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    Goat Treat Recipes?

    Forgot to add.... The holidays are always special times for our animals when it comes to treats.... Our girls never ever ever eat all the candy they get from Halloween, Easter, Christmas, Valentines, Birthdays, etc. etc. So we save up the 'hard candies' for the animals... Our pigs LOVE the...
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    Goat Treat Recipes?

    I don't have any particular recipes that I follow/make....I don't necessarily give all at once, or even huge amounts to free feed on...These are used as treats, and to help keep calm during certain process...(hoof trimming, pregnancy, shearing/clipping for showing, and sometimes just...
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    Greetings from Central Wisconsin

    I sooo would love to have solar power for our property... Would have to be big panels I'm sure, as we have a farm, shop, house, and all the out buildings...Animals Animals Animals everywhere...lol... It's still something that we are very serious about attaining someday. (either that or we need...
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    Farm Name and Herd Name... What is yours?

    Our farm name is.... "Run-A-Muck Ranch"........ As for herd names... We don't really have specific names... We have tried the theme names.... flowers, foods, movie characters, cartoon characters, opposite names(boys with girl names, girls with boy names), singer/band/songs, etc. etc... But in...
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    Greetings from Central Wisconsin

    Welcome aboard... I am sure you will find lots of helpful info on this site... We live in a small little 'unincorporated township', one stop sign, nothing within 25 miles any direction.... I love it out here...We have Amish around us as well, not as much as you probably, but a few families...
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    Another Wisconsinite

    Welcome.... I am sure you will find lots of helpful info on this site... I love it.... Was a member for a LONG time, then lost our home internet, so was MIA for about a year and a half... Never was much of a posted, but LOVED LOVED LOVED this site... as well as the other 'sister sites'...
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    Guinea pigs?

    Well I've been absent for some time on this site(as well as BYC)...anyway....Spring is in the air here lately...I'll blame it on that..lol Our girls each have a guniea pig. 1 male 1 female...Kept in seperate cages. Not breeding them. Anyway they seem very healthy and happy. We do give them...
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    Newbie Here! Pigs VS Cattle for profit and home?

    I'm in Northern Wisconsin. About 30 minutes south of Rice Lake, or 45 minutes North of Eau Claire.
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    If you had to do it all over again, what would you change?

    I don't really think they're is to much that I (we) would do differently, other than having more knowledge before we got the animals. All our animals are healthy, and happy...so the care is wonderful. IT's just the knowledge we have learned along the way, that I would of loved to have more of...
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    Learn something new everyday!!!!

    Honestly I'm not to sure....looks kinda like it, but it was sooo quick that I didn't get a really good look at the bee itself. I was more focused on the fact of how fast it ate the fly....
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    Learn something new everyday!!!!

    Not sure where to post this, so I figured here would work... I never seent this before, or even knew that they did this.... But I was sitting outside just a minute ago, and a bee of some sort was flying around my head.... Well he finally found a spot to stop--upside down on the ceiling of our...
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    Newbie Here! Pigs VS Cattle for profit and home?

    THis is what we do...... It might not work for other, but it works for us..... We get pigs in March usually paying around $50 each for them. Our girls raise them for 4-H. Come time for the fair in June they are over 200 pounds (225-275 usually), the girls put one in the auction for the fair, we...
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    Do sheep grow beards?

    I've never ever seen that in any of my sheep....so I can't really answer your question, but I have never heard anyone say their sheep had a beard either. From the picture it looks more like an absess to me, but again, I'm not an expert and really just guessing..... Will be interesting to find...
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    Livestock Guardian Dogs?? Should I get one? (more pics)

    ok now i've read your post...... I will still say YES.... getting the dog as puppies will also help you get used to the dog as he gets larger....the Great Pyrenese are WONDERFUL dogs...I love ours, they are big goofy block heads at times, but they keep ya laughing too....Ours have done a great...
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