Good morning!!!!

[toppop52]

Itching is better today, 23° going to 49° I'm told. Sunny and nice with a strong southerly breeze, rain later they say, changing to flurries, tomorrow is supposed to be around freezing.

 

[daugen]

We raise about 6 flocks a year. Depends on the calendar sometimes it's only 5.

Cows are doing good. Eating hay and any new growth of the wheat. How's your cattle?

now if my memory is good, that's almost half a million chickens a year.
Geez, they must pay you ten dollars a chicken, I want to be a Farmer too!
I just bought boneless chicken breasts for $1.99 again this week.
So they are paying you in pennies, not dollars, still.........
yet hamburger hardly ever goes below 3 or 4 bucks a pound.
I think the chicken industry needs better lobbyists.
I'm sure there are some out of work oil company lobbyists they could hire.

 

[toppop52]

Drew, glad the mouth is healing, take care.

 

[rswyan]

tp,

Hope things turn out well on the path report ... good to hear you're getting some relief on the itching :thumbsup:

 

[rswyan]

RS, fish pictures!

Thinking about doing an African tank and a SA/CA tank.

If I go that route I might pick up one of these guys:

Gold Nugget Plecostomus
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How about a Platty driving a little tractor?

How about a Platty chewing on some shrimp instead ?

 

[daugen]

Plecos are just great prehistoric fish, the trashmen of the fishtank world.
And surprisingly durable...sort of like an aquatic crow.
And rarely as pretty as that gold nugget one.

thanks Randy. Now if I would stop trying to drink hot coffee, even with my head tilted over...

Ran the Gravely for about two hours rolling mud ruts, and it was just dry enough I managed to not get stuck once.
Very unusual...usually I go just a little too far into the muck.
Windy day, good for drying, but not so good for my attempt to blow leaves off the driveway when the wind was going in the opposite direction.
So, chores done, time to chill. Literally, temps are falling. All good, I need to prune those fruit trees and these cold nights are causing the leaves to finally fall off.
Which should elicit little sympathy from those of you shoveling snow at the moment. Roy hope that drive wasn't too bad.

 

[farmer2009]

now if my memory is good, that's almost half a million chickens a year. Geez, they must pay you ten dollars a chicken, I want to be a Farmer too! I just bought boneless chicken breasts for $1.99 again this week. So they are paying you in pennies, not dollars, still......... yet hamburger hardly ever goes below 3 or 4 bucks a pound. I think the chicken industry needs better lobbyists. I'm sure there are some out of work oil company lobbyists they could hire.

Hey Drew, I just found a new job for you. The poultry farmers lobbyists. Only qualification is to get us that $10/chicken.. We raise 5-6lb birds. 94,000 birds/flock. So yea. Half a million birds a year. And yep it's cents per pound and very very few at that.

Chickens are a very efficient animal. Pound of feed/ pound of gain on cattle is about 7:1. Chicken is 1.75:1. Hog about 5:1. Chickens are a 2 level process and about a 65 day turn around. Egg laying to processing. Cows are a 3 level process and 18-24 months from birth to processing. See the difference.

 

[Jim Shooz]

Eric Here's an idea to move your sheep around and save your dog https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7OGKg7tQdwg

It would also be an excuse to buy a drone. Strictly for work purposes only of course :thumbsup:

 

[txdon]

Good morning all, another wet start to the day here.

At least yesterday it stayed dry for a few hours in the afternoon, giving me chance to dig in an ex-electricity pole strainer post. If I was sensible, I would have got a tractor mounted post hole digger long ago. I have to keep reminding myself that I still dig with a spade for a bit of physical exercise. Unfortunately my joints don't quite see it that way and are none too happy when it comes to tamping the soil back into the hole. I must have looked a little rough when I came in as my wife actually suggested I should consider getting a post knocker.

Language check - UK to Texas translator help please.
ex-electricity pole strainer post? The added word "strainer" has me confused.
Spade? Shovel or a hand post hole digger - two handles like a clam pulling dirt from hole?
post knocker? Tractor mounted driver or hand held driver?

 

[wngsprd]

24 going to 35.

Don, I had questions about those same terms from Eric, but I think if he translates into Texan, I'll understand just fine.

Planning on my usual trip to the gym this morning, and then if the ground is still frozen, take the tractor out for the first time in a couple of weeks, and go cut down two standing dead oaks across the creek. Time to get the chainsaw and splitter working. Sharpened a couple of chains yesterday.