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Some are graded on the degree of mytonia. It gets confusing I've seen pure bred that don't freeze, but I've also seen commercial x kids by high mytonia bucks that still freeze up. I've found it hard to sort out meat type mytonic, improved meat type, from silky fainters, other pet types, and...

It sounds like alot of people are selling down more cows and heifers. Everything I can gather is a pattern bad policies rooted in the Nixon era, coming home to roost.

I kept my coonhound in a clean 10x20 pen with a nice doghouse, clean hay and an old horse blanket. She did just fine. Keeping an animal calm after, is always a bit nerve racking.

I can work goats better than a garden these days, 😂. Moving a permanent net wouldnt be to bad but I can't install parameter fence anymore. I just can't be down on the ground for that long. This rocky, mountain ground really was alot worse than the midwest to garden in though.

Yeah, We're shopping in that Omaha-KC area but it'll likely be next winter if we can swing it. I have to get a business plan together and get practical. I'm to beat up from life and working in the sale barns to put my efforts into hoofstock anymore. Rethinking the game plan vs. the goals I've...

I power washed for a commercial hatchery that hatched 10k commercial Longhorns for replacement pullets, every 3 days. It was honestly really gross. I'd love to be back in the chick game right now but I'm stuck in an apartment up north for a few more months.

Honestly, I really think the freight strikes drove up the price of distribution and shipping. Nothing against truck drivers or railroad workers, even airline workers... but companies are now trying to replace retail stores with online only or pick up systems. 3 years ago, I move to a desolate...

Most pellets only have about a 3 month shelf life and degrade every time they're moved. A straight hay/legume pellet vs. one that contains grain, fillers, additives will handle different as well.

Disbudding is so much less traumatic. Segregation is so much better. I agree that it's a vet job.. but I'd consider selling out of either polled/disbudded or horned goats. I like horns if mothers are birthing on pasture and the fence is tight enough. But in a close contact, barnyard setting, or...

I wouldn't breed him. I never bred rex but I knew many breeder who culled with no mercy for harlequinized castor. Color breeding alone will get most serious rabbit people in a tizzy. I started with broken/solid breeds and quickly moved to the most dominant colors as it was so much easier to...

That's totally great for supplementation and probably brings down their bagged feed consumption. Another booster is duckweed, especially if you can dry it full of the various aquatic larva!

0, just looking to get money in the meat goat market for now. The 0 acres and watching the market for the last 15ish years is kind of the reason. If I cant physically own them I want to invest in someone's operation.

Well educated about the husbandry needs of various livestock and even exotics like the tx doll. Range bred meat goats in the southern midwest, are what I'm specifically looking at. More specifically a good established herd with someone wanting to graze on beef pasture as the graze different...

This might read weird and hard to follow but I'm a broken down sale barn cowboy from the midwest try to get the smallest of homesteads to leave and impression on my 2 kids and 4 steps. I'm not sure if anyone has seen the new investment firms putting private investments into farm equity holdings...

I spent most of my life in Kansas, in and around ag thinking the same things. After moving to a desolate part of north central Washington I can tell you that buying agricultural land in Kansas (depending on the part of the state) the number one priority should be to make that land produce, for...

Oh no! Admittedly I was alot more active a few years ago and havnt frequented the forums as much lately. I hope everything is ok.

I've been looking at neocaridina shrimp, mystery snails, and fancy guppies because they're all prolific with deacent trade and wholesale options. Having raised show rabbits, I know cull rates are high when you're trying to breed quality. It just dawned on me that ducks and chickens would love...

Yeah I've bred mice and rats for the pet and pet food industries before. I prefer rats but they take some intensive labor. Recently I found that people are trading species and color morphs of isopods (pillbugs/rolly pollys) for insane amounts of money. They reproduce at different rates and are...

I've bred, raised, worked with; alot of different animals for jobs and independently in alot of different settings. It all depends on the species, your setting or facility, and you priority niche. I could make a table but I see this thread is a couple years old. 😅

Has anyone tried raising aquarium fish, feeder rodents, insects or invertebrates, as part of your operation? Cant I see what you do with them. It just dawned on me that alot of those culls can be used as super nutritious poultry feed, unless you are growing something like meal worm specifically...