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[nnbreeder]

Here is an artical that basically says that the frizzle gene and the NN genes increase the immune system of birds.

http://academic.research.microsoft.com/Paper/13223514

 

[Sooner]

Funny I think we all have those stories. Mine is pasta, mom made it way to often & I willl eat it but not willingly.

We use to raise hogs to butcher but haven't in a couple of years. Might have to go back to it the way prices are raising. Those porkchops are the best, then the bacon!

 

[Sooner]

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I'm counting on local folks feeling the same way.

How often do they have your famers market? Are you in Elgin or Fletcher?

 

[Sooner]

I will be starting my NN's this fall I believe. Just have to make some room to be able to do it. Got 5 RIR's on the ground that will be bred to the one that Wayne gave me.

 

[Buster52]

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I'm counting on local folks feeling the same way.

How often do they have your famers market? Are you in Elgin or Fletcher?

Wednesday and Saturday, in Lawton. Very active one.

 

[nnbreeder]

I dislike thin cut bacon and the fat on it from the store is just way too much. But a lot of the quality of the cut depends on the butcher too. I think that the last hogs we bought were about 20 dollars as pigs and we raised them to about 400 pounds before sending them in. I know that once you get the hide off they look pretty much the same but I prefer the Durocs for butcher hogs.

I pasture raised them on a mix of Alfalfa and Haygrazer. Then had to take the Kubota out to close the ditches that they made rooting!

The next year I raised okra and corn in the old hog pen. Bumper crop even here in this gumbo ground.

 

[Buster52]

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Cornbread. Can't even look at it.

Funny thing is it was served with beans and like them fine.

 

[Buster52]

Night all. Nice chatting

 

[Sooner]

Our hog pens hen has since turned into a chicken pen, LOL. I am telling myself not to make anymore large pens.

I coudn't eat goulash (sp) for years but like it now. Just not very often.

 

[Sooner]

Night Buster!