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[Stumpfarmer]

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There is a lot of demand for goat meat, if you don't want to eat it yourself it will be easy to sell wethers. My sister thinks I should start breeding goats, but... no: easier to handle than cattle but stronger than I am, overall. She was surprised that I couldn't carry a steel fence post today, I suspect she has no understanding of just how lame I am these days.

 

[Rare Feathers Farm]

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There is a lot of demand for goat meat, if you don't want to eat it yourself it will be easy to sell wethers. My sister thinks I should start breeding goats, but... no: easier to handle than cattle but stronger than I am, overall. She was surprised that I couldn't carry a steel fence post today, I suspect she has no understanding of just how lame I am these days.

Oh yes. The Hispanic population here LOVES goat meat. I won't be doing the killing but will help with the cutting up and stuff. That doesn't bother me like having to kill something does. I will probably not have any trouble selling the extra females either since they will be purebreds. The wethers will be the meaties.

Oh and MIL bought four turkey poults.

Two bronze and two whites.

 

[Chicken Rustler]

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WHAT ???

Somebody else has a Bday !! Happy birthday Hallerlake.

Sure glad you didn't catch wind of the fact that I just had one! If you tease me about being 50, I might go ask my kids for that straight jacket!

A big "Thanks" to cloverleaf for transporting eggs half way today! I'll say it for Rob, You Rock!
DH and I got to have dinner together by ourselves! Like a real date! No kids!

Well since I missed the clue when we met up today. I will just say belated happy birthday.

 

[Chicken Rustler]

Part of the reason that goat meat is growing to be so popular is that it is not known to be considered "sacred" by any religion like many of the other meat animals are.

 

[SadieSue]

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Hey wait, didn't you just win the auction for some of RFF's eggs too? Whoo hoo - you have been scoring some super nice eggs! Congratulations!

 

[RedReiner]

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why would it be miserable for them? I have seen them and I thought I saw a coop for them? maybe its different now. they have a coop? can get out of the weather? I know they have a bunch of different little things around the restaraunt.

 

[cheryl98117]

I havn't caught up yet, and I havn't finished reading the article yet. But. Have any of you seen this yet? I also don't know how much this would effect many of us, but I thought I would share with you all.
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2014924059_tax01m.html?syndication=rss

 

[Stumpfarmer]

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Well, in that nobody's forbidden to eat it. The biggest increase lately, though, is among foodies who want to cook authentic Italian, eastern European, and north African cuisine; my virtuous Grandmother raised what looks in photos to be Boer goats to sell to her Italian neighbors, so it's sort of what goes around comes around.

Which reminds me, I meant to ask you: are there any dairy farms left in Ethel, or have they all been wiped out by the whole herd buyout? I remember any number of cold wet April and May mornings running up and down Highway 12 and the Jackson Highway from one dairy to another practicing dairy cattle judging with all the other 4H and FFA kids.

 

[Stumpfarmer]

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You have to buy a whole lot of chicken bedding- hundreds if not thousands of chickens worth- for that to be a matter of interest and impact, but it's just another example of the old saying "The farmer buys retail, sells wholesale, and pays the freight both ways."

 

[broodytood]

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Well, in that nobody's forbidden to eat it. The biggest increase lately, though, is among foodies who want to cook authentic Italian, eastern European, and north African cuisine; my virtuous Grandmother raised what looks in photos to be Boer goats to sell to her Italian neighbors, so it's sort of what goes around comes around.

Which reminds me, I meant to ask you: are there any dairy farms left in Ethel, or have they all been wiped out by the whole herd buyout? I remember any number of cold wet April and May mornings running up and down Highway 12 and the Jackson Highway from one dairy to another practicing dairy cattle judging with all the other 4H and FFA kids.

My Grandpa Leo Kaiser had a dairy out that way for years!