Porkchop48 - Long overdue LONG update

[porkchop48]

Very nice!

I'd be tempted to give Ditto cocci meds. She has 'the look' and being weaned early could certainly cause stress, which is a contributing factor.

I would be more than happy to do that... Got a linky to the meds/ treatments?

She is a crawny little thing. Good berries and loves her grain. Just recently got her to start going into the field to eat more browse, grain etc.

It won't hurt her though if she does not have it?

 

[Roll farms]

I'd almost promise you she does, but no, it won't hurt. You could always have a fecal ran to verify what issues she's having.

http://www.backyardherds.com/web/viewblog.php?id=2607-coccidia-goat

I personally prefer DiMethox. I order it through Jeffer's Supply.

 

[porkchop48]

Ordered.

The 40% injectable.

Thank you

 

[porkchop48]

Ditto and Bailey have both been started on Cocci meds. I figured if I was going to treat one I might as well treat them both. Ditto is finally hanging out with the rest of the herd. She is now eating browse and hay which she would not really eat before. Starting to pork up a bit.


I had a pair of pekins that did not sleep in the coop at night. They had taken to sleeping in the barn with the goats or right outside the door. The hen had gotten stepped on a few weeks back but was getting better. Still kept laying her daily egg though. Noticed there was no egg this morning. Just now got back from a walk in the field with the dog. Thermo managed to find what was left of her. Just one leg buried halfway in the dirt gully... What the heck would have done that?

Picked up a Bourbon red tom today. He is awesome, a little ragged but I see his feathers are starting to grow back in. Can wait to see him in his glory after getting them feathers back.


Now to tell the story of how my day went yesterday... Grab some popcorn might take some reading.

Over the weekend I picked up an awesome speckled banty of sorts. Cute little bird. HAs 3 chicks ( well 2 now one drowned) any ways. Monday I needed a relax day after work so I went to a local auction with a friend of mine. Seens this awesome banty spotted rooster. My neighbor ended up buying it and then I got it. Feisty little thing. After drawing blood on the neighbor I get the bird home with out too much hassle. Now I have to pen him up. Great.

While carrying the crate across the yard he gets out. I am not NOT even trying to catch him. I figure he will find a spot for the night. After locking the rest of the chickens, ducks, geese, etc up I pu ton some True blood and settle in to get my Sookie/ Eric fix.

Half asleep it sounds like some one if coming through my front door. BAnging the screen door. I pull the covers over my head and reach for my phone. I call Dh who is at work and ask him if he is here. He says no I am at work, why? I hear the noise again. We never use the front door nor do any of our friends. I ask if the gun in the living room next to the couch is loaded, he says yes. I ask ok I will call you back.

I get up and grab the gun. I then ented stealth mode and slide against the wall into the room with the door. Crouching down under the window I continue to slid up against the wall. I reach up and start unlocking the door. I muster up my best banshee yell and fling open the door, gun in hand and see the little napoleon chicken attacking himself in the reflection.....

Weirdo little chicken.

 

[marlowmanor]

Ditto and Bailey have both been started on Cocci meds. I figured if I was going to treat one I might as well treat them both. Ditto is finally hanging out with the rest of the herd. She is now eating browse and hay which she would not really eat before. Starting to pork up a bit.


I had a pair of pekins that did not sleep in the coop at night. They had taken to sleeping in the barn with the goats or right outside the door. The hen had gotten stepped on a few weeks back but was getting better. Still kept laying her daily egg though. Noticed there was no egg this morning. Just now got back from a walk in the field with the dog. Thermo managed to find what was left of her. Just one leg buried halfway in the dirt gully... What the heck would have done that?

Picked up a Bourbon red tom today. He is awesome, a little ragged but I see his feathers are starting to grow back in. Can wait to see him in his glory after getting them feathers back.


Now to tell the story of how my day went yesterday... Grab some popcorn might take some reading.

Over the weekend I picked up an awesome speckled banty of sorts. Cute little bird. HAs 3 chicks ( well 2 now one drowned) any ways. Monday I needed a relax day after work so I went to a local auction with a friend of mine. Seens this awesome banty spotted rooster. My neighbor ended up buying it and then I got it. Feisty little thing. After drawing blood on the neighbor I get the bird home with out too much hassle. Now I have to pen him up. Great.

While carrying the crate across the yard he gets out. I am not NOT even trying to catch him. I figure he will find a spot for the night. After locking the rest of the chickens, ducks, geese, etc up I pu ton some True blood and settle in to get my Sookie/ Eric fix.

Half asleep it sounds like some one if coming through my front door. BAnging the screen door. I pull the covers over my head and reach for my phone. I call Dh who is at work and ask him if he is here. He says no I am at work, why? I hear the noise again. We never use the front door nor do any of our friends. I ask if the gun in the living room next to the couch is loaded, he says yes. I ask ok I will call you back.

I get up and grab the gun. I then ented stealth mode and slide against the wall into the room with the door. Crouching down under the window I continue to slid up against the wall. I reach up and start unlocking the door. I muster up my best banshee yell and fling open the door, gun in hand and see the little napoleon chicken attacking himself in the reflection.....

Weirdo little chicken.

Sorry about the pekin hen. The napoleon chicken story is funny though! I'm glad it was just a crazy chicken not something worse. My DH works nights as well so I know how nervous you can get being alone at night. We have a dog outside that barks at anything suspiscious and usually if he starts barking I look out the window to figure out what he is barking about. Alot of times it's nothing, he barks when he sees the goats sometimes, he has barked at a turtle that was outside his fence before, then there was the time when there was a juvenile possum in his doghouse. I always know what time my inlaws get home Friday nights because he barks when they come up their driveway. He even barks at our new car if we come in at night in it because he hasn't gotten used to it yet. We have a gun for protection here too. I've never shot it though and really need to get some practice in with it. I want to take a gun class whenever we can afford it.

ETA: I need to look back and find pictures of your Bailey. Our pygmy doe is named Bailey too!

 

[porkchop48]

Well now Ditto and Bailey have been on their Di-methox treatments. SO far it is going well. Ditto was at 31 lbs and Baily at 42. Being that Tut is only 10 days older than Bailey and is about 65 lbs I figured I might as well treat Bailey too.


The chicken coops have been dug out and re bedded for lack of a better word. The stalls have been shoveled and powerwashed. Tom the turkey has decided he wants to hang out in the barn. Ok Tom what ever makes you happy.

I managed to dig up 2 more 5 gallon buckets of potatoes. Most of my garlic, some more of my onions and another 5 gal bucket of hot peppers. Tomorrow I am going to tackle the tomatoe plants again. We have canned so many tomatoes. We even did about 15 qts of tomatoe sauce, 15 quarts of salsa and made some kind of V8ish juice. The last bucket of hot peppers were minced and frozen to us in summer sausage for when we start processing deer again this fall.

We did almost 70 deer last year, 6 pigs, 1 beef, 75ish chickens and a dozen or so ducks. I hope this year is just as well. We did expand our meat processing building a bit as well. Got a much larger grinder and a new slicer. We also upgraded our table saw. The new one is about 6 ft tall, had to be loaded with a fork truck and taken apart to fit through the door of the meat room. The walkin cooler has had a new rubber roof put on and recharged with coolant... bring on the butchering.

Thermo got to spend his first day in the field with the goats. Getting the shock collar for that dog saved his happy little home. He did very well for his first day off lead and with me not in the field. After chasing sticks that he was throwing for him self and a a quick dip in the pond he ended up napping with the herd. Still no where near trusting him completely yet and still looking for a real LGD but for the time being I think Thermo might just work.

And when I say looking for a real LGD - Here is what I mean. Thermo is an American Bulldog. 100ish lbs of muscle and spunk. GReat dog but still puppish at 15 months old, which I know is normal for big dogs. With his short hair there is no way he would be ok out there in the winter. I want a Great Prys and and currently on the look for one.

Ok have I rambled enough now?

 

[porkchop48]

I am starting to think I am rambling to myself... But hey you'll have that.

So I was suppose to go look at a mini jack today. They lady called 5 minutes before I was too leave and was unable to get a hold of her father ( the jack is at her dad's) Now I am suppose to go tomorrow and check him out and if all goes well pick him up on Saturday.


Still waiting patiently to hear some good new ( or hell any news at this point) on something I have been waiting for for a few weeks that is not farm related, although it will help in the long run.

Still patiently waiting on the bank to get back to us about the mini farm across the street. Come one now. I am ready to get some critters ( cows) over there. It will be adding 20 acres to our micro farm we have now.

My blue and black swedish ducks have started laying.. Woo Hoo Green duck eggs.

The newest peacocks are doing well. I think it is a 1.2 with the white one still being unknown. The guinea are looking to be 1.4 which is a good thing. Hopefully I get a few more hens from the keets, still a bit young to tell.

Most of the garden is plowed under,except the corn and mellons. The chickens have been having a ball out there.

Almost time to go meet hubby for lunch. I hate him being on afternoon turn. I only get to see him for a half hour in the evening. Sucks. I am getting a poop ton down at home but still need my Butch time.

 

[porkchop48]

Woo Hoo - Went and picked up my new Jack on Saturday. Got up saturday morning, did all the morning feedings, let every one out where they needed to be, headed to Sams club, TSC, picked up Donkey, came home, worked on new tractor, trimmed hooves, grilled lunch for DH employees ( 40 hamburgers and 50 hotdog later) Yep typical day for me it seems.

Sunday - Woke up, feed every one, put tractor back together after getting it fixed, picked up neighbor, picked up trailer, picked up new heifer, rounded up goat herd, rounded up cows, Picked up hay for co worker, fixed barn door inlower barn, got lower barn ready for hay... One of these days I will work in enough time to eat and sleep.


The neighbor showed up and got our fields cut today. Tomorrow if it dries it should be fluffing and baling I think. Then comes my job of putting it all away.. Woo Hoo. Now sure how much we will get with the lack of rain but better than nothing.


Now on to the new heifer. .... She is a 3 year old angus, holstein mix. I got her off a coworker who did not want her husband to send her to the sale barn. She is a bit thin but has also been nursing 6 six month old calves. She is a twin. Her and her sister both had calfs, the sister would not accept her calf but this one that I got took them both on. So aside from being thin from nursing two calves she has a hip problem.

My plans are to get the vet out here next week to check her out. She walks fine, grazes the field, just has a hard time getting up on occasions. Our plans are to hangon to her for a few month, get some weight back on her, see what the vet decides and then make the decision to keep or butcher. Very sweet cow though. Pics to come soon.


I have now have 4 big snappers in clean out bins ( we put them in bins with fresh spring water, changed daily for 3-5 days until we butcher them). Two excaped due to lack of putting anything heavy on top of the bins but were caught crusing the yard this morning. Turtle soup will be happening soon... Yum yum

Ok I am officially rambling.. Patiently waiting on a very important phone call that would change things for the better here. I dont want to go out to the barn and have to answer the phone with 50 chickens, a few dozen ducks and guineas in the back groud. Not to mention goats, cows and a donkey that insist he needs food every time I see him.

 

[Pearce Pastures]

So interested to hear more on the turtle soup front. Are these wild caught or do you raise them? What do they taste like? Is there much meat on them?

 

[porkchop48]

So interested to hear more on the turtle soup front. Are these wild caught or do you raise them? What do they taste like? Is there much meat on them?

These are WC snapper from our ponds. Some people think they have a muddy taste to them which they can have if you do not clean them properly. That is why after they are caught we put them in big bins with clean fresh water and change it daily. They live in the bottom of the ponds and end up eating alot of the scavengers which is why they take on that taste. A few days of the fresh clean water and to me they taste like a sweet beef of sorts.

You do get quite a bit of meat from one turtle. After we get these ones cleaned I will weigh the meat from one to get a better idea than " quite a bit"