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  1. Simpleterrier

    Baymule’s Journal

    People hear have used shingles for fill like that here. U could buy them by the dump truck load and they would be cut in strips. And yes shingles will still let water up threw and down threw them. Has anyone seen a flat roof with shingles. The answer is no. Because shingles only shed water if...
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    Hmm never had a credit card in my life never wanted one and my credit is great. House interest loans has dropped about 1% in our area and for me the price of materials at work is going down even below pre COVID price sheat steel was $27 went to $47 now is $21. Oreos was $8 something a pack and...
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    Baymule’s Journal

    -5 out yesterday with 40mph winds. The animals don't mind it is around 0 today and windy. My old Airedale would sleep out side under a pine tree in weather like this. It's so windy that the whole inside of my barn has an inch of snow in it. Got woodburner going it's about 78 inside. Just a...
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    Coffee anyone ?

    @Bruce I haven't either we have had some cool looking clouds in the last few years
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    Coffee anyone ?

    Yep we have bobcats now. We were told we didn't have any until a couple of years ago they told us we couldn't shoot them. How can we shoot them if their not there? Also we have black cats about bobcat size with long black tails. Dogs get chewed up by them and the vets claim racoons did it. I've...
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    Baymule’s Journal

    Sorry to hear this feel for ya
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    Hello from Pure Michigan BYC&SSS member.

    Stay away from boer goats. If your looking for meat if you want to breed and raise your own look at other meat breeds kiko or Spanish or something different. Boers are over priced and need grain and babied. If u just want meat find a goat dairy and buy weathers. Run on grass maybe a little grain...
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    How do you keep a female dog from getting pregnant on her first heat?

    What @farmerjan is saying is true. And I'll try to sum up what we both are saying about the finances. We don't and can't afford to lose money but most don't make a living raising animals. I raise my own beef and pork cheeper than what I can buy it in the store and I turn a small profit on the...
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    How do you keep a female dog from getting pregnant on her first heat?

    If u don't want puppies lock her up in multiple layers of protection. One row of fence might not stop the act. On the other side if u wanna breed and produce puppies to sell down the road then go ahead but just think it threw and understand all sides. And to those who say u don't make money...
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    I know and am friends with a guy who grew up in Timbuktu
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    Baymule’s Journal

    Nevermind $339 for 330' roll of red brand just found it
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    Baymule’s Journal

    I just looked sheep and goat fence is 459 for 330' at out tsc it not red brand or ok it was beakert or something like that
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    Add 10 to 15 gas is 4.89 and one place is 4.94
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    Gas went up 40 cents to 4.79 a gallon on Tuesday
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    Baymule’s Journal

    Thanks for the pics @Baymule I'd like to see it some day
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    And that is why I like @Baymule. So to sum up what I said what farmerjan said and baymule said. There are young people who don't wanna work there are older people who are done working that was the largest work force who didn't produce as many babies and I agree u can't pay for them don't have...
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    And u might ask how can I say this. This is what I see from my own life. From work to church to family and friends. This is what I have seen. Maybe I'm wrong or maybe it's just me my family and my area. But I don't think so.
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    So I've been thumbing threw this I have to agree with alot that is being said I agree with alot of it. But what is the conclusion of it all. Who created the young ones who don't know anything who voted in the people in the gov?? Why is the work force down and dropping? Just keep reading and...
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    Raising beef

    My bil has a tie stall barn and can only milk so many so he usually breeds his heifers to a beef breed Hereford or waygu cause he knows people who have seman cheap or free then breeds his better cows to good stuff. Also the cows in tie stalls live alot longer and they go out to pasture. He has...
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    Raising beef

    Good Holstein bull calves day old are bringing 200-250 around here I don't know what colored calves bring.
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