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Happy Father's Day to the dads on here, to the memories of dad's that have gone to their just rewards... and to all those that mentored or tutored or stood in as a dad figure in someone's life. Thank you to all who have stepped up one way or another...

Find a store, area that caters to mennonites and some of the more "modern amish".... they do not like or have all the electronic stuff... If I ever have to buy a gas stove again, it will come from PA where there are alot of amish and mennonites... NO electronic ignition on the stoves... no...

Manual one that has the wafer??? The wafer is going bad... they do that.. All the local farm supply stores here local do not keep them in stock. I just ordered some from Jeffers (Or Valley vet?? ) because the incubators that DS has as well as the brooders in the "battery tower" are all wafer...

Chilly 46 overnight here. Much cooler than normal, for a good part of May with LOTS of rain... Had nearly 9 inches for the month... 3-4 is normal... CRAZY since we were way behind in moisture and warmer than normal prior to May coming in... Wanted to move the Turkey poults out to the calf...

I had no idea either...

May as well milk something that you like to look at..... She is kinda pretty...

My first preference is for a guernsey cow. But they are hard to find now, and have been bred to the point of being so frail in comparison what the "old style" farmstead guernsey was. They are not milk wagons and therefore do not lend themselves to the commercial type dairying that farmers are...

One other thing, the polled gene is dominant... So if the cow has horns, and the bull is polled... unless the bull has a recessive horn gene, the calves will all be polled first generation. Any horned animal can be dehorned... if adult and horns are large, the vet can do a nerve block, horns...

My opinion... couple of things comes to mind. The bull can breed any cow he can reach... so that means pretty much any cow. More often than not they all put that belt on the calf... and unless you go with a black holstein or a cross, the calf will be red. Not important for color as you do not...

Bater , long A.... is short for incubator... against the "grain" to talk about an incubator in the natural egg hatching thread... ie... hen hatching...

Thank you...

Wish you could send some of the rain showers to this area... We are getting dangerously dry again... fires in parts of NC and SC and we are in the "smoke alley" from them... They keep calling for rain/showers here and we maybe get 20 sprinkles and that's it. Wouldn't be so bad but we have had...

I want one that actually will contribute to the electricity grid... much prefer these "old style" windmills to the ones with a few airplane propeller blades. With the constant wind here on this ridge, it would be nice to be contributing back to my electrical usage. But that one is nice looking.

I love beef liver, coated with flour, sauteed, with sauteed onions....... No one else in my family could stomach liver but I love it... never had chicken livers... my mom always cooked the gizzards, liver, hearts, she called them the giblets....that used to come stuck inside a whole chicken...

A little more detail on the "Tonka Toy" ? Please... would be less "bulk" than loading into the cart I pull behind my Greenworks electric "lawn tractor mower"... more able to manipulate around in tighter spots...

That was some job... they did great...

Love the double bolt idea to convert to a hinge.... SMART....

I like to butcher at 24-27 months old... and I can provide birthdate to the processor... whom we KNOW, so that they don't think we are trying to put something over on them .... some calves will get their "adult teeth" a little earlier or a little later. You can get the backbone, the ox tail...

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Chilly and a light breeze on Monday, partly cloudy and much windier today... Blowing like it was mad at the world this evening and rain coming in and supposed to be even windier tomorrow... temps are not as cold this evening, but feels cold...