winter shelter

[picklespickles]

i have some ideas for a longer term shelter. but billygoat has torn apart stuff before. so. hmmm. well, we'll see. might build his a little at a time.

 

[johnnyjack]

sup pickles . hope u had a good day.

 

[picklespickles]

thanks. a little tired. burned a lot of brush. i started to say "no work" but, uh, yeah, that's not true. hope your day was good too.

 

[johnnyjack]

pickles i got a question for ya you got ur place fenced in or do they all just stay around the house.i mean ur animals. i have to keep mine up to many dogs roam freely around here.got 2 new jersey calfs i may end up popping off a boxer that roams here hes been know to chase our cows. the calfs are 5 weeks old. they are twins. chickens stay up all the time unless i go out about an hour befor dark and let them out ,then they go back in to roost, i lock them in again.its a shame . it use to not be that way when i built here .over time everyone has cut up the land an sold it . houses everywhere.and u know how people are they get a dog dont feed it dont care about it and they roam for food at night.

 

[picklespickles]

i sympathize with you a lot.

my property is all fenced with tall solid fence except for the front yard. my back and side yards are fenced seperately. so, five yards in all though a small property. maybe half a acre. hope to buy adjoining properties a little at a time.

a lot of free roaming dogs around here, too. peole don't fix their animals and then let them run around. so just more and more and more.

for me, dogs have been a bigger predator worry than anything else.

i see coyote scat on the street, etc. but never had a problem. see hawks in the sky, but never problem. not saying wont' be. knock on wood.

but, darn those DOGS.

i have always wanted a cow. can you tell me stuff like how much cost to raise, can you raise just one or need two (for company like goats, etc.), about how much room they need, etc?

thanks.

wish you luck maybe one day getting the money to buy more property around your land or money to buy super good fences.

oh, and that all the bad puppies get lead poisioning.

oh, i just looked out and no more snow. billy goat was looking through the fence and the boy goose was over there and they were hanging out. i love stuff like that.

i imagine your property is way bigger than mine!

this is the first place i've owned, though, so to me it is as big as the world.

 

[Sherriekim]

picklespickles, I just have to say... I love reading your posts! You crack me up and make me smile. I get such a vision in my head of what you describe and you tell it like it is and you ain't putting on no airs (is that the right expression?). You rock! Keep posting, I'll be looking for the next installment of the Billygoat, dog, goose and who knows what else story.

 

[paganfish]

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I agree...as I sit here because the darn kitten woke me up...

I hadn't read this post and read it from start to well...thus far, this morning. LOL! How entertaining. Yes, Pickles is very descriptive about her adventures with goats, dog and geese. My dogs are indoor dogs and I too close my chickens up at night. They are ready to kill me in the morning unless I let them out...NOW!

Keep it up Pickles.

Pedro ~:-V

 

[johnnyjack]

well cows . u can have just one. we buy the dairy bulls when they are born.then we snap on the little rubber band if ya know what i mean.makes them get bigger. we payed 100 dollars each for theses. as for feed ,its realy exspencive because of the drout here in sc and hay is hard to find. we went to nc and found enough to get us through winter. spring and summer they eat the grass in the 5 acre pasture, no hay.we buy grain feed for them and its like 6.50 a 50 lb bag now maybe for one cow, two a mounth. then if ya have it cut up its 35cent a lb i think now . lol i think it maybe cheaper to buy meat at the store lol.but they are alot of fun for the kids. and then we get the meat also.

 

[picklespickles]

so how many bags of grain does a cow eat a day? probably with me more as i only have neighobrs pasture AND this is desert, so it would probaby take ten of ours to make one acre of yours.

i love your referecne to rubber bands.

so, you buy a young animal for a hundred bucks, feed him for a year and then eat? is that basically how it goes?

they eat lower quality hay than horses right? i think of the yellow kind as cow hay and the green kind as horse hay. is that right?

thaks for peole for reading my ideas/life/situations/fears/expriences about my so called farm life. this is really the happiest year of my life and i went through so much hell to get here. amazing to hear that my retelling of my daily life is fun for other poeople. yeah!

 

[picklespickles]

okay. this section will be called meet pickle's animals in the interest of getting the back story out of the way:


first, we meat MR QUACKERS. mr q was an easter duck who was let go by an owner who probably thought it was a good idea to put a brand new baby duck into a public pond. fly little baby your'e free type thing. only, it was drown little duck cause you ain't got the oils yet to swim with.

so, his companion died and whoever it was who put them out skedaddled. one passerby saved quacks but was doggoned if he was take some duck home. so he was given to a couple of college students sitting nearby who kept him a while then realized what the heck are we doing with a duck.

so, there was an ad which i impulisviely answered and was the first person to respond. so i went to visit mr q who was originally named albert, but didn't seem to repsond to his name that much. so i changed it to the much more trite mr quackers.

if you sing the rubber ducky song from sesame street, with subsituting his name for the rubber ducky, he will do a dance for you, give you a smile and practically jump in the car with you to go home. he loves that song and to be sung to.


in later editions, we meet the norwegian farm lady who helped me set quackers broken leg after the rooster had his way with him, we hear about how the rooster went into the stewpot the very next day. and we hear how the cat to this day licks her lips when i say "rooster."