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Post by Olga on Feb 27, 2008 8:45:33 GMT -5
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Post by Honeycreek Dexters on Feb 27, 2008 10:20:17 GMT -5
Very nice looking Dexters you should be pleased with what you have done. Did I tell you they were very nice looking? Good job.
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Post by Cloverbell on Feb 27, 2008 11:04:58 GMT -5
Neat! The cows and calves look great Olga. Who are the reds? Whose calf is that with the birth defect? How did that turn out? Are those your piglets? How yummy!
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Post by copperhead on Feb 27, 2008 14:06:14 GMT -5
they look great Olga, but I didn't see any pigs !!!
P.J.
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Post by Olga on Feb 27, 2008 16:13:52 GMT -5
Ok, let me sort through the questions...
P.J., you didn't see any pigs because you just watched the slideshow. Linda must've perused the rest of my pictures, a total of 138 on Photobucket.
The red bull calf belongs to the Bold Venture Farm in TN, I posted him for sale for them on Family Cow board in November.
The calf with a birth defect is a Jersey heifer out of AI breeding. She was born to my Atkins friends in October. They couldn't go through with euthenasia and let nature take its course, one and a half weeks later.
Those piglets were offered to me by the local guy that I bought 2 pigs from last year. Their mother abandoned them. She only had 4 piglets in that litter, but she stepped on one of them, and by the time I came to pick them up, he wasn't doing so well. So I brought 3 home. I fed them colostrum at 3 hour intervals (during the night, too) but one of the males developed the runs and lost all his fluids virtually overnight - so I did what had to be done. The second male developed similar simptoms 5 days later, he died on his own. The last one, a little girl, made it to almost 2 weeks old. I started subbing that month and had to keep her in a pet carrier lined with hay during the school day - with the carrier sitting on the front passanger seat of my car. I would come to let her out and feed her from a baby bottle on my lunch break. But one very cold day she didn't eat her lunch when I got her out of the carrier, and soon developed the same symptoms as the others before her. I won't be taking in orphaned piglets from now on, not even for free.
The two paid-for pigs went to the butcher this past sunday and yes, they will be yummy! They were milk-fed.
Thank you all for the compliments on the animals. They are a pride, a joy, and a source of outstanding nutrition for us and a few of our friends.
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Post by copperhead on Mar 2, 2008 9:45:52 GMT -5
 this is Little John last week, I don't know if he's as big as Grover or not, maybe it's just the picture............ P.J. |
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Post by copperhead on Mar 2, 2008 9:47:17 GMT -5
I really do love his color, his daddy threw all his calves this color.................P.J.
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Post by Honeycreek Dexters on Mar 14, 2008 8:42:29 GMT -5
I like that color alot looks like mink.
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Post by Cloverbell on Mar 14, 2008 14:54:30 GMT -5
Is he dun or red? I'm assuming red but I have a dark dun that looks almost like him. He's so cute!! What a coat of hair!!
Linda/Cloverbell
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Post by Olga on Mar 15, 2008 0:00:27 GMT -5
Love that coat! Such a good looking boy, P.J.
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Post by copperhead on Mar 16, 2008 13:48:29 GMT -5
He is a "dun", and I think thats why a lot of the old papers read the color as red dun. The bull threw almost all of his calves this color.
Hey Olga, I got him de-horned and vaccinated last week, and he's now officially off of his momma. He's learned to stand tied, but not crazy about being touched. He'll learn.............
P.J.
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