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Gotta love the daaaaad in the background. I meet with male colleagues online when they’re working from home and “daaaaaaad” is a frequent background noise lol….
what a good baby! is that the purple ointment spray I see on his leg? I bought some and used it on my horse on one of their scrapes. It's been a year. My horse is still purple 😂
yeah, when he decided he wanted to come up to the house, he scrapped his leg pretty good so along with other stuff I used the purple spray because we had it on hand. I guess we'll be able to identify him from a distance for a while. :) But he has healed nicely so it did it's job.
@@thegreathites that’s a good thing. I live on a farm with my grandparents. (When I first started being able to help out and wanted to help out I was abt 4-5yr old) we *HAD* Over 100+ chickens. (We didnt kill them for food, we raised them for eggs ) but we had always raised chickens, We also had dogs, Peacocks, ducks ect. Recently we decreased in chickens due to a unknown source of predatory animal (and coyotes, possibly wolves, foxes, bob cats, Lynx ect) We now have 10 chickens, 4ducks, 2dogs (guard dog (bluetik coonhound ) & a chorkie -(chihuahua and Yorkie mix (we got him free from a family member) ), 4 adult cats, 5 baby kittens, 4guinea pigs, 16 wild rabbits -(rescued 2 of them from being burned alive mother abandoned em then they grew up we released them back in our yard and they had their own kids), lots of fish. So growing up on a farm seeing 2 different species of animals get along is a wholesome experience. It’s not everyday people see 2 or more different species of animals get along. Enjoy the rest of your day. 😁 (Sorry if I talked way to much I have adhd and get sidetracked a lil)
yes and no. it really depends on the fencing. when we use mobile hotwire fence, they do tend to attempt to escape if we don't use the really tall ones. but when we use cattle panels, they don't even try.
there are two breeds In this video. the Big ones (the black and white ones) are Mangalitsa, and the smaller brown ones are a combination of Big Black and Julianna Pigs
We are raising primarily for our own food, but also to sell when we have more than we can use. We are working on getting away from the little brown ones, mostly due to temperament, the Mangalitsas are much friendlier.
There's a guy, who has made a ram pump, from what I understand for under a few hundred bucks, that shoots water up a hill for an entire farm plot. I can't remember off the top of my head, but he's a fellow homesteader. Maybe check out or search for the ram pump guy. 🤘
we keep toying with the idea of cows, but we need more infrastructure than we have at the moment. I follow just a few acres farm, and his philosophy, that I try to follow, is that you should only do what you can afford to. So we are trying to stay within that. I think at this point it it slow and steady wins the race, that is the path we are trying to take.
@@thegreathites Each time you add a new species, it is a challenge and now you have a new canine and bunnies. Slow and steady sounds good. I am not sure if you ever met Rhonda Carpenter, an author I got to know. She and her husband started by renting a meadow for grazing and now, the herd on it are theirs. Their cows are calving now and Rhonda calls them “money hitting the ground”. LOL
Yeah, talked to Rhonda a few times. I've never met her but I do follow her. I've thought about renting land, but we'll have to see what happens. As you said, we have our hands full at the moment and I think it is best to "level off" and see what happens.
They do try, and occasionally they get out. but this is only temporary. as soon as they finish tearing up that area we will be moving them to a more permanent area
