in this random rambling thread we post random pictures

[casportpony]

Took this photo along with photos of our mountains along the way home from docs. Do you know what it is? Of course you do. Look close.

 

[Sally PB]

It's Christmas decorations up WAAAAY too early!

 

[theoldchick]

 

[electrycmonk]

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We have one of these here in Denton,Tx

 

[Pasha838]

I cooked tomato sauce yesterday. The tomatoes in the greenhouse were green, I had to take them into the house to ripen, because it was already cold at night (-7 C). They lay in the couch for a while, I looked - and they were red. And then I cooked the sauce out of them.

These tomatoes are still green. I fried them with beef and onions.

 

[pennyJo1960]

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Beautiful bird you have there !

 

[pertnear09]

I cooked tomato sauce yesterday. The tomatoes in the greenhouse were green, I had to take them into the house to ripen, because it was already cold at night (-7 C). They lay in the couch for a while, I looked - and they were red. And then I cooked the sauce out of them.
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These tomatoes are still green. I fried them with beef and onions.
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I'm glad your tomatoes didn't go to waste, Pasha. Is beef expensive over there. Our's is getting very expensive.

 

[Pasha838]

I'm glad your tomatoes didn't go to waste, Pasha. Is beef expensive over there. Our's is getting very expensive.

I asked my parents to buy some beef, because I have been eating goat meat and poultry meat for three years now, I wanted some variety)
I'm not sure if I will ever buy a cow, the place where I live is located on the hills, and there are also many ravines and broken woods. It is convenient and easy to graze goats here, because goats climb hills much better than humans, but it will probably not be very convenient for a cow to walk here.
The prices for cows here are very different, sometimes there are ads when can buy a young, but already started eating grass heifer for 30,000 rubles (416 dollars), this is a simple breed, cheap and uncomplicated, if it is purebred then it can cost in the region of 200,000 rubles (2,776 dollars).
Sometimes there are ads about beef cows, young bulls, where the price is even about 15 thousand rubles (208 $). For local money, it is quite inexpensive, and if i buy ready-made meat, it will turn out to be much more expensive.

I don’t trade because I don’t want to buy licenses and pay any trade taxes, I keep farm animals only for household needs. Some live with me as pets, not for meat. Well, to be honest, I'm too lazy to go somewhere and trade even if there were no taxes.

In the place where I live, the climate for tomatoes is cold, so it is customary to grow them in greenhouses, and the main crop ripens only in autumn.
Some people build themselves heated greenhouses, but I use the usual one so that it thaws out early in the spring, I just put old manure there on the beds. There is enough time from spring to autumn to pick a lot of cucumbers and wait for red tomatoes.

 

[Isadora]

I asked my parents to buy some beef, because I have been eating goat meat and poultry meat for three years now, I wanted some variety)
I'm not sure if I will ever buy a cow, the place where I live is located on the hills, and there are also many ravines and broken woods. It is convenient and easy to graze goats here, because goats climb hills much better than humans, but it will probably not be very convenient for a cow to walk here.
The prices for cows here are very different, sometimes there are ads when can buy a young, but already started eating grass heifer for 30,000 rubles (416 dollars), this is a simple breed, cheap and uncomplicated, if it is purebred then it can cost in the region of 200,000 rubles (2,776 dollars).
Sometimes there are ads about beef cows, young bulls, where the price is even about 15 thousand rubles (208 $). For local money, it is quite inexpensive, and if i buy ready-made meat, it will turn out to be much more expensive.

I don’t trade because I don’t want to buy licenses and pay any trade taxes, I keep farm animals only for household needs. Some live with me as pets, not for meat. Well, to be honest, I'm too lazy to go somewhere and trade even if there were no taxes.

In the place where I live, the climate for tomatoes is cold, so it is customary to grow them in greenhouses, and the main crop ripens only in autumn.
Some people build themselves heated greenhouses, but I use the usual one so that it thaws out early in the spring, I just put old manure there on the beds. There is enough time from spring to autumn to pick a lot of cucumbers and wait for red tomatoes.

Have you considered smaller cows? We have Dexters, and they are so agile compared to larger breed cows! We have a fairly steep hill fenced off for them and they maneuver on it no problem.

 

[Pasha838]

Have you considered smaller cows? We have Dexters, and they are so agile compared to larger breed cows! We have a fairly steep hill fenced off for them and they maneuver on it no problem.

I looked on the Internet - such cows are either very rare here, or they are not at all.
In principle, the place where I live is not at all mountains, these hills cannot be called steep, but there is no full-fledged flat pasture nearby.
Why is the soil uncomfortable here - there are many shallow holes in it, not deep at all, but sometimes a people can accidentally twist a leg. On the other hand, I have never had a cow, it is quite possible that she walks on four legs more accurate than I on two ))
While I'm definitely not ready to buy a cow, in the near future I want to limit myself to buying 2-3 sheep and, possibly, 1-2 piglets.
Now I have a herd of goats, their number ranges from 20 to 30, although once upon a time I wanted to keep only 2-3 goats. I eat part of the livestock, especially when I have too many male goats.

Very pedigree animals are too expensive to me, if i will talk about cows, then in the distant future I may buy a Holstein cow common here, different variations of which (not very purebred) often hang in advertisements for sale.

My farm is developing relatively slowly, so I won't buy a cow soon. Before even buying goats, I spent five years building a barn, fences, and running water and electricity there. And only then I bought goats.
I think I will prepare for buying a cow even longer. The winter is relatively cold here, so the barns are built quite strong and capital, in addition, space is needed to store a large amount of hay in winter, because spring does not come very early, the grass begins to grow normally only in May.

In other matters, I think sooner or later I will still have a cow, because my great-grandmother, even when she was very old, still coped with servicing the cow, milked and fed her without any particular difficulties. And I'm not old yet. As a last resort, I will live with goats, goats are also good animals.

Anyway, I have already found a place where to build a barn for a cow, but there first I have to demolish an empty bad barn, where once in the summer the workers who worked for me and my neighbors spent the night. Many years have passed since then, the barn has almost collapsed, I am gradually dismantling it, but more often I am doing completely different things.

If I build a shed for a cow, I will make it a permanent structure, like the existing shed for goats, i.e. build it from bricks or blocks, with insulation and an attic for storing hay. This is a rather slow business, but I think I can manage it in 10 or 15 years. I can certainly hire workers, but it's expensive. I'd rather do it myself slowly ))