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FARMING & COUNTRY LIFE / Re: Lambs have arrived :)
« Last post by The15thMember on March 24, 2024, 12:56:23 pm »
It always hurt on the day I took them away though. There was, and still is, no way I could process them myself.
Sometimes it is sad, and especially the first time we processed a goat it was really hard.  But that's okay, and it got easier as we got more confident in the butchering process.  And personally, to me it feels so good to eat meat that I know was raised and slaughtered with care and dignity.   
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FARMING & COUNTRY LIFE / Re: Lambs have arrived :)
« Last post by Terri Yaki on March 24, 2024, 12:46:43 pm »
On our farm meat animals are people too.  Just because their lives are short doesn't mean they aren't treated with the same love and care as the animals we keep or sell.  So meat animals on our farm get just as good of names as the sell animals.  We do save the best names for the keeper animals though.  :cool:   
That's the way I was with my pigs and lambs when I had them. It always hurt on the day I took them away though. There was, and still is, no way I could process them myself.
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FARMING & COUNTRY LIFE / Re: Lambs have arrived :)
« Last post by The15thMember on March 24, 2024, 12:43:00 pm »
Well, this morning dawned beautifully and to new lambs in the barn. Autumn had given birth to twin ewe lambs. Both still wet when I found her, but both up and about feeding well getting their colostrum. Names haven't yet been debated or decided upon.
Oh my word!  That one with the facial marking is particularly beautiful!

my wife never lets me name things .. they look like a Gyro and Kebab to me   :grin:
On our farm meat animals are people too.  Just because their lives are short doesn't mean they aren't treated with the same love and care as the animals we keep or sell.  So meat animals on our farm get just as good of names as the sell animals.  We do save the best names for the keeper animals though.  :cool:   
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PHOTO PAGE - MEMBER PHOTOS & BEE-MOVIES HERE! / Re: Bees on flowers
« Last post by Terri Yaki on March 24, 2024, 12:30:18 pm »
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author=Michael Bush link=topic=57194.msg527977#msg527977 date=1710422166]
We brought it over during the depression.  We were told that it was a good forage crop.  The story about how to plant it from that era was this:  Empty the shot out of a shotgun shell.  Fill it full of Kudzu seeds.  Go out at midnight so your neighbors don't see you.  Aim the shotgun at about a 45 degree angle and shoot.  Run as fast as you can back to the house so the Kudzu doesn't overtake you.

Mmmmm lol  :grin: 

But honestly, horses love it!
I've heard that goats do too. But that would be no surprise.
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PHOTO PAGE - MEMBER PHOTOS & BEE-MOVIES HERE! / Re: Bees on flowers
« Last post by Ben Framed on March 24, 2024, 12:01:24 pm »
I hear that kudzu makes purple honey.  Back when we had a bee inspector, he said he once saw blue pollen in a hive and asked the beekeeper where he thought it was coming from.  The farmer said, you won't believe it unless you see it and took him to a barn nearby where the bees were collecting the paint off of an old tractor...
:shocked: Bees put paint in their combs and "pollen" in combs is supposed to be healthy?? :rolleyes:

If that report is accurate then there is a good chance the paint contained lead.

JP did a removal video a few years ago where he found either blue, green, or purple color, (I can't remember which color for sure). I am thinking he said the removal was close to a zoo where snow combs were discarded in the waste and he suspected the bees got the color there...
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PHOTO PAGE - MEMBER PHOTOS & BEE-MOVIES HERE! / Re: Bees on flowers
« Last post by Ben Framed on March 24, 2024, 11:48:35 am »
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author=Michael Bush link=topic=57194.msg527977#msg527977 date=1710422166]
We brought it over during the depression.  We were told that it was a good forage crop.  The story about how to plant it from that era was this:  Empty the shot out of a shotgun shell.  Fill it full of Kudzu seeds.  Go out at midnight so your neighbors don't see you.  Aim the shotgun at about a 45 degree angle and shoot.  Run as fast as you can back to the house so the Kudzu doesn't overtake you.

Mmmmm lol  :grin: 

But honestly, horses love it!
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PHOTO PAGE - MEMBER PHOTOS & BEE-MOVIES HERE! / Re: Bees on flowers
« Last post by Dora on March 24, 2024, 11:33:57 am »
I hear that kudzu makes purple honey.  Back when we had a bee inspector, he said he once saw blue pollen in a hive and asked the beekeeper where he thought it was coming from.  The farmer said, you won't believe it unless you see it and took him to a barn nearby where the bees were collecting the paint off of an old tractor...
:shocked: Bees put paint in their combs and "pollen" in combs is supposed to be healthy?? :rolleyes:
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FARMING & COUNTRY LIFE / Re: Lambs have arrived :)
« Last post by Ben Framed on March 24, 2024, 10:30:26 am »
my wife never lets me name things .. they look like a Gyro and Kebab to me   :grin:


:cheesy: :wink: :grin:
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WEB VIDEOS / A New Jersey Jew and You Believe In Jesus?
« Last post by Ben Framed on March 24, 2024, 10:12:15 am »
Hear his story.

>Growing up, Seth struggled with self-image and intense guilt. He thought he was ugly and unlovable in God?s eyes. But an encounter with God?s love at a church service finally caused Seth to see that, in Messiah, he is a new creation!!

https://youtu.be/F580WaNHhqg?si=dACER1CjJEDpGNw6

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FARMING & COUNTRY LIFE / Re: Lambs have arrived :)
« Last post by animal on March 24, 2024, 09:40:20 am »
my wife never lets me name things .. they look like a Gyro and Kebab to me   :grin:
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