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jon f mn

jon f mn

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How about some livestock pics today.


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Great pics! Grandkids are adorable.

I like that little pig in the right front of pic... with the black and white patchwork face. :)

What is the part of the fence like an upside down U with vertical bars? Looks too short to have been stanchions... back in the day, was it some kind of 'kick-guard' when milking?
 
I miss the crazy peacock. Tried to find the picture with a heifer trying to graze the peacocks tail feathers but only found this one.
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I have a couple
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Some pasture pals
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My milking cows. 62 cows in the two rows you can see, and there are another 43 stalls that arent in the picture
I had lots of photos of cows and tractors and such on my phone, but the phones battery quit taking a charge, so I have lost all of those pictures.
 
Good point on the rooting. When we had pigs, Dad ran a hot wire just off the ground around the inside of the fence. Don't recall them ever getting out.

That'd be a neat detail to do on my carpet farm!
 
Don't know if pigs are the same, but my dad always said to put the board on the
inside of the post on a cow fence. That way if the cow pushed against the board
they wouldn't be pushing against the nails.
 
I found out I have quite a few. I'll load a few of them.

A few of the cows
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Two of our grandsons feeding bucket calves
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A couple steers by the barn
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Some cattle up at the bunk
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My wife's walking buddy
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Some future mousers
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I haven't farrowed hogs for a while but that picture brings back a lot of memories. The heat lamps glowing, the sounds of nursing pigs, the smell of fresh bedding. I always thought the farrowing house was a nice place to be on a cold winter day.
 
Do you have a model railroad in
conjunction with your carpet farm?
Your photos look realistic. Does the
scale match up to HO in model
railroading?? H0 is the most realistic
scale in railroading, in my opinion.
Be awesome if HO was the same scale as
your carpet farm. Other railroad
scales look un-realistic and dis-
proportionate (in my opinion), and
therefore wouldn't like right in your
layout I wouldn't think.
 
I started out in model railroading in the early 80's. Discovered that I enjoyed the scenery work MUCH more than actually running trains and trying to keep the electrical stuff working in a damp basement.

I model in 1:64 which is the common small farm toy scale. It's called S scale in railroading. Not real popular with model railroaders (WAY less so than HO) but there are some structures, figures and scratch building supplies available in S or 1:64 which is handy.

HO is 1:87 and is noticeably smaller if set side-by-side with 1:64, but larger structures and some scenery stuff will work if positioned carefully. The house and barn on my diorama are actual HO scale structure kits.
 
He's been saddle broke for quite awhile.Dont ride him as much as I should.Feel bad about that.
 
I likewise had a model railroad in the basement (not anymore). I don't recall having any electrical problems from damp basement air. I do recall having trouble with the rail joints being loose and causing bad connections in the track (HO scale). I remember biting the jointers with my teeth when putting track together so there would be good tight connections throughout the track. Seems like I had a little trouble with power packs conking out. But if so, I'd just buy another train set. Then I'd have a new power pack plus extra track and rolling stock. If I had a long staight away in the layout, I'd use those three foot pieces of flex track, and use them as straight pieces. That cut down on rail joints and derailments. I didn't use flex track on the curves. It wouldn't stay put unless nailed down (which I hated because you'd ruin it taking it back up for a bad joint connection), and it was hard to cut the inside rail shorter and get the length just so so.
 
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