Texas Fall/Winter thread!

[blueriver]

I also raise Hampshire Bluebutts Yorkshire and Landrace .. Recently added Red Wattles

 

[Western]

WOOT Last one Jim!!!! Good luck for the last trip to the "Buffet":thumbsup:

Most of the schools here in Wise and Parker counties are starting late, but warm temps now through tonight, so roads should clear of remaining ice patches.

 

[Bird]

I absolutely hate buying something that somebody doesn't need.

I remember hearing many, many years ago that Christmas is when you buy something you'd love to have to give to someone who has absolutely no use for it.:laughing:

 

[bindian]

I raised Hampshire and Suffolk wethers and rabbit fryers for FFA projects. One Hamp took second place and sold for $625 at the FFA buyer's auction.

Never ate one of my lambs, but my kids remember when I still raised rabbits and butchered them myself! I love fried rabbit better than chicken. I think I just might start raising them again. My mouth is watering already.
hugs, Brandi

 

[Bird]

Brandi, in the late 40s my Dad worked for Auto Electric, a chain of auto parts stores. When my first hog and I took 2 blue ribbons and the showmanship ribbon, the owner of Auto Electric was going to be out of town so he told his bookkeeper (didn't have accountants in those days:laughing to go to the auction and buy my hog. The bookkeeper (who was also a close friend of Dad's) asked how high he could bid. The boss said, "I don't care if you have to go to 50 cents a pound." Of course in those days 50 cents a pound for a live animal was ridiculous. So the bookkeeper did bid up to 50 cents, but the owner of the local Ford dealership, Sam P. Hale, bid 51 cents and bought the hog. Dad's boss later asked the bookkeeper what he had to pay for that hog, and when he found out he hadn't bought it because the bid went over 50 cents, he wasn't mad, but said, "I meant for you to buy it for whatever you had to pay. I just said 50 cents because I didn't expect it to go that high." But anyway, I got $153 for that hog and turned around and bought a good registered brood sow for $50 and went into the hog raising business.

My youngest brother raised rabbits when he was in the FFA in high school, but I never raised any myself until the Fall of 1995, when I bought a buck and 3 does (New Zealand Whites). And it wasn't long until I had 15 cages and raised over 300 of them.:laughing: I had grown up eating wild cottontails, swamp rabbits, and jack rabbits, but hadn't eaten any rabbit for many years until then. But I sure ate a bunch of those I raised. I don't understand why every grocery store in the country doesn't have them among the meats they sell.

 

[pacerron]

Brandi, in the late 40s my Dad worked for Auto Electric, a chain of auto parts stores. When my first hog and I took 2 blue ribbons and the showmanship ribbon, the owner of Auto Electric was going to be out of town so he told his bookkeeper (didn't have accountants in those days:laughing to go to the auction and buy my hog. The bookkeeper (who was also a close friend of Dad's) asked how high he could bid. The boss said, "I don't care if you have to go to 50 cents a pound." Of course in those days 50 cents a pound for a live animal was ridiculous. So the bookkeeper did bid up to 50 cents, but the owner of the local Ford dealership, Sam P. Hale, bid 51 cents and bought the hog. Dad's boss later asked the bookkeeper what he had to pay for that hog, and when he found out he hadn't bought it because the bid went over 50 cents, he wasn't mad, but said, "I meant for you to buy it for whatever you had to pay. I just said 50 cents because I didn't expect it to go that high." But anyway, I got $153 for that hog and turned around and bought a good registered brood sow for $50 and went into the hog raising business.

My youngest brother raised rabbits when he was in the FFA in high school, but I never raised any myself until the Fall of 1995, when I bought a buck and 3 does (New Zealand Whites). And it wasn't long until I had 15 cages and raised over 300 of them.:laughing: I had grown up eating wild cottontails, swamp rabbits, and jack rabbits, but hadn't eaten any rabbit for many years until then. But I sure ate a bunch of those I raised. I don't understand why every grocery store in the country doesn't have them among the meats they sell.

Bird,
Remember what hogs were fed in the old days
Maybe that's the taste difference FG was talking about..

 

[Bird]

Bird,
Remember what hogs were fed in the old days
Maybe that's the taste difference FG was talking about..

I don't remember what was in the "mash" that we mixed with milk and/or water for slop. But then corn was a popular feed, and in my own case, I bought "day old" bread from the local bakery. I'm not sure right now, but I think I paid 3 cents a loaf or package, but maybe it was 4 cents. I bought 100 loaves at a time. It was the stuff they'd picked up from the grocery stores; didn't have thrift shops back then. And since it was the same price for a loaf of bread, a cake, a package of donuts, or a pie, the hogs didn't get everything I bought.:laughing:

But there was never any antibiotics or any other drugs or vaccinations.

 

[jinman]

WOOT Last one Jim!!!! Good luck for the last trip to the "Buffet":thumbsup:

Most of the schools here in Wise and Parker counties are starting late, but warm temps now through tonight, so roads should clear of remaining ice patches.

Well. . . perhaps I spoke a bit to quickly. This was the end of the first course of chemo. My doctor showed me that the 2nd course will start in Jan and run half-way through March. That's what I initially thought, but my schedule showed this as the last treatment. Unfortunately it was the last treatment of the first course. I don't know why I say "unfortunately." If it's gonna make me better and send my cancer into remission, then bring it on. This is getting a bit deep for this thread, so I'll drop the rest of my discussion to my "1 in 100 thread."

 

[two_bit_score]

I don't remember what was in the "mash" that we mixed with milk and/or water for slop. But then corn was a popular feed, and in my own case, I bought "day old" bread from the local bakery. I'm not sure right now, but I think I paid 3 cents a loaf or package, but maybe it was 4 cents. I bought 100 loaves at a time. It was the stuff they'd picked up from the grocery stores; didn't have thrift shops back then. And since it was the same price for a loaf of bread, a cake, a package of donuts, or a pie, the hogs didn't get everything I bought.:laughing:

But there was never any antibiotics or any other drugs or vaccinations.

What did you do with the hogs that got sick? Or that just never happened?