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    What is the best way to socialize new piglets?

    You done did good. As they get older you will have to use more force to keep them off. Just watch how they treat each other when they are playing or fighting for food. They won't be nice or delicate and they don't get their feelings hurt. Pigs are not good animals for cuddles. They will love...
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    What is the best way to socialize new piglets?

    Your welcome. Not to worry, all piglets act like you burned them with a torch when you try to touch them. Its instinct. They will get less sensitive as the days go by.
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    What is the best way to socialize new piglets?

    First thing...VERY important! Stop feeding them from your hands. In just a few weeks these pigs will be growing like out of control weeds and within weeks they won't know the difference, or care, what is your hand as opposed to what is feed and which pig is going to get it first. You could lose...
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    HELP! Calf favors one teat. What to do?

    I was going to ask if you are using bag balm. Don't just dab a bit on the cracks. Take a small gob and liberally coat every teat and then rub your hands together so they have a film of grease as well. You don't want your hands soaking up the balm. Do this every single time you milk. It will...
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    HELP! Calf favors one teat. What to do?

    You will need to keep an eye out for mastitis but if you can keep the pipes running even a little, it will help. She may tend to dry up a bit from lack of getting the milk out, but its simple supply and demand. The calf will be getting older every day and will take more every week and help build...
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    HELP! Calf favors one teat. What to do?

    Take a deep breath, relax. Leave the calf to do whatever it wants in the nursing department. You will need to milk the other 3 quarters a bit maye even the one the calf likes. Newborns simply don't need that much. There is a lot of edema in the udder makes it harder to milk. Makes the cow...
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    Getting a premee 3 day calf- How much to feed ** photos added **

    I have difficulties with hay being an issue as well. Right now, I have a 4 week old calf who is nibbling hay along with mom and the aunties. She really doesn't do much more then nibble so maybe thats the secret. All calves that are outside with older stock eat at a very early age. I believe that...
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    BYH Animal Count - 856 Critters As of 2/16!

    4 horses 18 LB pigs 6 Jerseys + 1 Jersey/Black Angus calf 17 Belted Galloways 20 Black Angus 1 Black Angus/Beltie cross 3 Jersey / Beltie crosses #'s subject to change on an ongoing basis.
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    Dexter Vs. Jersey

    Another plus for the Jersey cow/ Galloway B. cross. Galloways are polled. No horns.
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    crossing a jersey and a dexter??

    My Beltie bull managed to breed my full size Jerseys when he was 16 months old and half their size. Just remember one thing: where there is a hill, there is a way.
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    artificial insemination process

    I don't know about the tanks, but I pay $3.00 month for storing 10 straws at a semen storage facility. When I am ready to use it, I just have to give a few weeks notice and they will transfer it to the local AI tech. for my area.
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    Thankyou Texas Some snow pics Horses too

    Royd, Looks like I got more snow then you did. It was a real pain doing the chores this morning. I knew I wouldn't be able to find the pig feeders, but I at least expected to find the pigs! The drifts were bad. Up against every door on the place it seems. I had to shovel my way out to milk...
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    Separating calf from dam...to do or no to do?

    I keep my calves on my Jerseys. If you don't, you will have to milk 2x a day no matter what. You will also have to feed the calf 2x day no matter what. Its easier if you can teach it to drink from a bucket, but you still have to feed the calf 2x day. If you leave the calf on the mom, you will...
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    What addition are you most excited for this year on your farm?

    I insulate all my water troughs. Sides and bottoms. First I wrap heat tape around them; 4 rounds per trough. Metal troughs work better then plastic. Up until now, I haven't plugged them in as there was only a thin skin of ice and the critters could break it themselves. I have the same temps as...
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    Third trimester of pregnancy

    I always plant my winter corrals with something. Been planting turnip, kale but will look into radish and sugar beet now that you mention it. I have decommissioned corrals this year that will be heavily planted with heritage dint corn, pole beans, squash, and pumpkin altogether. I found that...
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    selling chicken eggs

    Yep, the famous I can buy them at Wallmart for a $1.50 or the Amish for $2.00. What are you doing in my driveway then? I have some pigs willing to eat expensive eggs. You have some driving to do. I also have a great pickled egg recipe.
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    Third trimester of pregnancy

    My cows came from the foothills of Alberta 4 yrs. ago. I have had them long enough to get rid of the aggressive ones and all of their offspring and also the poor milkers ect...Did not keep any heifers from such cows either. They are not dairy cows that have been handled so to speak, but there is...
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    selling chicken eggs

    I sell mine for $5.50 a doz. $7.00 for duck eggs. There is an additional charge for the cartons. Kinda like bags at the store. The price will be going up if people want to keep getting eggs. I am with Royd. People need to stop giving eggs away for less the cost of producing them. I find it hard...
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