Any other farmers/homesteaders out there

[AreYouReady?]

Originally Posted by Digging4Truth

Yeah... we all tend to wander for a while but the call of the farm yells louder as the years roll by.

I'm from the city but I got a real thrill when I put my first homegrown tomato, green beans, and fried okra in my mouth at suppertime! It was like manna from God.

[Digging4Truth]

Originally Posted by AreYouReady?

I'm from the city but I got a real thrill when I put my first homegrown tomato, green beans, and fried okra in my mouth at suppertime! It was like manna from God.

I can relate. 'Taint nothin' quite like it.

[Jay]

I could not handle that. You go buy an animal, care for it for a while, and then it is a member of the family. I enjoy meet, but not the thought of killing a creature that I have had for several months. Chickens on the other hand are a different story (I can not stand to actually kill, pluck, or gut them, but if you want help cooking them sign me up ).

[AreYouReady?]

Heh heh heh. We had chickens for a few years. They all had different personalities too, so I know what you mean by not being able to kill them for meat. We had a few chickens that really got on our nerves. The roosters grew up and would "challenge" us. One rooster in particular bumped against my legs and followed me to the front of the house. My husband told me it was "challenging" me to a fight. So...I took my leg and kicked it as hard as I could. I knew *I* was the one who was in trouble when the rooster did not even budge a fraction of an inch with my kick. I thought to myself "it was survival time". I did not want to get spurred to death. So I looked around and saw a cut off 2X4 and I ran and picked it up and waved it at that rooster. It finally ran off screaming. That is the first time I was ever scared of any animal.

So...we thought we'd try to cull a few of the most annoying chickens and put them in our freezer. Even hubby, who grew up on a farm didn't have the guts to chop their heads off. So...we went to the local flea market and sold them there.

But I surely enjoyed fresh yard eggs everyday. Been thinking about getting another new crop of chickens just for the yard eggs.

I am mainly interested in veggie gardens though. I would love to plant our 8 acres in blueberries, peach, pecan, apple trees and grapevines but I don't have the energy or muscle strength to maintain it.

[Raven]

I would be interested in seeing your farm website and promise to make only kind and positive statements.

[TJJJ]

Originally Posted by AreYouReady?

Heh heh heh. We had chickens for a few years. They all had different personalities too, so I know what you mean by not being able to kill them for meat. We had a few chickens that really got on our nerves. The roosters grew up and would "challenge" us. One rooster in particular bumped against my legs and followed me to the front of the house. My husband told me it was "challenging" me to a fight. So...I took my leg and kicked it as hard as I could. I knew *I* was the one who was in trouble when the rooster did not even budge a fraction of an inch with my kick. I thought to myself "it was survival time". I did not want to get spurred to death. So I looked around and saw a cut off 2X4 and I ran and picked it up and waved it at that rooster. It finally ran off screaming. That is the first time I was ever scared of any animal.

So...we thought we'd try to cull a few of the most annoying chickens and put them in our freezer. Even hubby, who grew up on a farm didn't have the guts to chop their heads off. So...we went to the local flea market and sold them there.

But I surely enjoyed fresh yard eggs everyday. Been thinking about getting another new crop of chickens just for the yard eggs.

I am mainly interested in veggie gardens though. I would love to plant our 8 acres in blueberries, peach, pecan, apple trees and grapevines but I don't have the energy or muscle strength to maintain it.

My son and I butchered 20 in the fall. We had a pretty nice assembly line going. There are easy ways and hard ways.

Don't cut their heads off, hang em upside down and cut their necks. Much easier and cleaner.

[Jay]

(It's not easy being green)

I ate not that long ago, and now i am queezy.

[Titus2woman]

Originally Posted by Raven

I would be interested in seeing your farm website and promise to make only kind and positive statements.

I sent you a PM.

I wasn't so much worried about what anyone thinks of the actual website, we are doing a huge revamp anyway. This one was my Daughter in law's project for her capstone class for computer graphics and it way more complicated than it needs to be for what it does.

My main concern was for contact information. There seem to be some kind of high strung personalities on this board, being a farm girl I'm used to a more mellow crowd.

[TJJJ]

Originally Posted by Titus2woman

I sent you a PM.

I wasn't so much worried about what anyone thinks of the actual website, we are doing a huge revamp anyway. This one was my Daughter in law's project for her capstone class for computer graphics and it way more complicated than it needs to be for what it does.

My main concern was for contact information. There seem to be some kind of high strung personalities on this board, being a farm girl I'm used to a more mellow crowd.

Love those dexters. If i had more land i would have some dexters. They are nice cattle and easy to handle.

There is a fad right now with the black angus but they are harder to handle, very unruly. One old farmer who had raised herefords for years was talking about having to have 4 men on foot and 1 horseman to herd black angus'. With the gentler breeds one man can handle them.

[TJJJ]

Originally Posted by Jay

(It's not easy being green)

I ate not that long ago, and now i am queezy.

Just slit the jugular.