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[MN Chicken]

 

[scandiafowl]

An odd observation.

Living in the country and your neighbors comes over and you have a bloody knife in your hand ... Doesn't bat an eye.

In the city?

 

[KlopKlop]

An odd observation.

Living in the country and your neighbors comes over and you have a bloody knife in your hand ... Doesn't bat an eye.

In the city?

Its probably all context was there a matching bloody rooster to match the knife?

 

[scandiafowl]

Its probably all context  was there a matching bloody rooster to match the knife?

Several ;-)

 

[KlopKlop]

Several ;-)

on second thought... that probably would still raise eyebrows in the city

 

[aussiegal318]

Were you knitting at the Nowthen farm market a couple of years ago? There was a lady there that I talked to that had alpacas in the area and knitted from their wool...

No that is Judy, I got my alpacas from her. She keeps 25-30 at any given time, but she is looking at liquidating her herd too. Her DH is retiring & they would like to travel. She is a special lady! She has school groups come out to the farm & does other events. I helped her with one last summer. Unless you hand spin, there's no money in alpacas, but cheaper then horses.

 

[KlopKlop]

No that is Judy, I got my alpacas from her. She keeps 25-30 at any given time, but she is looking at liquidating her herd too. Her DH is retiring & they would like to travel. She is a special lady! She has school groups come out to the farm & does other events. I helped her with one last summer. Unless you hand spin, there's no money in alpacas, but cheaper then horses.

But can you ride them??

 

[aussiegal318]

oh my gosh, some of you can stay up late! I finally got old enough where being up at 10 pm is a rarity. funny how you think you will never ever hit that point when you are younger!

Blanch, you set a gorgeous table. love the pics.

Aussiegal and Coffee, sounds like a wonderful time. Great that the kids got to see and be with the animals.

I have a friend/neighbor down the road who has alpacas. We arent close friends or anything, but run into each other at social events. The company she worked for went out of business last year so she lost her job. Just found out she has lost her house , it went up for sheriff's auction and she and the alapacas, livestock dog, house dogs, barn cats, housecats have to be out by April. I feel badly because while we are not close, I wish I had known and could have encouraged her to get her place up for sale. She is in her mid 60's, worked hard her whole life, has health problems. And to be facing this?

I think it is hard to find someone to buy alpacas, and probably hard to just find a home for them. She clearly probably can't find a place to rent that allow all the house dogs. Can't really think of much I can do to support her except keep in contact and just be there. I kept thinking of her this thanksgiving.

That is really hard. I know that there is auctions for alpacas and now there are alpaca rescues. My mom lost her house because she couldn't work due to health issues and it was so difficult & she didn't have all the animals.

 

[The BlanchRanch]

Quote: So jealous. Wish I could come up with an excuse to own one.

 

[The BlanchRanch]

Quote:
Mass execution? So did you save one?