rachels.haven's Journal

[rachels.haven]

I'm going to try to put the cow thing off for a little longer. The darn kid wants to replace my goat herd with a dairy cow operation and we don't have the space or facilities to do that...(and I prefer goats, especially at my scale).

🐄 🐄 🐄 🐄 -Dan's dream farm.

 

[Baymule]

If y’all ever move to a friendlier state, he could run a dairy cow and milk fed pork operation. Be sure to be near an affluent urban area. There are people who want better than industrial meat and will pay for it. The feeder pigs I raise are finished on soured corn, I use buttermilk in every bucket to provide the good bacteria for the pigs gut health. It’s not enough to promote as milk fed pork, just a splash, then I fill the bucket up with water.
Dan the Man has a Plan.

 

[Bruce]

And I said nothing more. I know better.

Yep, better not say a thing because he WILL remember.

and it is often cheaper to have an animal trailered if you aren't going to be using it more than a few times a year due to the costs of plates and insurance up in the insanity of the northeast.

Shhhh, that would speed up bringing in cow #1!!!! No, you would DEFINITELY need a trailer and an F350 dually to pull it. Dan can get a job to pay for those. Should take at least a couple dozen years given his current age
But don't suggest it to him, I have a feeling he would take you up on it.

 

[rachels.haven]

Dan always has a plan and plenty of secret "Dan Stuff". We will probably have a jersey heifer or cow in a year or two the way he plots things. I would not mind mini if it made sense. We will need a lot more hay storage though. *Sigh*

 

[Baymule]

Might ought to plan on extra space for cow hay. LOL

 

[rachels.haven]

A good chunk of the pasture. The fence is done. Now I need to put up a buck pen and a baby pen. No time no time no time.

 

[Baymule]

That sure is a beautiful pasture!

 

[rachels.haven]

The robins fledged last night. One has already decided it wants nothing to do with us outside of food, one is now rejecting the dog food beyond just one piece per session, and the last one is still friendly, still eating but that will change in the next day or two. Almost done.

Bigger box will not hold them. Looking forward to turning them out.

 

[farmerjan]

That's something, you guys have done so good getting them this far. They don't look like robins though.... maybe the "youth stage" I have never noticed baby robins up close before.

 

[rachels.haven]

They're trying to look grown up.