farmer's Dog

[Dave]

I see ads all the time now on TV for Farmer's Dog dog food. I think we should make the real thing and sell it as Rancher's Dog. The two main ingredients would be fresh ground after birth and colostrum fed calf milk poops. I know a lot of ranch dogs live on that diet for a couple months of the year. The urban dwellers and their dogs should learn the benefits of this fine diet.

 

[GoWyo]

I see ads all the time now on TV for Farmer's Dog dog food. I think we should make the real thing and sell it as Rancher's Dog. The two main ingredients would be fresh ground after birth and colostrum fed calf milk poops. I know a lot of ranch dogs live on that diet for a couple months of the year. The urban dwellers and their dogs should learn the benefits of this fine diet.

Heck yeah and a package of dried afterbirth to roll in. Kind of like the prize in Cracker Jacks.

 

[chevytaHOE5674]

Out of calving season it's anything dead they can find. Mine is always finding a dead squirrel or bird to crunch down, or disappearing for 2 hours and coming back with a deer leg.

 

[Dave]

Out of calving season it's anything dead they can find. Mine is always finding a dead squirrel or bird to crunch down, or disappearing for 2 hours and coming back with a deer leg.

By spring every year there is enough deer bones in our yard to build a couple complete deer. And mice, my dogs dig for mice daily. This morning while changing the irrigation my dog was completely under the quad digging. I made her get out and drove to my next site. Here she comes with a very large fat rodent in her mouth.

 

[Ky hills]

Dogs do their part to clean up after the calves. The one we have now, goes exploring to find that yellow calf manure.
We have a situation when she finds a dead varmint or a bone and runs in the house with it. She's brought in bones, birds, half a rabbit. Have to distract her and get said item away from her.
Then there's the impromptu baths after she rolls in something.
City folks don't know what they're missing.
We have a barn cat, long legged lanky cat. Climbs up trees and gets up on our second story deck and pulls birds out from under it. Varmit hunting rascal. Sone recent BnB guests commented that he was thin. Backstory they have a well fed house cat. Anyways our cat has food laying by him he just likes to hunt and takes a few bites out of what he catches and brings what's left or the whole thing close by our house. One morning last week I had to gather up and dispose of three critters he'd brought up.
Used to have a dog that would kill groundhogs possums etc and bring them to the front porch.

 

[Logan52]

I have an Australian Shepherd and a Great Pyrenees, both spaded females. I recently sold all my sheep and do not spend as much time moving cows as I once did, so my dogs are pretty bored. Digging for moles has become their main joy in life, though the Aussie stills loves retrieving a thrown ball.
Dogs are famous for their lack of pretense and have no shame in dealing with calf manure or afterbirth, in fact they revel in it.
It is amusing to watch the active Shepherd digging furiously while the big laid back GP sits on her haunches and watches with pride at the activity of her partner.

 

[CowboyRam]

Dogs do their part to clean up after the calves. The one we have now, goes exploring to find that yellow calf manure.
We have a situation when she finds a dead varmint or a bone and runs in the house with it. She's brought in bones, birds, half a rabbit. Have to distract her and get said item away from her.
Then there's the impromptu baths after she rolls in something.
City folks don't know what they're missing.
We have a barn cat, long legged lanky cat. Climbs up trees and gets up on our second story deck and pulls birds out from under it. Varmit hunting rascal. Sone recent BnB guests commented that he was thin. Backstory they have a well fed house cat. Anyways our cat has food laying by him he just likes to hunt and takes a few bites out of what he catches and brings what's left or the whole thing close by our house. One morning last week I had to gather up and dispose of three critters he'd brought up.
Used to have a dog that would kill groundhogs possums etc and bring them to the front porch.

He just thinks you are a bad hunter. You need to up your game.

 

[Ky hills]

He just thinks you are a bad hunter. You need to up your game.

He's right I'm not much of a hunter

 

[Lucky]

I've got a couple friends that started raw dog food businesses. One has done really well and taken it full time.

The other I help quite a bit with electrical projects at his butcher shop. He is doing pretty good also but is just getting started. They do custom blends and deliver to a pretty good area. When they're making the dog food the butcher shop stinks from all the internals mixed in. He's got some really good stories about meeting people with to deliver dog food.

 

[TexasJerseyMilker]

For dogs at spring round up is the annual calf testicle festival.

 

[Dave]

For dogs at spring round up is the annual calf testicle festival.

I forgot that we will need to add calf nuts to the recipe.

 

[Ky hills]

@TexasJerseyMilker @Dave here in these parts calf fries are a delicacy, fried and served with gravy and mashed potatoes.
One year we had a vet out working cattle and we had a bucket that he was throwing the fries in when he'd cut bull calf. At one point he tossed one in and barn cat jumped and caught it and ran off with it. Vet laughed and said that's one you won't get to eat.

 

[Dave]

@TexasJerseyMilker @Dave here in these parts calf fries are a delicacy, fried and served with gravy and mashed potatoes.
One year we had a vet out working cattle and we had a bucket that he was throwing the fries in when he'd cut bull calf. At one point he tossed one in and barn cat jumped and caught it and ran off with it. Vet laughed and said that's one you won't get to eat.

I have ate lots of them. Fried in olive oil and garlic is the best. Seen lots of them cooked on the branding fire. Or if you have a propane oven for heating the irons the top of it makes a handy place to cook them on. Absolutely never with gravy involved.

 

[TCRanch]

Out of calving season it's anything dead they can find. Mine is always finding a dead squirrel or bird to crunch down, or disappearing for 2 hours and coming back with a deer leg.

How 'bout a fresh deer liver? I mean, my pups do generally bring back a "prize", so there's that.

 

[TexasJerseyMilker]

Dogs are truly disgusting eaters.

 

[Ky hills]

I have ate lots of them. Fried in olive oil and garlic is the best. Seen lots of them cooked on the branding fire. Or if you have a propane oven for heating the irons the top of it makes a handy place to cook them on. Absolutely never with gravy involved.

Different regions I reckon. Here they coat them in a batter and fry. It's like fried chicken gravy. Here in Appalachia there's gravy is served with a lot of things.

 

[chevytaHOE5674]

Different regions I reckon. Here they coat them in a batter and fry. It's like fried chicken gravy. Here in Appalachia there's gravy is served with a lot of things.

In the summer this is a tourist area being on the big lake. Lots of visitors from down south order a side of gravy at the local restaurant for just about everything fries, steak, pasties, chicken, you name it. No matter what it is you just dip it in gravy. Ha

 

[Mark Reynolds]

For dogs at spring round up is the annual calf testicle festival.

I was going to be a bit more discrete and refer to them as "rocky mountain oysters", but maybe that term is reserved for rich and famous people, not dogs.

My daughter's Australian shepherd isn't a farm dog, but you have to keep her dog away from the cat litter boxes. Her dog supplements its regular food by cleaning the litter boxes.

 

[redcowsrule33]

Dog made a relationship with us as we provided food and shelter in exchange for rodent control and protection. They ate the stuff we didn't want. Now the dog eats human grade food while the owner's family tucks into hot dogs and chicken nuggets.

 

[Named'em Tamed'em]

I was going to be a bit more discrete and refer to them as "rocky mountain oysters", but maybe that term is reserved for rich and famous people, not dogs.

My daughter's Australian shepherd isn't a farm dog, but you have to keep her dog away from the cat litter boxes. Her dog supplements its regular food by cleaning the litter boxes.

Kitty Roca!