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Totally understand. Thanks for even thinking of it. :)

Absolutely agree. The US will be Venezuela soon.

Van Buren county

That's fantastic. We live in a farming community but few kids want anything to do with it anymore. Half are buying into the whole government funded lifetime college student. A good portion are fine collecting food stamps, Medicaid and disability for a stubbed toe, while many others decide to...

The pens are about 8x10 and the fenced areas are about 6x8. It takes hubby and I about an hour for the goat and sheep pens each, just shy of an hour for the pig and about 20 minutes for the peafowl. And we are older and have health issues. So a bit over 3 hours. Had she worked hard it would have...

I guess she did too. It was odd when she called. She said she was more interested in learning about caring for goats than she was about being paid because she was thinking about getting goats and wanted to see if they were a good match. Then after she got here she told us she'd had goats...

I don't know. I'm dealing with a contractor now like this. He didn't work a single day last week. His truck broke down. He was sick. He had to go to Indiana to pick up his son. His wife planned a family day in Chattanooga. Excuse after excuse. He pulled his whole crew another week to go work...

She did one pen in 6 hours and I told her she had to go because we had to leave. Six hours for one pen is ridiculous. What a waste of my day. We did make dinner though and had a great family night.

Ok. Will see how that goes.

I went and told her to just pile it in the open field a bit away from the pens. Once it dries up I'll burn it off. She said she likes the animals and planned to spend all day here. Her problem was it was just harder labor than she expected. It is hard but I don't want her here all day. Not to...

our first goat was given to us by a customer when he was 10 days old. He napped in our bed with hubby during the day and slept in a kennel at night by the bed. Hubby loved it. As long as he stayed diapered it was fine. But by 2 months he was learning to take his diaper off so we had to put on...

Looking for input of paying for farm help. I'm in a very rural area of middle TN. Most people here make federal minimum wage. $10 an hour is considered good pay for hourly labor workers. We needed someone to clean the sheep, goat and pig stalls. They have winter bedding so it's definitely the...

Rofl! Sheep was in his bed.

I'd say large cat / small dog based on the size of our surprise twins. I have to ask though. If she was a bad mom the first time, why in the world would she be bred again? Our girl rejected hers the first few days and we had a hell of a time holding her in place to let them feed before she...

Thank you for the info. Guess I should have clarified. There is over 1000 acres at that farm and multiple herds. The one that had been with her left. I'd just never seen a single cow left anywhere. They graze in large areas, but you can tell it's one herd. So when all the others left and went...

Thanks. We had to run one of the dogs to the vet this morning and it was great to see that empty space in the pasture. Lol

Thanks everyone. Added location. :) No crunching sounds. Will try compresses and bandaging. Swelling is a bit better today but it's definitely still bothering him. He's being so good though. After Bo the pushy bottle ram we had in the house, a quiet goat is a nice change.

So yesterday morning we had to run some errands. On the way home we noticed a cow down in the pasture up at the corner. Something just didn't seem right so we got out and walked to the fence. She wasn't moving at all and all the other cows started walking away and left her. Now we would LOVE to...

Our year old buckling had a swollen knee a couple days ago. Since he was limping I brought him in and confined him in a small area to give it a rest. Figured I'll give it through the weekend and if no improvement I'll run him to the vet Monday. In the meantime is there anything else we can try...

Thanks. I'd asked a goat mom friend as well and she said that too. Phew!