A different kind of herd animal?

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To Alaskans these are a type of ‘herd animal” and a hobby and a great food source.
we like to take between 12 and 15 a year for our own personal use! These are all King Salmon except for the last one. Thats 8 gallons of spot shrimp tails, enough for two families for the year!
 

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Not only a great food source, but fun to catch too! People pay tons of money for fishing trips and it's just a normal part of life for y'all. What Blessings!
 

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To Alaskans these are a type of ‘herd animal” and a hobby and a great food source.
we like to take between 12 and 15 a year for our own personal use! These are all King Salmon except for the last one. Thats 8 gallons of spot shrimp tails, enough for two families for the year!
Those are actually pretty, most of them have super funky looking heads (in the pictures I have seen). I seem to remember that the heads on the males get weird when they are heading to breed, are these out of breeding season and that's why they actually look like normal fish?

Can you tell I know next to nothing about Salmon?
 

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Unless landlocked, all Salmon leave the stream they were born in and go out to sea for 2 to 7 years. During that time they feed and grow to maturity before returning to the stream of they’re birth and are referred to as “feeders”. Once they return home and enter that stream they are referred to as “spawners” and they do what salmon do completing the cycle.
Those pictured are feeders up here from West coast Canadian streams.

until they enter fresh water that last time they are brite (we call them chromers) and look just like this. When they come into the fresh water that last time they stop eating and they’re body uses up stored fat to
sustain them on that last journey and during the breeding time after which they die, decaying back into the waters they came from.

during this time they develop first the hooked jaw then the different color changes etc until they perish.

It’s a God thing for sure and a source of interest from the part about how they are guided to the home stream by the smell of the water all the way to the time you smell them on the barby!

typically, chum and red salmon have the most pronounced distortions.
 

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And then i realized, i’ve not mentioned my largest “herd”! Biologist refer to them as a Micro herd? Well, i can run with that and am offering this clip as entertainment only.
in the photo, you’re looking at the big bopper; a device i built to generate compost tea. Simple principal, poly drum with a regenerative blower which continually aerates the content till “the herd blooms”. Add the necessary elements and a couple microbe sources, turn er on and within 24 hrs. I’ve got a useable product. The violent water action breaks the microbes loose from whatever they’re on and as they swirl in the soup they find the many added food sources and then begin to breed. In a very short period the numbers go into the innumerable range at which time the tea is applied and the microbes find themselves living the good life in my garden soil.
Well on the day the picture was taken i had used rabbit poop as one of my microbe sources and was quite surprised to see that mess the next morning! I like to think im pretty good at this and have made numerous batches over the years without incident but apparently the fresh manure
is a much richer source than anything id used previously. Anyway, that was the defining moment in deciding to get the Rabbitry going, after i cleaned up the mess.😉
 

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And then i realized, i’ve not mentioned my largest “herd”! Biologist refer to them as a Micro herd? Well, i can run with that and am offering this clip as entertainment only.
in the photo, you’re looking at the big bopper; a device i built to generate compost tea. Simple principal, poly drum with a regenerative blower which continually aerates the content till “the herd blooms”. Add the necessary elements and a couple microbe sources, turn er on and within 24 hrs. I’ve got a useable product. The violent water action breaks the microbes loose from whatever they’re on and as they swirl in the soup they find the many added food sources and then begin to breed. In a very short period the numbers go into the innumerable range at which time the tea is applied and the microbes find themselves living the good life in my garden soil.
Well on the day the picture was taken i had used rabbit poop as one of my microbe sources and was quite surprised to see that mess the next morning! I like to think im pretty good at this and have made numerous batches over the years without incident but apparently the fresh manure
is a much richer source than anything id used previously. Anyway, that was the defining moment in deciding to get the Rabbitry going, after i cleaned up the mess.😉
Lol! Looks like your microbes decided to take a hike!
 

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This is literally my “back yard herd”!
Mom and last years calf, mowing off the cranberries and a few birch shoots. It’s amazing to me, how good something can taste that eats sticks!

A few minutes later the calf was seen eating on the white spruce, then they moved in closer and began sniffing around the Cherry / Apple tree cages. Thats when i broke out the umax semi auto bb gun and hurried her along with a few 6 round burst. The bb’s have little or no effect on something that size but combined with the sound, it’s a good deterant.
 

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