Category: Livestock and Farm
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Why Grass Fed.
A Quick Review of the Fats That Make Up Your Body All food fats are a blend of the different types, saturated and unsaturated. Unsaturated fats include poly- and monounsaturated fats. Omega-3s and 6s are types of polyunsaturated fats, both are called essential because we have to get them from food, our bodies can’t manufacture…
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Fishing
I enjoy fishing and it is only natural that Tex would accompany me and my fishing mates on our fishing adventures. In fact he gets quite upset when he does not come. He has never attempted to jump over board and even gets quite protective of the boat if birds get too close. Here…
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Chickens
What came first the chicken or the egg? I cannot answer this question but I am going to start with the egg. Eggs can be incubated either under a broody hen or in an incubator. The hen should not be a large meat bird as these will crush the eggs. Many egg laying breeds do…
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Goats
A few years ago I bartered a few chook for 2 Eating goats. When they arrived 1 was heavy in kid so I kept her. Here is my little flock now. Mary had twins today while I was away between 2 and 3 pm, a boy and a girl. Jack comes for a scratch to…