his speedo?

Oh my! I once saw a man in a lime green speedo one day and a nude speedo the next day. I seriously just about had a heart attack with the nude speedo. Until I realized he was "not" nude. Huge respect for the dude, he looked like he was having an incredible amount of fun! He looked just like Ron Jeremy and he didn't care what people were thinking. Good for him!!!

@kwhites634 The up button in quotes to take you back to the original post is working again!

That's awesome!!!

Whilez Crocodilez

Sorry I was abrupt yesterday. We're combining beans and I'm swathing right in front of the combine. I kinda have to be on point...lol.

That's it! I'm losing weight, buying a speedo, & taking my show on the road; I could use the money. I'll even furnish my own tools & tool belt.

There's the entrepreneurialistic spirit!!!

DH does ours at dusk. The flys are dormant.. just skeeters on the butcherer. Weird how flys behave. They have such a short life span cycle and sleep during 48% of it.. hmmmm

The doctors I sold lamb to were from south africa, and she explained when they slaughtered...they gutted and processed them up high because there's a height where the flies don't fly. That's how they dealt with it. I thought that was cool.

UPDATE:
The tiny piglet appears to be a runt that had struggled to compete for teet time by the more aggressive teet mates. No external injuries apparent. The Goat's milk has her on her feet and she is a pistol! Gotta still nurse her for a few days. Gave her an iron shot and vitamin B as well
The mother sow is our oldest. AND one of the largest.
She is over 550# and has become a risk of fatality to the offspring because of her size/weight & clumbsey - View attachment 1153228 View attachment 1153229 View attachment 1153231 ness.
Our younger Sows are growth stunted now at approx. 400-ish # on purpose for safer mommy time..Almost zero fatalities.
My biggest girl is my only Pure Berkshire Breed Female. They bring in the cash w/that breed. We are entertaining the thought of keeping 1 or two of this litter for replacement but we would have the need for purchasing a fresh bloodline boar. Pigs are different than Poultry. Daddy and Daughter = birth defects.
Anyway.. enough finger pecking.. how's about some eye candy?

I would be clumsy at that weight. Father/daughter...it causes birth defects in pigs?? I thought it was a fairly acceptable first cross for many animals for crossing back?

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There needs to be more roosters. WAY more roosters. Otherwise that's very accurate.

Good morning everyone!

I skipped a bunch of posts.

You skipped a bunch of posts?? I did not.

Shame!!

I agree...the shame.

Feed prices have gone up while hang weight prices have dropped. Only big time farmers whom can buy feed in mass bulk prices can profit. But they also collect the animals excrement, wash and sift it and re feed the un digested grains back to their stock. use growth hormones/steriods and other chemicals to maximize growth in a short period of time to reduce the overhead cost of feed.

What??? How can that be cost effective? How do they even do that...as in wash the grain? I know grain goes out here...that where the guineas/chickens come in. They dont' mill the grain? Actually I assumed feedlots would buy prepared.

We have only one here. I think it is the second Friday of every month, desparate farmers unloading their under fed stock to private buyers.
Now in the spring, The southeasten youth fair has FFA/4H animals selling for HUGE MONEY.. Even Publix attends and purchases as a public relations gesture. A handi cap child's pigs sold at over $850 one year. Our daughters at $650 (cost 650 to raise it too)
Big difference when selling prices when the cause is for children.

Same here. 4H sells for incredible prices.

I made it!

 

[Akrnaf2]

Our customers as well. If they call and we quote a price and they say it is too high, Hub tells them to go look at those dirts cheap hogs listed and come here before you buy.. then we will wheel & deal.. Some do. Sometimes if we see an abundance of ads in our market, we pose as buyers to check out the competition. We see gross living conditions, under fed animals, sores and sickness not separated, poop in food dishes. Gross conditions.
mismanaged herds.
not all of them but quite a few.

I will never pay one cent to this pepole!

 

[Lazy Farmer]

And my money in my pocket.

my moo moo doesn't have pockets

 

[kwhites634]

There are two possible reasons.

Lay it on me; I can take it.

 

[BullChick]

That's the other.

 

[Christinecam]

It is a lot easier culling something for food than a tiny young one for sure. Had a pullet with a rye neck defect last month/ I tried. lord I tried. anyway.. I felt what you are feeling. It is a difficult call to make.

Oh my is it ever, especially when you have a strong little life, she fought! This morning she was weak and I could tell it was just getting harder for her. So I gently let her go to sleep. Mixed the carbon monoxide and let her go.
Thanks for the support and help!!

 

[Wickedchicken6]

my moo moo doesn't have pockets

Mine either. And neither do most of my pants!! What's up with that?