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some of the hay "gougers" act like the oil/gas "gougers".....what do they call it...supply and demand......they may be walking in tall cotton right now, but when the drought is over, and things get back to semi normal, i tend to remember who gouged me and i have a long memory, as im sure most of...

prayers and the just being there to step up and help is a wonderful gift, its easy to say "hey just holler if ya need anything" most people just say thanks, and dont want to ask for the help or thier minds aint in the game, they are just numb. having already know what needs to get done is...

you boys remember that somn and samm are not the same, just a quick glance it might confuse ya, with the similar lettering, not stepping on any toes or nothing, just making sure mine are covered up. samm

land prices are the craziest, there is 10 ac's full of brush and trees, not good trees, scrubby ones. across the road from us, if you buy the whole 10 ac, he will sell for 40,000, but if you just want 5 brushy acs then it will be 25,000. it sits right beside the rail road tracks, what a deal. i...

the fewer the people, the less excitement the better, i use an old whip that my daddy had, i guess its some kind of fiberglass/plastic stuff for the 3 feet thats hard, and it has about 2 foot of the whippy dangly part. i just tap, shake, flop it what ever and it works rather well. we do have...

corn crops were bad here too, alot of farmers didnt harvest it , they just bailed it up. samm

ouch poor baby, it makes my heart wrench to see or hear about little ones getting hurt, but as bad as we dont want it to happen , it sure can happen and it does, just hug em and help em heal, and remember kids are pretty tough. and you are most definitly in our prayers samm

we have never unrolled our hay, we just put a hay ring, (metal) on/over it, at this point they dont waste a bite, they eat everything thats put out, so theres no time to mess the hay up, in previous years when they eat it about gone the calves would sometimes get in the rings and sleep...

there may be alot less farms here in Texas too, i cant tell ya many real estate signs i have seen up in corn fields, but there is more than i would like to see, i guess the years of drought is taking its toll on the farmers, but since there isnt being any more land being made, if it were mine...

i havent had time to get on line here lately, and Alice is correct, about the egg and yogurt. i have 2 more calves and am doing the same on them, one day last week i noticed something sticking out of the end of the nipple, and the calf had sucked a hunk of strawberry into it, i had to take a...

its bad here too, the ground has big cracks, the smaller tanks are drying up, you can see the tracks where you drove the 4 wheeler last week, what grass there is, is getting thin and about to crackle to pieces. we are baling a field that is making 1/3 or less than the years before, but we need...

at the sale the other day, they made an announcement that some boys had some soybean hay for sale, me and my husband looked at each other and grinned, cause we had just talked about if they baled soy beans, cause i dont think they have done very well around here, the drought has about burnt...

when it comes to protecting my animals from predators, its shoot---shovel---shut up, naw i aint seen your dog for awhile now, sure hate to hear that he's missin, aw he'll drag in perty soon, i wouldnt worry too much...then ya smile and go back to work, and for the buzzards they either leave...

there is always the one family member that feels like they got cheated, sinned upon, ripped off, etc...even though they didn't, and as thier paranoia grows they assume that the whole family is against them. it definitly makes the holidays full of fun and cheer. sometimes its easier to love...

storeys guide to raising beef cattle..costs somewhere around 20 bucks....she has several more about goats, chickens, ducks,pigs, sheep, ducks, poultry, horses, llamas. samm

i aint never seen an animal thats worth more than my family , be it a cow, horse, dog or what ever.....ship her out better safe than sorry especially with them grand young uns samm

we just picked up a calf the other day, less than a week or so old, as with the others in the past, i give one full bottle with the milk mixture and with a spoon of yogurt, and an egg all shook togather, and i make up about half of another bottle with just the milk mixture, feed one time in the...

our spinner feeder had now became a goat feeder, since the cows played with it to death, i guess by rubbin and scratchin on it. the top shield part got bent down so we welded it but the metel is so thin that it was no time that it was broken again, so we made 2 hangin barrels like Dun had told...

when we want a weight we use the heart girth tape too. my son was at the barn with us when he came home from school at christmas..we were playing around , i put it around him...it was with in 8 lbs of his actual weight, we got a chuckel out of it.. :D :D

if i were you i would listen to these posts.. from first hand experience it is hard to do business with family. the business lines get blurred really bad and it sure makes family get togethers awkward. i aint you, but listen to the voices of experience, someone (i dont remember who) had a...