Misfitmorgan's Journal - That Summer Dust

Baymule said:

That is some beautiful slabs of bacon!

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Thank you very much Bay!

That is one thing that never goes to waste around me....if nothing else I'll eat bacon sandwiches....do ya smoke the jowls?....best bacon Ever....

All this talk about bacon made me go by the meat store and buy a 10 pound box of bacon.

CntryBoy777 said:

That is one thing that never goes to waste around me....if nothing else I'll eat bacon sandwiches....do ya smoke the jowls?....best bacon Ever....

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We have before, this time I wasn't there when DH was breaking down the quarters and he decided to grind all the head meat. Still have not made shoulder bacon or english bacon....its on the list.

Mike CHS said:

All this talk about bacon made me go by the meat store and buy a 10 pound box of bacon.

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Very sorry...but I am sure you will use it well.

Todays heat index is forecasted to be 102F..... So much for that cool weather.

Logged on to 300 alerts....then I looked saw all but 5 were from @Senile_Texas_Aggie liking my journal posts

Hope everyone is well. Not a lot of news here. We will be pulling off the hereford's piglets as it is time to wean them and send in the registration paperwork. Stumpy is prego and starting to make a milkline.

Hereford and Sarah should be put back in with the boar the 3rd week of october which should give us end of February piglets for 4-h and hope for good weather.

The rams and bucks will be pulled off the herd any day now since the nights are chilly. We plan to bred them at our friends house since he has pastures to separate them. We are looking to all the goats and sheep bred by 09/20-09/24...we shall see. That gives us kids/lambs on 02/13-02/17 which is where we need them for 4-h market.

Oh in other news the sheep wether we sold to be shown in the bigger fair in the next county over did well. He got 1st in his class and 6th overall out of 28 other sheep. Pretty good for the kids first time ever showing. Because he did well they have already asked for 2 more lambs next year to show and also 2 piglets so yay!!

His starting weight when we sold him at 12 weeks old was 67lbs according to the 4-h scale. His weight at the final weigh in was 109lbs. Seeing as that was 4 months to get him from 67lbs to 109lbs I believe if they do get lambs from us next year we are going to try to help them with their feeding program because he should have pretty easily made 150+lbs in that time.

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AWESOME!!

That is great. Part of your farm plan is to help 4-H and FFA kids with affordable project lambs and pigs. I think y'all are on your way. Word will get around that you have good stock and don't rip the parents heads off for the $$$.

Yes, Miss @misfitmorgan, I am now stalking you! <insert evil cackle here> I am on page 103 of your journal.

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