Critter pictures

[NH-Rob]

Ha ha ha. What's up with the chicken in the house!!??

That one was my daughers favorite and she would walk around with it all the time. What was even more funny was my wife driving the tractor around and giving them rides. The chicken would sit on here lap and seemed to love the ride. I used to have pics of that too but lost them.
Rob

 

[Duffster]

I guess I should get an updated picture of my Holsteins.

Here we go. LOL

 

[weldingisfun]

Here is a picture of the king of our herd. He weighs in at around 265.

 

[jayste]

Here we go. LOL

Good one Duffster! I see you like to bag your own meat as well. It's good to know where it comes from, huh?

 

[Duffster]

It's good to know where it comes from, huh?

Yes it is.

I like the learning experience for the kids. They are learning what animals are for and where food comes from.

Besides my kids love steak!

ps I have few pictures from a little earlier in the process if anyone wants to see them.

 

[jayste]

Yes it is.

I like the learning experience for the kids. They are learning what animals are for and where food comes from.

Besides my kids love steak!

ps I have few pictures from a little earlier in the process if anyone wants to see them.

Ohh! Steak? BTW, I've never processed my own beef before. I Always do my wild game. Of course, it's smaller scale.

The problem with folks being so removed from the farm or rural life is that they start believing that the groceries all come from the store...originally! Nice thing about butchering your own is that there's little price difference in the grind meat or steak, huh?

Have you got a special place there that you process yours? I'm sure yours is a little more involved than a black jack tree to hang and skin it and a regular, gutted, refrigerator to hang the quarters in!

 

[Duffster]

Ohh! Steak? BTW, I've never processed my own beef before. I Always do my wild game. Of course, it's smaller scale.

The problem with folks being so removed from the farm or rural life is that they start believing that the groceries all come from the store...originally! Nice thing about butchering your own is that there's little price difference in the grind meat or steak, huh?

Have you got a special place there that you process yours? I'm sure yours is a little more involved than a black jack tree to hang and skin it and a regular, gutted, refrigerator to hang the quarters in!

I was just talking to some of my help about them buying a quarter of beef. Even if they paid for processing they would have all the cuts for about the price of ground beef.

I have about $0.50 a pound in mine.

My FIL has a meat cutting room in his basement with butcher block tables, big stainless steel sinks and a band saw. We hung the steer from my loader and then hung the sides in the garage to cool. So not overly fancy. LOL

 

[jayste]

My FIL has a meat cutting room in his basement with butcher block tables, big stainless steel sinks and a band saw. We hung the steer from my loader and then hung the sides in the garage to cool. So not overly fancy. LOL

Maybe not but very functional.

I remember one time my FIL sold a calf to some Asian folks he worked with and when they came out to get it they asked if they could borrow a gun to shoot it! They were going to process it there on his place but he told them to load it up and get gone!

 

[jimmyj]

Mmmmm, beef.

 

[Bandit4]

This gator appeared in my pond as I was digging it.

 

[dave1949]

This gator appeared in my pond as I was digging it.

Yikes! Didn't know gators were that far north. So, now what do you do? Live with it or what?
Dave.

 

[YesDeere]

The brown dog and the T cat. Not livestock but my buddies

 

[Bandit4]

Dave
Wildlife told me he was most likely there with another gator laying eggs and would stay there until they hatched and then leave. I have a sandy soil mixed with a little clay. Gator are protected in North Carolina so you can not kill them. He came back the next year when I started digging the pond deeper and put more sandy soil up on the banks. Grass is there now and have not seen any in three years.

 

[dave1949]

Dave
Wildlife told me he was most likely there with another gator laying eggs and would stay there until they hatched and then leave. I have a sandy soil mixed with a little clay. Gator are protected in North Carolina so you can not kill them. He came back the next year when I started digging the pond deeper and put more sandy soil up on the banks. Grass is there now and have not seen any in three years.

Let's hope he stays away. I have no concept of dealing with something like gators. From my vast knowledge of gators gained through countless hours of watching the Discovery Channel , it sounds like if there isn't an agreeable egg laying area, they move on.
Dave.

 

[Leejohn]

Here are some of me and my critters and a few interesting ones.

 

[dave1949]

Here are some of me and my critters and a few interesting ones.

That is some hinky stuff you have growing there
Dave.

 

[Leejohn]

Man I'm in Missouri and you don't know what you might come across here.
The white things is water coming out the ground around a weed and freezing. The yellow thing I'm saving to later to see if someone can tell what it is.

 

[dave1949]

Man I'm in Missouri and you don't know what you might come across here.
The white things is water coming out the ground around a weed and freezing. The yellow thing I'm saving to later to see if someone can tell what it is.

I never would have guessed the white stuff is ice. Must be a seep that freezes at the surface and keeps pushing out, forming that ribbon shape. Like an extrusion press. I have never seen anything like the yellow. I guessed it is some some of fungus, looks like its growing on wet wood.
Dave.

 

[jinman]

The yellow thing I'm saving to later to see if someone can tell what it is.

It's a TRIFFID! Run for your life!

 

[jimmyj]

The white ice pics are amazing. I could never have guessed that. The others have to be a fungus like Dave says - no?

BTW, your pic is great with the shepherd crook "herding" the turkey with that hat thingee. ha ha ha (I know, great sentence but whatever...)