Every bull here from about 800 lbs and up sells as a slaughter bull by the pound. Some people buy them as breeding bulls, but its buyer beware with no guarantees of course. Most go to hamburger.
Something someone suggested to me when we had a stuborn steer was to tie him up with his nose cinched up in the air. Said leave him there at least an hour, longer if he doesn’t get easier. Maybe I got lucky, but he started following us like a puppy dog.
I used a crock pot when I did my last one. If I recall, I put the fat in cheese cloth. I may have strained the rendered oil through cheese cloth after rendering also, not positive. It makes some good french fries.
Thats a nice theory but not reality. Burd flu is spread from bird to bird, outside birds are no less vulnerable. Like mentioned, they could be more vulnerable because of exposure. Just because they peck off the ground means nothing.
You should be able to find a local hay guy that doesn’t use Grazon. Though with the “soil” you have where you are, I don’t know that it would be much help. From what I know over on the SW coast, soil is just a theory, you have pure sand. No experience with the polymers, they seem more geared...
They’ll cling to you like a lost dog if they don’t have a companion. We started with just one that at first was scared of everyone. My youngest spent an entire day with it in a small garden building. By the end of the day that goat would have followed him to the end of the earth. She would watch...
We have two pet goats, a dwarf nigerian and a pygmy. They’ll stand statue still if you brush them, they love it. They make pretty darn good pets, way more personality that I ever expected.
Its simply trying to update the software. It needs connected to wi-fi to do so. No different than your phone needing to be connected to wi-fi for system updates.