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does any one raise livestock ?

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swindave

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just curious, does any one here raise livestock?
i still feed out a few steers every year, and have a few chickens,
but thats all the farm animals i have left after selling the cow herd,
so whats walking around your farm?
 
I have a few
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Gives my wife something to do.
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Gym memberships are so expensive.
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I run a cow/calf operation. I also background the calves over winter on hay and silage, run them on grass as yearlings, then finish them the following winter.

Lon
 
Down to 20 Angus brood cows, an Angus bull and 3 steers for the freezer, 4 Guernseys and a Jersey, milk cows, 1 Hereford brood sow, 40 brown egg layers and 10 bee hives. Only things that make money are the milk cows and the hens.
 
I raise a few hundred every year,,
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the ponies are my neighbor I just sell him hay to feed them and grass to graze on

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Geese I get 500-1000 every day
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I looked shows you to be mid Wyoming, so my question is are the canada geese what one calls resident geese or do they migrate and come back thru ever year. Here in Tennessee we used to have thousands come thru ever winter but now luck to see 600 700 a years. They have just learned to stay up north.
 
Sold all the cows last spring. Down to a herd of cats. Sparkles raised two litters this year - 13 kitties. She may have to go visit the vet before I run out of money buying cat food.
 
I had an Angus cow/calf operation for 20+ years. I sold off the herd about a year and a half ago and kept three old cows that were some of the first ones born on the farm. They are all about 20 years old and I told them when I sold the herd that they had paid their fare. I believe that among the three cows, they gave me something in the range of 35 calves for the operation. Some twins, some calves after 11 months since the last calf.

I also have one Thoroughbred mare that is merely a pasture pet at this time. Lots of wild turkeys and scads of deer.

It's a good life.

Tom in TN
 
Bruce that looks familiar. My uncle had a jersey and holstein milking operation so I spent many a day pitching hay and shoveling stuff (lol). It may be weird but I kinda of miss the smell of that stuff.
 
We have a herd of about 40 meat goats, a few hair sheep, a dozen feeder cows. 2 horses, a mule, jackazz,turkeys,ducks,chickens,guineas rabbits,peacocks, 2 great Pyrenees to guard them all and some free rang barn cats. Big market here for meat goats. This year any form of poultry brings big money. I just hatched a dozen turkeys and got a dozen ducks in the incubator.
 
I have 2 pigs raising for the freezer. 150 laying hens to supply my roadside stand. Farm fresh eggs for sale. 21 cats and 1 dog.
 
Just curious what breed of chickens you have? We switched to black sexlinks and really like them. BTW thats alot of cats!
 
Theres been cattle on this farm since 1903. Never any big herds but we did milk around ten by hand some years. I've only got 8 of the expensive pets now. Its something to keep busy with when I'm not in the cropping season. Heres the big old red herd bull I"ve had for many years.
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Bought 9 bred Hereford heifers 48 year ago and have had cattle ever since. Down to around 45 stock cows now. Two have cancer eyes and one with a turned up toe.
 
I run about 550 ewes and their lambs in the spring.Keeps me plenty busy.Somebody has to keep the coyotes fed.lol
 
they do not stay all winter,, but from spring through this time of year they are around, just seen another big flock in formation heading a bit farther south a couple days ago, they Love the Hay Barley I grow when its 1 to 3 inches high, they graze on it like sheep,, the pics I posted here they are eating regrowth from the hayed crop i had in those strips,,
 
11 Highland cows 1 bull 9 Curly} 2 calves 2 dogs 10 p-i-a er cats. Maddy our Lab mix is sleeping on my chair.
think I will take the hint and head up stairs.
Sue B's dad (Gene) will be 89 tomorrow we will head over there for a visit Sue made vegtable beef soup.
 
somewhere between 250-300 laying hens, 3 Jersey milkers, about 29 heritage turkeys, cats, oodles of cat food ( mices ), 20 beehives, and gold fish in all the troughs

Oh, and a parish of 150... do they count?

I think technically, I'm s'posed to be retired...



Fr. Bob
 
22 sim-angus (10 calfs, 10 cows, 1 big mean nasty bull, 1 hold over from last year for the freezer) , chickens, 7 cats, 2 dogs, 4 kids (human), 1 wife, 1 tired guy!
 
3 boys 3 girls ages 18 down to 11. The first 4 are adopted from Guatemala, the last two from Ethiopia. We are blessed.
 
8 milk cows(jersey cross) 1 bull 1 steer 2 heifers.
140 ewes
1/2 dozen cats and there kittens
50 lay hens that will be butchered for dog food soon
3 great pyreenese dogs with 9 puppies.
1 border collie
9 children 8-23 years old. Oldest is a school teacher so needs not help on the farm much anymore
Second oldest shears sheep in spring summer. The rest all help at home.
And best of all 1 great wife that keeps all of us fed
She also home schools the children this year.
 
Feeder pigs and laying hens. Hoping to add some sheep and dairy steers come next year.
https://www.facebook.com/Mangata-Farm-100231005122151

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I've got about 20 chickens right now. Jeff has the dairy herd, of course, and his daughters have around 10 goats. The usual compliment of dogs and cats.
 
Are you a contract grower for someone like Tyson or like do you know now what you are going to get
fro the next group that comes out of the house.
 
(quoted from post at 03:56:19 11/24/20) Is this where my Kentucky fried chicken comes from
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Well I am in Kentucky so in a way yes
Actually most of the ones we raise are for Chick-fil-A and the rotisserie chicken at Wal-Mart
 
Well for one, they're delicious. Honestly, we just raise them knowing that they have a purpose. No reason to not love on them and try to give them their happiest life in the mean time.
 
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