"Louisiana "La-yers" Peeps"

[Studabird]

I don't know about "fun". It's usually loud and today it's hot.

Something is always going on: today it's a female goat screaming her head off for no particular reason. I discussed 4th of July barbecue choices with her but she hasn't taken the hint...I think she's in heat but I don't want to breed back for next year's babies yet. Goats have a 5 month gestation and December is just too busy to be birthing a bunch of goat babies.

Well no I am sure that it is not always fun... I also know that I am romanticizing having animals again. I grew up on a pig farm and am about to move back to the country with my chickens and maybe get a pig or two to eat fro Xmas.

 

[alwaystj9]

I used to run 2 pigs a year, they were great for cleaning up acorns & pecans. They were also more destructive than I ever imagined they would be. Unfortunately the abbatoir/butcher I used retired and then the facility went underwater in 2016 so no one has taken it over. I don't know any other place to take one for butchering.

 

[Studabird]

I used to run 2 pigs a year, they were great for cleaning up acorns & pecans. They were also more destructive than I ever imagined they would be. Unfortunately the abbatoir/butcher I used retired and then the facility went underwater in 2016 so no one has taken it over. I don't know any other place to take one for butchering.

Too Bad you are in SE LA. That is how my Dad would ruin a perfectly Saturday. I would come back from my morning chores at my Uncle's and there would be a dead pig hanging and I knew that I was going to be butchering and not fishing

 

[alwaystj9]

It's also gotten difficult to even find piglets to raise. The last one I bought, 2013, was a show cull and I felt like I was paying a show price for it, too! Anyway, having been raised in a controlled environment, and on concrete, it did not adapt well to pasture life. We called it "The Running Pig": everytime you looked outside it was running across the pasture, freaked out for one reason or other. I gave up on trying to fatten it and finally had it butchered a year later.
I had to pay for added fat to get sausage made and the butcher kept calling and apologizing for how lean it was. Basically all I got were some round little chops and sausage. The only good part was when I took the head to work to mess with someone...

 

[WhoDatChick]

Hi there my fellow LA peeps! Does anyone happen to know of someone selling a good and well trained trail riding gelding? Between 9 and 14 years old... for an intermediate rider.... and for a fair price...

 

[alwaystj9]

I'll ask around here.

 

[2hnznroo]

I used to live in Madisonville, Mandeville and Abita Springs. I always wanted to move back to the Northshore but not now. I want to move back there the way it was 20 years ago.

Come out to Bush. Still has reasonable land prices. 12 minutes to town.

 

[sealer39]

Come out to Bush. Still has reasonable land prices. 12 minutes to town.

Of course land in still cheap in Bush being that close to the paper mill in Bogalusa!
Just kidding. Maybe one day I’ll get back down there.

 

[alwaystj9]

Just a little goat bragging on my kids that went to the zoo! The zoo sent me this today, it was in the local newspaper!


Photos: Could the kids be any cuter? Young Nigerian Dwarf-African Pygmy mix goats new to BREC's Baton Rouge Zoo

• TRAVIS SPRADLING | [email protected]
• Jul 30, 2020 - 4:54 pm

Meet Brutus and Caesar, two young Nigerian Dwarf-African Pygmy mix goats recently donated by a local farmer to BREC's Baton Rouge Zoo, where a KidsZoo enclosure is their new home. So named because they were born on March 15, the Ides of March, the brother 'Pygerian' kids Caesar and Brutus will eventually be in the 'contact yard' in the KidsZoo, but for now can be seen in the KidsZoo barn.

The growing boys each weighed approximately 20 pounds at the end of July, 2020, but Brutus, who has darker coloration, is sporting a bigger belly. Caesar is not without some flair of his own-- he likes sitting in an empty water tub, and occasionally rears up on his hind legs and prances around a bit.

Twins, No Kidding-- Brutus, left, and Caesar, right, two young Nigerian Dwarf-African Pygmy mix goats that were recently donated by a local farmer to BREC's Baton Rouge Zoo, hang out in their KidsZoo enclosure at their new home, Wednesday, July 29, 2020. So named because they were born on March 15, the Ides of March, twin brother 'Pygerian' kids Caeser and Brutus will eventually be in the 'contact yard' in the KidsZoo, but for now can be seen in the KidsZoo barn. They each weigh approximately 20 pounds at present, but Brutus, who has darker coloration, is sporting a bigger belly.

STAFF PHOTO BY TRAVIS SPRADLING

Brutus, left, and Caesar, right, brother Nigerian Dwarf-African Pygmy mix goats that were recently donated by a local farmer to BREC's Baton Rouge Zoo, hang out in their enclosure at their new home, Wednesday, July 29, 2020. Caesar has taken a liking to sitting in an empty water tub.

STAFF PHOTO BY TRAVIS SPRADLING

Caesar, left, on his hind legs doing a little bit of showboating, and Brutus, brother Nigerian Dwarf-African Pygmy mix goats that were recently donated by a local farmer to BREC's Baton Rouge Zoo, hang out in their enclosure at their new home, Wednesday, July 29, 2020.

 

[PrimroseMom1]

I have a friend in Baton Rouge with a Black Australorp Roo he needs to find a home for. He lives in a subdivision and can’t keep Roos. Thanks