frustratedearthmother
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Now that's just wrong - bribing a man like that!Denim Deb said:You can come over to my place any time you want. I'll even make brownies.
Mississippifarmboy's Living Simple Journal, Ready for a Fresh Start.
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mississippifarmboy
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Been a long day, so headed to bed early tonight.
Em had an interview this morning, then we picked up a land plot map from the seller of the land we are trying to buy. Starting the ball rolling on the figuring and the paperwork.
I went around the electric fence with a weed-eater, worked on the tractor shed a bit and culled the last of our ducks so we can haul anything we aren't keeping for breeders to a swap at TSC Saturday morning. Down to I think 38 breeder ducks now of six different breeds. (Or will be once everything in the cull coop sells)
I haven't done much, but after being sick for three months just the little I have done has shown me just how weak and soft I really have gotten. I feel like some big feller whooped me good.
MFB is sore....
Night everyone.
Em had an interview this morning, then we picked up a land plot map from the seller of the land we are trying to buy. Starting the ball rolling on the figuring and the paperwork.
I went around the electric fence with a weed-eater, worked on the tractor shed a bit and culled the last of our ducks so we can haul anything we aren't keeping for breeders to a swap at TSC Saturday morning. Down to I think 38 breeder ducks now of six different breeds. (Or will be once everything in the cull coop sells)
I haven't done much, but after being sick for three months just the little I have done has shown me just how weak and soft I really have gotten. I feel like some big feller whooped me good.
MFB is sore.... Night everyone.
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Night. Take your time to recover and don't try to do too much! It doesn't pay in the long run. 
frustratedearthmother
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Hope you slept well - now get up and get busy!
But seriously, Deb is right - don't over do it. (see - this is what you get for starting a journal - lots of women to make gentle suggestions (a.k.a nag) at you!
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Also, hope Em's interview went well.
Question for you: What do you do with potbelly's? Do you breed 'em or eat 'em? I've heard that they are a pretty good lard hog... but, I don't know much more about 'em.
Our TSC is having an animal swap on Saturday. I've never participated. Do your animals have to have health certificates?
Geeze - I'm sure being nosy this morning, huh? Sorry...
TGIF!
But seriously, Deb is right - don't over do it. (see - this is what you get for starting a journal - lots of women to make gentle suggestions (a.k.a nag) at you!
)Also, hope Em's interview went well.
Question for you: What do you do with potbelly's? Do you breed 'em or eat 'em? I've heard that they are a pretty good lard hog... but, I don't know much more about 'em.
Our TSC is having an animal swap on Saturday. I've never participated. Do your animals have to have health certificates?
Geeze - I'm sure being nosy this morning, huh? Sorry...
TGIF!
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mississippifarmboy
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The swap meets around here, as long as they are in the state, you don't need any kind of health papers. Just a sort of informal affair.We did get our NPIP certification so we can show, sell and ship our birds and eggs out of state, but so far haven't gotten far enough along to do anything out of state.
The potbelly pigs we started out raising for pets. Now we sell what we can at pet prices when they are weaned, otherwise we just put the extras in another pen and raise them to eat. They only get up to around a 100#, but are fair meat and lard pigs, just in a smaller size. Our breeders we feed mini-pig feed and we limit their diet so they don't get overly fat or large as that causes infertility issues. The ones we can't sell and raise to eat are feed scraps and grain just like our regular hogs. We can usually sell enough as pets to where we can have the ones we eat free and clear, so like getting free pork.
I had a rough night last night and feel bad this morning, so I don't mind a bit having someone(s) telling me to slow down. I'm pretty hard headed, so I need that sometimes.
Anyway, I have a lot to face today, so keep me in your thoughts and prayers.
The potbelly pigs we started out raising for pets. Now we sell what we can at pet prices when they are weaned, otherwise we just put the extras in another pen and raise them to eat. They only get up to around a 100#, but are fair meat and lard pigs, just in a smaller size. Our breeders we feed mini-pig feed and we limit their diet so they don't get overly fat or large as that causes infertility issues. The ones we can't sell and raise to eat are feed scraps and grain just like our regular hogs. We can usually sell enough as pets to where we can have the ones we eat free and clear, so like getting free pork.
I had a rough night last night and feel bad this morning, so I don't mind a bit having someone(s) telling me to slow down. I'm pretty hard headed, so I need that sometimes.
Anyway, I have a lot to face today, so keep me in your thoughts and prayers.
dragonlaurel
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Taking it a bit easier now will help you heal. It's worth it. Too much, too soon can come back to bite you in the rear.
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Ok, I followed advise and mostly rested today. 
I did have a man come buy 15 of the started and POL chickens out of the cull pen this evening, he is on the fair board, so I sold them to him way under what we usually sell them for because it's for a children's program and 4-H. He did say they would post our cards at the fair and maybe send some business our way, so that will help.
So now I only have 11 more chickens to take to the swap tomorrow, all males - buff Orpingtons, a Turken, a salmon Faverolle, 2 spangled Russian Orloffs and some Heritage rose comb Rhode Island Reds. Also will be taking 10 chicks from this year's final hatch that are around 5 weeks old. (A couple of Turkens and spangled Russian Orloffs). 7 black east indie ducks, one silkie duck drake, 6 Cumberland Blue Runner ducks, 16 Muscovie ducks, three guinea pigs and maybe some pigeons.
We'll still have the flock of red shouldered Yokahamas and a good quad of Dominiques to sell later, but don't have room to take to the swap since I sold the horse trailer.
I still need to do my final culling on the buffs and reds, but I'm going to give them a couple of more months since they mature so slow.
I spent most of the day just stressing and trying not to. I also have a guy next door baling hay. I know I swore I'd never buy round bales again, but he said he'd deliver and stack them where I wanted them for $15 a bale, so I guess I'll try and buy at least 10 or so bales. Just mixed grass hay, and second cutting at that, but beats nothing I guess. I have around 50 bales of square bales in the hay shed, need to buy another 100 or so to fill it up before long too. I should have plenty of hay though once it's all in to get me through the winter plus plenty of extra if we run across some cheap calves this winter.
Em's already picked out some of our new cattle and we haven't even bought the land yet! Looks like we have a trio of Pineywoods cattle we need to go look at soon. And a free horse. It does look pretty nice though from the pictures. I had mentioned I wanted to get a couple of draft horses to work the farm with and this guy looks like he'll make a good one.
Hope everyone is having a pleasant night. I think I'm headed to bed, maybe read a while. Night all.
I did have a man come buy 15 of the started and POL chickens out of the cull pen this evening, he is on the fair board, so I sold them to him way under what we usually sell them for because it's for a children's program and 4-H. He did say they would post our cards at the fair and maybe send some business our way, so that will help.
So now I only have 11 more chickens to take to the swap tomorrow, all males - buff Orpingtons, a Turken, a salmon Faverolle, 2 spangled Russian Orloffs and some Heritage rose comb Rhode Island Reds. Also will be taking 10 chicks from this year's final hatch that are around 5 weeks old. (A couple of Turkens and spangled Russian Orloffs). 7 black east indie ducks, one silkie duck drake, 6 Cumberland Blue Runner ducks, 16 Muscovie ducks, three guinea pigs and maybe some pigeons.
We'll still have the flock of red shouldered Yokahamas and a good quad of Dominiques to sell later, but don't have room to take to the swap since I sold the horse trailer.
I still need to do my final culling on the buffs and reds, but I'm going to give them a couple of more months since they mature so slow.
I spent most of the day just stressing and trying not to. I also have a guy next door baling hay. I know I swore I'd never buy round bales again, but he said he'd deliver and stack them where I wanted them for $15 a bale, so I guess I'll try and buy at least 10 or so bales. Just mixed grass hay, and second cutting at that, but beats nothing I guess. I have around 50 bales of square bales in the hay shed, need to buy another 100 or so to fill it up before long too. I should have plenty of hay though once it's all in to get me through the winter plus plenty of extra if we run across some cheap calves this winter.
Em's already picked out some of our new cattle and we haven't even bought the land yet! Looks like we have a trio of Pineywoods cattle we need to go look at soon. And a free horse.
It does look pretty nice though from the pictures. I had mentioned I wanted to get a couple of draft horses to work the farm with and this guy looks like he'll make a good one.Hope everyone is having a pleasant night. I think I'm headed to bed, maybe read a while. Night all.
Denim Deb
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Wish I could get decent RBs for $15! I've found some for $25-orchard grass-and feel lucky to have found that! Last year I saw people advertising them for $100! 
frustratedearthmother
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Glad you took it easy, but stressing is hard on the body.
Aren't round bales both a blessing and a curse? If you've got the equipment to move them I guess they are much easier to deal with - but at my place they are hard to deal with AND my critters tend to waste a lot. Not that it's all bad - cuz wasted hay means mulch for the garden. But, $15 dollars a bale! WOW! Around here they get almost that much for ONE square bale at a feed store. Speaking of feed stores - TSC is having a couple good sales to go along with the critter swap today. I'm gonna have to head over there later today.
Congrats on selling some of the pullets and double congrats for giving such a good price to the 4H-ers.
Exciting news about the Piney Woods cattle - good luck on getting those!
Aren't round bales both a blessing and a curse? If you've got the equipment to move them I guess they are much easier to deal with - but at my place they are hard to deal with AND my critters tend to waste a lot. Not that it's all bad - cuz wasted hay means mulch for the garden. But, $15 dollars a bale! WOW! Around here they get almost that much for ONE square bale at a feed store. Speaking of feed stores - TSC is having a couple good sales to go along with the critter swap today. I'm gonna have to head over there later today.
Congrats on selling some of the pullets and double congrats for giving such a good price to the 4H-ers.
Exciting news about the Piney Woods cattle - good luck on getting those!
