tonights feature night is by Robinhood,livestock on the farm

larry@stinescorner · Feb 25, 2016

Robinhood would like to see or hear about livestock on the farms,,cattle,chickens ,hogs etc,,And would also like to hear about particular breeds or varieties and why you chose them.

Robin Hood · Feb 25, 2016

I worked on a dairy farm in Stroudsburg, PA, growing up in the 70's. The farmer had about 42 Holsteins and always kept 1 Jersey. I asked him about the Jersey one day with which he explained: the Holsteins were the queens of milk production - more pounds than any other breed, and the Jerseys were highest in butterfat, but a lot less in pounds. He said that the Co-op paid for both pounds of milk and butterfat content. I remember that we tried milking three times a day for about a year. There was more milk produced but it didn't offset the labor cost. He started out with 3 Surge milkers dumping into a dump station and eventually installed a pipe line. He had a 2010 JD (I was always jamming gears), a David Brown 1200, and one of them beautiful Red Ms with nfe. When your 15 years old, that was a pretty neat tractor. He always drilled it into my head to never step off the tractor until the pto shaft stopped spinning. To this day, I always wait for it to stop, while I think of him. A hard working man for sure.

TomH in PA · Feb 25, 2016

Do deer count as livestock? Because we feed enough of them.

JRSutton · Feb 25, 2016

funny - I started at that picture for a minute thinking "man those are some skinny cows"

Buckeye · Feb 25, 2016

Have about 185 beef cows. Sell some feeder calves and feed out around 100 fats a year. Black Angus, Hereford, Charolais, Gelbvieh, Simmental. Have some donkeys around for coyote and dog protection.

formerly ny bill · Feb 25, 2016

some of the big herd (125 milking cows) that i have developed since 1961 (when i got the first heifer)/1980 (when we started here on our own), picture taken when we sold them in Jan 2015.

second picture is the heifers when we started milking again in Oct 2015. the heifers (now 49) are all daughters of cows in the big herd. all the animals are registered holsteins, most with pretty high genetics.

Dan in Ohio · Feb 25, 2016

Totally for the Grand Kids benefit, give the eggs away. Kids liked the Red ones best, seemed little afraid of the Barred Rocks.

rrlund · Feb 25, 2016

A few.

Brown Swiss · Feb 25, 2016

My brother calls them the Jerseys! LOL

Cory Schmidt · Feb 25, 2016

A few of the critters around

Herefords, since the last time we sold out(got rid of everything in barn), did some rebuilding(pens, timbers...) in the barn, found a herd and been breading, shipping(auction) and having beef in freezer with same herd family(different bulls) since.

Looks like the spoiled brats don't get fed the way they are around that bale.

Chickens old "Heinze 57" variety, collect eggs neighbor hatched them out for us, some bought in

Geese normally out wondering yard, penned up for punishment(they kept trying to cross road....I know you want to :razz:

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The last two pigs, brothers. We were going to ship these garbage disposals, but when we put them in with their dad it was to much scrapping so we separated them and kept the youngins for now.

Dave H (MI) · Feb 25, 2016

OK then, here are some of the show stock we have taken to fairs and specialty shows over the years. Some of these still live on the place even though we are retired from showing for now. In no particular order...black Dutch rabbit buck was state champion at the MSU show. Narragansett turkey who was champion at every show he ever entered. Nigerian dwarf kid...we do not show those. Speckled Sussex hen...egg layer, not shown. Embden and Pomeranian geese, also Tolouse not pictured...those are really big geese and won often when shown.

centralilbaler · Feb 25, 2016

Chester Whites were last years crop
Reason behind the choice: showpig rejects from a neighbor

JD John · Feb 25, 2016

My Girls, 35 head of Holsteins.

gab · Feb 25, 2016

Best I can do, Buster.

Bruce from Can. · Feb 25, 2016

I have some Jersey cows. We can now tie 105 head, but they are pretty little heads.

db4600 · Feb 26, 2016

Brown cows sure are pretty.

vscummins · Feb 26, 2016

A few of my cows moving to the corral for shipping on my horse , and horse resting after checking cows on summer pasture

vscummins · Feb 26, 2016

Checking cows in the winter

Fawteen · Feb 26, 2016

Kept sheep for a bit over 20 years, sold off the last of them this past Spring.

These are Katahdins, a hair sheep that doesn't need shearing. Started with Shetlands in 1994.

Have kept both laying hens (Black and Red Sexlink, Barred Rocks, some mutts) and meat birds longer than that.

ditchwitch · Feb 26, 2016

That 2nd picture is priceless. Its like they wanted to have there picture taken. If they could have only sad ChEEEze.

The Dukester · Feb 26, 2016

Fine looking cows you have there, I'll bet you have a pretty high RHA too.

vscummins · Feb 26, 2016

A very pretty cat

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