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Made pork fried rice last night with it-tasty and no smoky house from hot oil. A little more “residue” on the lips, but just a good moisturizer, right?

If that's the case, I'm better off beefing him out myself- I can use him until he sells PT or we freezer him.

Oh, a friend gave me a tip to use a crockpot liner bag next time-cut a small hole in a corner and drain from there, keeping solids more limited from strainer. If you do that though, be ready to strain the whole amount at once…nowhere to put a holey bag of liquid fat easily!

Crockpot. I cut it up into small pieces, added about 1/2 cup of water to keep it from burning before it started to melt. Cooked about 6 hours, had a few larger soft fat pieces left and ran an immersion blender on low to break those up. When I had mostly all clear liquid, I strained through...

I decided to try rendering this past weekend-had sold a majority of the kidney fat to a friend, who got 16 pints😳. Anyway, from the 5 lbs or so I attempted, I got this beautiful tallow. When I was cutting it up, even fully frozen, it didn’t feel “cold”-my hands sure got soft afterwards! My...

how are yearling bulls marketed at the sale barn? I see packer bull prices-I assume those are typically the big old boys who have reached end of use, and top feeder weights listed are 8’s. Where do the yearling (15 mo or so) fit? Depends on who’s there, I know, but for a typical black angus type...

I will say, the airplane thing can be an issue. We used to live near a local airport-right under the flight path. We had coverage for airplanes falling out of the sky. Now we live next to SpaceX testing facility-nothing leaves the ground (static tests), so no coverage for any damages incurred by...

Sudden and accidental tearing apart? Like, of body parts? Collision might have been an option if a vet would have said he had an impact injury. That’s tough…

Other than the yellow fat, we have clover and ryegrass right now-do those cause off flavor?

I have an open heifer, fat on grass-just found out she was open a week ago and kill date is 5/21. She has some feed every few days, but do I need to do a huge conversion to grain at this point for milder fat flavor?

FAMACHA-lots of information online and you can take a pay-for -it course…has to do with culling for worm resistance, only deworm the animals that need it, and do fecal egg counts to check dewormer effectiveness. Basic premise is to reduce parasite resistance to multiple classes of dewormers...

If her inner eyelids are pink and she doesn't have a big worm belly, don't need to deworm. Ivermectin paste is better than the pour on (which is often given orally to goats). Different fat distribution under the skin makes absorption different with the pour on in cattle vs goats. The safeguard...

Trivia time-dairy goats have been selectively bred for 2 teats, and they typically have very good structure to them-people only have two hands to milk, after all, and kids are usually bottle raised for dairy animals. Boer goats (and a lot of other meat goats) have up to 4 (ideal), some look like...

She’s short and snack-size…best spot for her😉. Smart goat (most are, unfortunately!)

So good news is that he works, the fat heifer is going to freezer camp. Might pick up a heavy bred or wet bag cow for a replacer…