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[microchick]

We had patients that were hog farmers. Bless them, they would come into the office, scrubbed and with clean clothes on, take their shoes off at the door and you could still smell pig on them. They were some of my favorite people. You have to have a lot of the right stuff to be able to wake up every morning and go to work at the hog confinement.

YIKES! Yellow legged wasps! Nasty mean aggressive angry hateful vicious Godless motherless sons of Satan each and every one of them. Thanks to them stinging me, actually attacking me when I wasn't even near their nests, I now have to carry an Epi Pen with me 24/7. Hate em almost as much as I do Marek's disease and Lyme disease.

Wicked, I'm glad I'm not the only person on earth with Operator Error syndrome. Thank you so much for your words of encouragement concerning little Burd. Nothing wicked about you, girl, you are an angel.

I candled my latest broody, Lacey's, eggs tonight. She's sitting on 7 and they all look like they are developing embryos with only one setting of red alert alarms for me. Silly egg has the air cell at the wrong end. I've never seen that so far. It's not exactly at the point, sort of offset from the pointy end. Any suggestions or should I just call it quits before I am facing another impossible hatching?

 

[perchie.girl]

I had to give up most of my farm animals when we moved back to FL to help my aging relatives. It stunk. All those goats and bunnies and chickens i had been raising for years, gone. I still miss them. But i am not getting 100 goats and 250 chickens again. It is a lot of work and not easy if you need a farm sitter. Plus it is expensive.i want guineas to kill ticks, some Speckled Sussex and some Polish. I am getting small breeds of rabbits, already have 2 Holland Lops. And those Nigerian Dwarf goats. Maybe 6 or so. I think i am better to spoil small numbers of animals than just collect all different sorts. I designed a coop and priced the building materials at $600. It will probably run about the same for a good goat shed. But if i get materials a bit at a time it should not be too bad and i can get pallets and such to cut back costs. I have been looking on Craigslist for cheap or free Windows to use. My husband is going to Canada to visit relatives and i am staying here with the cat, kittens, dogs and rabbits. We do not know anyone yet to care for them but i am content to stay here and chill while he runs off.

Welcome to Old Folks.....

 

[ronott1]

I had to give up most of my farm animals when we moved back to FL to help my aging relatives. It stunk. All those goats and bunnies and chickens i had been raising for years, gone. I still miss them. But i am not getting 100 goats and 250 chickens again. It is a lot of work and not easy if you need a farm sitter. Plus it is expensive.i want guineas to kill ticks, some Speckled Sussex and some Polish. I am getting small breeds of rabbits, already have 2 Holland Lops. And those Nigerian Dwarf goats. Maybe 6 or so. I think i am better to spoil small numbers of animals than just collect all different sorts. I designed a coop and priced the building materials at $600. It will probably run about the same for a good goat shed. But if i get materials a bit at a time it should not be too bad and i can get pallets and such to cut back costs. I have been looking on Craigslist for cheap or free Windows to use. My husband is going to Canada to visit relatives and i am staying here with the cat, kittens, dogs and rabbits. We do not know anyone yet to care for them but i am content to stay here and chill while he runs off.

Me too! except I have a full time job. My Wife is a Teacher and she is off on her summer trips. She will not be back except for a coupe of pit stops until Aug 3

 

[microchick]

Welcome Capricorn Farm! Pull up a rocking chair and sit a spell with us oldsters!

 

[pennyJo1960]

join our crazy little thread Welcome Capricorn farm

 

[Beer can]

The interesting thing about that first picture is there's no houses all up and down the coast. It is beautiful.

Don't think I 'got' what you ment at first thinking we're in the 'boonies' 'out in the sticks' Lol! The houses...yeah I know what you mean now. The Cannonsville reservoir is basically a monster lake, most lakes are loaded with lake front properties. Not there, woods and nothing else all the way up over the next set of mountains. All DEP land, NYC buys everything they can in the watershed, old farms to little chunks, have a huge purse and snatch what they can up. Land acquisition program to ensure good water they don't have to spend $$ building a filtration system. Not very popular here. The towns/counties do get tax money from them but it's based on bare vacant land value, no development, no homes no logging no bluestone quarries...
They do allow us access to hunt fish and hike on the land, try to appease us peasants.

 

[Beer can]

63 posts behind...

 

[Beer can]

Where's the search thread option on here? I'm still lost...
Was digging through cupboards looking for alum powder for my hotdogs garlic koolaid concoction (catfish bait, alum toughens them up)
and came across the shagbark hickory that snapped off in a storm. If it went the other way would've had no home or family.
Planted hops on what was left and marigolds around.
Little girl pointing same one that's a professional fishermen. Gosh, probably 10 yrs ago or more?
Pics of old pics, our scanner/printer broke.

 

[Wickedchicken6]

I had to give up most of my farm animals when we moved back to FL to help my aging relatives. It stunk. All those goats and bunnies and chickens i had been raising for years, gone. I still miss them. But i am not getting 100 goats and 250 chickens again. It is a lot of work and not easy if you need a farm sitter. Plus it is expensive.i want guineas to kill ticks, some Speckled Sussex and some Polish. I am getting small breeds of rabbits, already have 2 Holland Lops. And those Nigerian Dwarf goats. Maybe 6 or so. I think i am better to spoil small numbers of animals than just collect all different sorts. I designed a coop and priced the building materials at $600. It will probably run about the same for a good goat shed. But if i get materials a bit at a time it should not be too bad and i can get pallets and such to cut back costs. I have been looking on Craigslist for cheap or free Windows to use. My husband is going to Canada to visit relatives and i am staying here with the cat, kittens, dogs and rabbits. We do not know anyone yet to care for them but i am content to stay here and chill while he runs off.

I find staying home is just so much easier...lol. (The animals are usually nicer than the relatives anyway...lol.) Wait...what? I didn't say that out loud, did I?

Welcome to the thread!

 

[Wickedchicken6]

We had patients that were hog farmers. Bless them, they would come into the office, scrubbed and with clean clothes on, take their shoes off at the door and you could still smell pig on them. They were some of my favorite people. You have to have a lot of the right stuff to be able to wake up every morning and go to work at the hog confinement.

YIKES! Yellow legged wasps! Nasty mean aggressive angry hateful vicious Godless motherless sons of Satan each and every one of them. Thanks to them stinging me, actually attacking me when I wasn't even near their nests, I now have to carry an Epi Pen with me 24/7. Hate em almost as much as I do Marek's disease and Lyme disease.

Wicked, I'm glad I'm not the only person on earth with Operator Error syndrome. Thank you so much for your words of encouragement concerning little Burd. Nothing wicked about you, girl, you are an angel.

I candled my latest broody, Lacey's, eggs tonight. She's sitting on 7 and they all look like they are developing embryos with only one setting of red alert alarms for me. Silly egg has the air cell at the wrong end. I've never seen that so far. It's not exactly at the point, sort of offset from the pointy end. Any suggestions or should I just call it quits before I am facing another impossible hatching?

I didn't know that's what it was. I've never seen anything like those before. Our wasps are usually more substantial...like a UFC fighter. I was outside and they're swarming around. That's awful you have to carry the Epipen now.
Have to deal with that asap I guess. Thank you for that info!
I feel bad for all the people that had to deal with me when I worked at the barn.
There's no getting rid of that smell...lol.

Lol...back at you.

The egg? If it were me, I'd set it knowing it may be heartbreak in the end.
(Darn curiosity!) ......"What doesn't kill you makes you stronger?"