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Pics of the farm

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Well mini farm that is.

The only ones I do not have pics of are the rabbits. They are flemish giant/ new zeleand mixes. 1 buck and 4 does. Cute little things :yesnod:

First up the newest additions... Otis and Squirell. They were given to us by a friend who was no longer able to keep them. Otis is the darker smaller of the two.

Both are registered jacks. Looks like it may be time to find a jenny.

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Next the "rescued " chickens. I had no plans on having 53 chickens. Found this flock locally and you had to take them all. The plans are to get them well fed and beefed up and buctcher about half of them. They are healthy but there was a lot of feather pluckering going on due to being so crowded. They now have 3 times the space, good food and get to free range during the day. In the week that I have had them their feathers are coming back in nicely. The lady thought she only had 2 rooster. I have counted 8 which might explain some of the fighting and feather plucking. The plucker is being built as we speak.

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See the bald spot on the last one... Little too much rooster time going on :D

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we actually only have 7 acres but are surrounded by nothing but large farms.

Makes it kinda nice.
 
Good gravy, that black baldy is a chunker! Actually, all those cattle are! Awesome farm, I hope to have something similar at some point in the future. May not have mammalian livestock, but I hope to at least have chickens and then do quality deer management on my property so I have a healthy deer herd I can harvest a few bucks and does from every year. That'll make up for not having beef. ;-)
 
Cheryl Marchek AKA JM said:
WOW! very nice! Thats a pretty big herd of cattle already too! Good job! But are you going to have enough grazing for 10 head of beef cattle on 7 acres?
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I just wanted to jump in here......7 acres for 10 cattle SHOULD be just fine. I live here in KY, where there really don't seem to be ANY laws on where you can keep cattle, or how many, or cleanliness for that matter. :rolleyes:

Some people around where I am go way to far, I know of a man who has 20-30 cattle on I would say no more than 10 acres (if that):eek:! He pushes the limit a bit too far IMO.

Anyway, from seeing what I have seen I would have to assume 7 acres should be big enough....
 
Cheryl Marchek AKA JM said:
WOW! very nice! Thats a pretty big herd of cattle already too! Good job! But are you going to have enough grazing for 10 head of beef cattle on 7 acres?
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Nothing like being late to the party.

THose cows are actually just visiting for the evening... well for a few weeks anyways. They were helping eating down the field so it could be brushhogged.

We have purchased 2 of them and they still get to run with the mail herd which has about 65 acres to graze on. They will get rounded up back to our field when butcher time comes along :)
 
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