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Where the heck is RA?

Hope he didn't electrocute himself with that new welder. :shock:

Come to think of it he did mention his puter was on it's last leg. :?

He always had great pictures and a neat perspective on life. :D
 
The last time he posted he was starting calving. He is probably busy making a calving camera for the barn and lots! He has to work a bit harder to keep up sometimes :) I also hope everything is fine at his place even the goat and the pig! He is a fine young man and I sure enjoy his happy outlook on life. :cboy:
 
Ya'll give him wayyyy too much credit. He probably has been curled up taking a nap or some other lazy proposition. :roll: It couldn't be he was really busy making leanin' H a new sign and if said sign doesnt arrive soon out here i may actually die of anticipation and excitement!!!!! :shock:

I hope he gets his priorities in order pretty dang skippy and starts posting again pronto! :D
 
:D .....thanks everybody! You make it hard to go to lurk statis.... :D

I just went and found an image site that my computer doesn't seem to mind. I still have lots of stuff going on with my computer... :( . Can't even get on this site sometimes.

I've just been living the dream!!! Still too poor to catch myself on fire or shock myself welding.... :D ...saving up for it though!

a few pics.....


















































 
Oh..and if anybody that reads this board is afraid of getting goats or admitting they have them.....you get use to the hate mail and prank phone calls. Your body also builds up quite a tolerence for the daily beatings and rollings that come with it from people that hate them. It's worth it! :D :D :D

I seen a list of why people hurry up and get out of goats or hate goats in my travels the other day and laughed.... :D .
 
Well now that's quite a slice of life!! :clap: :clap:

What a terrific set of high quality pics!

And don't you EVER let anybody put you down because you're man enough to go against the crowd!

You're my hero, RA, goats 'n' all! :tiphat:
 
Thanks for sharing the great photos and the ones with the goat were just fine. The calves look very good are they all out of your horned Hereford bull?
Are you going to get you another meat pig this summer? Have you been enjoying that home grown meat on these cold winter days? Now that you have questions to answer you will have to come back and visit more often! :lol:
 
I'm glad BMR 'goated' you into posting again. He's rather good at that, isn't he???

Your calves are fat and sassy and your part of Missouri looks like heaven--
sunshine and dry ground for those calves. That's something to be thankful for!

I love the rabbit, he's just too cute!

No dog pictures this time tho. :cry:
 
Ya know, if you would take the time and put those pictures into, what I think they call a coffee table book, you would never have to worry about money again. You have quite an eye, and its a shame you aren't using it. :evil:

did I sound mean enough?
 
Thanks everybody!... :D

The calves are all out of my Hereford bull there. I don't like looking at him, but don't mind his calves. They are tiny when born and seem to grow pretty quick. This year is oddly my biggest set of calves out of him to date, but probably are tiny compared to you all's calves.

One of his calves. Sorry for how this cow looks! Faster horses and I had a discussion and thought it best to wean at 5 months and save the cows. I had to wean all of them at 5 months this year. It really did the cows good.



One of his heifers last year...pictured at 4 months old. I had to wean her at 5 month last year, but was able to wait a little longer on the others.


Trying to learn all I can to make everything go better on my cows and calves!

That bull was nuttier than any bucking bull I'd had ever brought home... :D ....but tamed down quicker than any bucking bull under my bull taming downer program. He's real nice to have around. I have to keep him in a good pen for 2 days after I take him from the cows....after that, he can be kept in with very sorry fence if needed....doesn't offer to mess with anything.

Most definitely doing another meat pig!!!....two this time for ourselves. Going to be getting them here as soon as we can. This meat has been awesome to say the least!!! Not much left though... :D . I can't believe the flavor! Really neat to have eggs from my chickens and sausage, bacon, ham steaks, etc for breakfast! ..lots of warm fuzzy feelings! :D

Turkeys will be here the week of April first, along with more ducklings and chicks....to add to the Old MacDonald thing I have going.... :D . I've never been so happy as I am right now! I'm learning a ton! No time for sleep though... :D ...and I'm getting more into gardening. Planted more stuff in my worlds smallest green house there yesterday... :D

I haven't been letting out the dogs much yet....well not to where I get any good pictures. I try to keep the stress level at zero on the new momma cows. Even though my dogs don't mess with the calves, just all them running around bothers them and I don't like that.
 
I might be able to make a coffee table book someday with 4x6 pics or 5x7 at the most??? I might be going to do something if I can take ok pics with a higher powered camera. I might be too busy feeding critter all day long for the rest of my life from now on.... :D :D :D
 
I haven't been letting out the dogs much yet....well not to where I get any good pictures. I try to keep the stress level at zero on the new momma cows. Even though my dogs don't mess with the calves, just all them running around bothers them and I don't like that.[/quote]

I raise Silver Gray ( AKC calls them Silver Sable ) German Shepherds as well as cattle - - - My dogs go with me when I go thru the cows and the cows know them and the calves learn to chase the dogs.

I feel this has been a great asset to my herd as a stray dog or coyote will have a stampede after it. I have seen a couple of town dogs come thru and watched 2 die from the cows. But my dogs know they are not to bother cows or calves - - - If I'm using them to move cattle I only take one or two at a time and they have been trained to back off from a cow with a calf unless I tell them different.

The man who has bought my calves every year for the last 10 works his cattle with Border Collies but knows how mine are and it takes about a week before he can let his dogs inside the fence because my calves will chase the dogs in mass!
 
Thanks, Nicky! These ducks have been great! I knew nothing of ducks until I got these. Man are they messy! After much work, they have finally accepted me as their new mommy and are no longer absolutely terrified of me....lol. Quite the opposite now....can't wait for the others to get here!

Thanks for the story, George! My calves have always chased my dogs too. I just keep the dogs away during a little certain grace period here. I'm half done calving on my whoppin' of a spread here... :D . I had one in feb...then the rest just here rescently. It's funny...the dogs bark if I don't let them out while I chore, especially my Micki dog.... but they don't bark to be let out after the calves start hitting the ground for awhile... :D
 
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I'm going to be singing that all day now, jodywy.... :D

Baby pygmy/nigerian cross goats coming spring of 2014! :D :D It's going to be a long wait. :D
 

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