Coffee anyone ?

[drstratton]

One county over we are having a distemper outbreak in raccoons. Every LGD I ever had hated raccoons and engaged them immediately to the death. Raccoons can carry a lot of diseases, I don’t like them.

Yes they can. We weren't taking any chances with it.

 

[Baymule]

I don't care about singers, movie stars or entertainers lives. So what. Reality strikes them too sometimes. All their success doesn't insulate them from everything, sometimes it draws the unstable to them. I wish for no one to get hurt, but really, not worth all the news exposure.

 

[Weldman]

Been there and it's crazy, beautiful, but too many people. I didn't know you were a wetsider...lol

One of the places I lived when stationed at JBLM for TDY.

 

[Weldman]

One county over we are having a distemper outbreak in raccoons. Every LGD I ever had hated raccoons and engaged them immediately to the death. Raccoons can carry a lot of diseases, I don’t like them.

 

[Blue Sky]

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Looks like a former roommate.

 

[RR Homestead]

Good afternoon all!
The final beef cow calved today. She wasn't due until friday. She normally goes right on her due date. A lovely bull calf. Now we're just waiting on the jersey to calve. The two new graft calves are doing great so far. The jersey heifer is doing well fostering them for now. She's not exactly happy about it but she's being really good considering. Looking forward to getting them grafted onto their "mom".
We've been communicating with a trucking youtuber I had reached out to. I just asked him for advice on finding someone trustworthy and reasonably priced to haul the tractors and cattle equipment to MO and he's actually discussing doing it himself and youtubing it. I'm not sure how I feel about the youtubing part. We aren't high end ranchers. Think Clampetts. We'll see how it goes. He really seems like he wants to help us at least get it figured out.
It's a beautiful day today. 77* right now and sunny. Will have to weigh, tag and castrate the new calf this evening. Then get them moved to pasture. I am feeling so hopeful for the future right now. I feel like the move is about to really get going. Sure feels like God is putting things in place to make it happen. Will just keep praying on it and trying to do our part. Leaving the rest to God. Supposed to be weather at home today. Will be watching the live stream. Hopefully nothing big happens there.
Y'all have a fantastic rest of your day!

 

[fuzzi]

I will be watching as well. My daughter's family and my middle sister are both under threat in Illinois.

 

[RR Homestead]

I will be watching as well. My daughter's family and my middle sister are both under threat in Illinois.

If they need prayers for safety please just ask! Happy to put some up on their account.

 

[fuzzi]

If they need prayers for safety please just ask! Happy to put some up on their account.

Thank you!

 

[fuzzi]

Keith's ancestors were wild.

Not metaphorically. Literally. The domestic goat descends from the Bezoar Ibex, a wild goat native to the Zagros Mountains of Iran and the adjacent highlands of Turkey and Pakistan.

The Bezoar Ibex lives at elevations of up to 4,000 metres. It navigates vertical cliff faces. It has been photographed on surfaces that would require technical climbing equipment for any human to access. It survives on vegetation: scrub, thorny plants, coarse mountain grasses, that would be inedible to almost anything else at altitude.

It was domesticated approximately ten thousand years ago.

The domestication process was not, by the standards of most livestock species, particularly thorough. Cattle were selected heavily for docility and reduced flight response over thousands of years. Sheep were selected for reduced aggression and increased herding instinct.

Goats were selected primarily for milk and fibre production and the ability to survive on marginal land, and not much else was considered, which is why goats retained a degree of independence and problem-solving ability that most domesticated livestock had bred out by the Bronze Age.

Keith is the ten-thousand-year result of this process.

Keith climbs barn roofs because his ancestor climbed the Zagros Mountains.

Keith opens gates because his ancestor navigated terrain without pathways.

Keith eats thistle, bramble, dock, Japanese knotweed, Steve's bindweed, and the moss off corrugated iron because his ancestor extracted nutrition from the thorned scrub of Iranian highland at 3,000 metres in January.

The fence, from Keith's ancestral perspective, is a minor inconvenience.

The gate is a gentle slope.

The barn roof is a modest incline.

Steve's new fence is not yet solved, but Steve's new fence is not the Zagros Mountains.

Keith has not been to the Zagros Mountains.

Keith does not need to go to the Zagros Mountains.

Keith has Devon.

Devon is enough.

Keith is on the roof.

Keith is thinking.

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