Getting the flock out of here - a diary of a crazy chicken man

[ozexpat]

10 day old veal is a little young. The other 2 have such potential (700 lb. heifer and 550 lb. bull (Still need him worked). The other cow is pregnant again. SO we put her with neighbors cattle because bull still trying to nurse. The real baby 1 is up and zipping back and forth across the pasture and checking out the cattle over the fence nose to nose. When I can get to the vet I am getting a tranq and neighbor going to help me band the bull. Meant to keep him to breed back but other neighbor talked about selling out (He's like 89 and still works his own cattle) but not this year I guess. And I don't want Jr. to get into his heifers and accidently kill them because of his Holstein blood/bone size.
Last year we put the 1st bull (900lbs. give or take) into the freezer and we still have meat. On the hoof and just eating grass is as good as in the freezer. And cheaper (Tired of buying extra freezers on butchering day.) Best part is when we bought the 2 bred cows we were hoping for 2 calves from them, and then meant to butcher the older girls after they weaned. But we have an unspoken breeding agreement. That cost me 0$ just pond water. We get the occasional bale of hay over the fence in winter also. A great deal both ways (We're on calf 5 from the 2 we were hoping for and 1 more on the way. Like chicken math.) And the neighbor saves over $5000 a year on water for his herd. We don't have well water, even15 miles out because unstable water tables, So its piped city water everywhere. Unless you drill 250 feet for a reliable stable source. And they charge $2000+ for that. And that's just the drill and pipe not pump. Both properties are on a higher elevation also. Across the pasture neighbor runs cattle on it literally drops more than 400 feet, from my fence at a 45 degree angle or so, into a bottom land.

And all this pales to the fact of....... What is the shipping on an adult yak? And would USPS treat it like hatching eggs

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But I think I have a BSL going broody so everything is good if she will continue he mood.

. More space in incubators.

TURKEY HILL RANCH
7181 HWY 87
Rushville, NE 69360
ranch: 308-327-2346

has some girls for sale for $2300 lol - and you can cross them with cattle.

in cowboy hat country too.

 

[5 Acre Rooster]

Sticking with "classic" farm themed animals (For USA anyway), I am already the "Chicken guy" in these parts.

And I only paid $1000 for 4 cattle (2 cows and calves they carried.) well wife did. If I told wife that we need a $2300 water buffalo I would need a head stone ASAP. She puts up with my birds and our cows. Because she can and WILL eat them. As long as I do all the work.

 

[Leftcoastnative]

Well, I finally made it to the current year. I'm up to Jan. '14. Determined to finish the whole thing. It's so compelling.
I can't count the number of times over the last week or so that I've remembered something I read long ago... goes something like this..: "A good general thinks strategy, a GREAT general thinks logistics!"
Sounds to me like you've got 'em both nailed down pretty good there Mr. Ozexpat.

 

[ozexpat]

Well, I finally made it to the current year. I'm up to Jan. '14. Determined to finish the whole thing. It's so compelling.
I can't count the number of times over the last week or so that I've remembered something I read long ago... goes something like this..: "A good general thinks strategy, a GREAT general thinks logistics!"
Sounds to me like you've got 'em both nailed down pretty good there Mr. Ozexpat.

and the best general shares his thoughts and gets input from others

all the people that pass by here influence me with their thoughts and ideas.

thanks for joining in.

 

[ocap]

I prefer the dual purpose shorthorn over the waterbuffalo:

Red Milking Shorthorn Oxen

A team of red Milking Shorthorns planting corn at Tillers International
in Kalamazoo, Michigan (photo by Drew Conroy).

 

[piglett]

TURKEY HILL RANCH
7181 HWY 87
Rushville, NE 69360
ranch: 308-327-2346

has some girls for sale for $2300 lol - and you can cross them with cattle.

in cowboy hat country too.

so i will need a big horse trailer & a truck big enough to pull it 4000 miles round trip

got it

 

[piglett]

you better build more coops

maybe he becomes the "backup boy"

 

[piglett]

Well, I finally made it to the current year. I'm up to Jan. '14. Determined to finish the whole thing. It's so compelling.
I can't count the number of times over the last week or so that I've remembered something I read long ago... goes something like this..: "A good general thinks strategy, a GREAT general thinks logistics!"
Sounds to me like you've got 'em both nailed down pretty good there Mr. Ozexpat.

welcome to the crazy chicken man thread LCN

read on through the up's & downs

this thread has it all including talk at one point of some sort of a shotgun wedding

what more do you need

piglett

 

[ramirezframing]

Quote: I aint gonna lie this was/is like a great book. I couldn't stop reading and when I got caught up, I had the "let down/ lost feeling" of being done with a great book.

 

[5 Acre Rooster]

I aint gonna lie this was/is like a great book. I couldn't stop reading and when I got caught up, I had the "let down/ lost feeling" of being done with a great book.

Best part is it never ends completely. Just have to wait for a chapter or two now and then. And being interactive you can help with the storyline.

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