Okies in the BYC The Original

[faerielady]

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My dad cut the heads off and hung them to drain. P&B and I skinned and gutted them. We got to P&B's house around 1:35pm, finished the set up, started around 2, finished at 4:30ish. That included three smoke breaks for me in order for me to wash my hands and warm up (my hands got cold... I was using my smoking habit as an excuse to allow my fingers to warm up).

Oh, and there were 23 of them.

Kudos to you and the rest of the team! Very nice of P&B to help out like that.

Man, I don't think she'll ever realize exactly how grateful to her I am...

 

[nnbreeder]

Buster as you will soon find out it takes a lot of power to shock through hair. I've seen Coyotes and dogs both go through electric fences at a dead run. They just fold up their legs and slide right through it.

Teva had one goat that would ease through an electric fence, as long as she moved forward her hair insulated her. Oster was the cure for that, just shaved a line down her back and her world lit up the next time she tried it.

In sandy soil run both hot and ground wires on the fence as it shocks much better. Dry ground and sand doesn't conduct electricity well.

There are some dogs here that I need to light up too it's a better alternative then a lead injection. Tomorrow I will be building a fence just inside the barbed wire fence with four closely spaced wires. When they squeeze through the tight five strand they will encounter the electric. Should be interesting.

 

[Buster52]

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No, I was in Fort Worth. Went to the Fort Worth Stock Show with my Favre-hating nephew and my brother and sis. Looked at chickens and cattle and such. The Cornish they had were awesome! Made me glad there was cage wire between them and me. I didn't get home till about 9.

Gotta get some sleep. Good luck in your efforts to get that extra property! I hope the guy isn't asking an arm and a leg for it because of all the developers out there.

 

[b52fizzle]

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So where is the pic of the NN?

I was hoping to introduce Him once we named him but I guess I could go ahead and do it

http://i158.photobucket.com/albums/t115/crazyfrog78/100_3885.jpg

I was thinking of Yosimite Sam since he is a red head and he has large red " mustache" ha ha ha

he didnt go through the auction last night did he?

 

[nnbreeder]

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Be careful that it is not overpriced, many are now trying to sell off land at way too high a price. If it is cultivated with improvements such as water and electric you can make it pay for itself but only at under 2000 an acre according to some of my customers. And that was when the cattle market was really good, I suspect it has dropped a little per acre now.

75 acres of good pasture will run about 35-40 head of cows. If they all have healthy calves they are worth about 250 dollars each at weaning time or 250-300 pounds or roughly 9000 dollars a year before expenses are taken off. If you cut hay off of it too you could probably pay for the place in 20 years depending on markets. With no out of pocket expenses. The cows should pay for themselves in two years.

 

[okcarla]

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Be careful that it is not overpriced, many are now trying to sell off land at way too high a price. If it is cultivated with improvements such as water and electric you can make it pay for itself but only at under 2000 an acre according to some of my customers. And that was when the cattle market was really good, I suspect it has dropped a little per acre now.

75 acres of good pasture will run about 35-40 head of cows. If they all have healthy calves they are worth about 250 dollars each at weaning time or 250-300 pounds or roughly 9000 dollars a year before expenses are taken off. If you cut hay off of it too you could probably pay for the place in 20 years depending on markets. With no out of pocket expenses. The cows should pay for themselves in two years.

I wish we could find good land not too far from Tuttle for no more than $2K an acre. It's probably tough to get a loan on land only. I'd love to get 20-100 acres or more.

 

[nnbreeder]

Well it seems the banks are loaning money. On GSA auctions they have a few immense lots of travel trailer and mobile homes, from FEMA. One lot has 11000 travel trailers, 4000 mobile homes and 40 park models and the bidding was a tad over 7 million dollars!

I would be really interested at just who is buying those lots. How would you ever sell that many?

 

[b52fizzle]

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It IS winter out there... it's getting cold again!

The hassle is finding a place to GET them that won't require a minimum order of 25. I only want a few at a time, maybe start a rotation of them or something. Means I'd have to figure out a working tractor design... an A frame tractor just doesn't work for me. Maybe just a frame with a plywood cover for half of it, on wheels.

if you mean a minimum of 25 chicks you can get them you will either have to pay extra for less then full or have cockerels put in place of the difference for heating and movement issues for shipping

 

[poultryand bees]

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You have an "enabler" from the BYC allow you to bid using their nmber - than sort stuff out after the sale

 

[okcarla]

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I know ... it's crazy, huh? I don't know why they're selling them in such large lots that regular folks can't touch. Heck, they're probably selling them to China & they'll turn around & buy land & put them on small lots and rent them out.

I have a fear, hopefully irrational, that China is going to take our country over some day. USA keeps borrowing money from them that will take a couple of generations to pay back already.