Fencing for lower food cost.

[none]

We now have our back fenced in. With pretty decent pasture grass mix.

So I was looking to find out if there was someplace locally to get bacon seeds and a calf or two?

Thanks

[alingo2001]

Bacon seeds?

[Jamie Jackson]

Bacon seeds?

 

 

LOL.Piglets I do believe. :pleased:

 

 

Congrats wcd. It'd be nice to raise some meat...heck...there isn't much of an affordable option these days.

[hipower]

  

We now have our back fenced in. With pretty decent pasture grass mix.

So I was looking to find out if there was someplace locally to get bacon seeds and a calf or two?

Thanks

 
 

Bacon seeds?

 
 

LOL.Piglets I do believe. :pleased:
 
 
Congrats wcd. It'd be nice to raise some meat...heck...there isn't much of an affordable option these days.

Bacon seeds!!! That is awesome!!   :rofl:  :rofl: :rofl:  :rofl:  :rofl:  :rofl:  :rofl:  

[none]

Bacon seeds!!! That is awesome!!   :rofl:  :rofl: :rofl:  :rofl:  :rofl:  :rofl:  :rofl:

We already do chickens and turkeys and they taste a whole lot better than commercially raised. So I figured why not expand out a bit. We do a lot of veggies and I have even learned to can chicken and veggies so it carries us through the winter between freezing things and canning. I have not had a good steak since we left South Dakota.

There must be a livestock exchange around here somewhere. Although the fair should be coming up soon so that might be a good place to start.

[MrsMonkeyMan2500]

I applaud you for being able to do it! We have a neighbor starting that. She got me into chickens. Monkey and I are building a coop but we are just planning on using for eggs to start.

My problem is I would name the bacon seeds and calves. Once there's a name attached it's here for its natural life. Hell, I named the neighbors mule down the street.

[gregintenn]

Bacon seeds?

Hog semen. :ugh:

[seez52]

bacon seeds... hum.. if we could just scatter some of these across parts of the Middle East....

[Randall53]

We already do chickens and turkeys and they taste a whole lot better than commercially raised. So I figured why not expand out a bit. We do a lot of veggies and I have even learned to can chicken and veggies so it carries us through the winter between freezing things and canning. I have not had a good steak since we left South Dakota.
There must be a livestock exchange around here somewhere. Although the fair should be coming up soon so that might be a good place to start.

That's awesome. I wish I hadn't had my head up my arse 40 years ago when there was land aplenty for $200 - $300 per acre. I had a good job too and could now be sitting on many acres with a huge barn and house paid for.........(dammit-all)

[hipower]

That's awesome. I wish I hadn't had my head up my arse 40 years ago when there was land aplenty for $200 - $300 per acre. I had a good job too and could now be sitting on many acres with a huge barn and house paid for.........(dammit-all)

 

You are not the only one my friend. I'm still trying to live down my teens and 20's.

[bud]

. Edited August 7, 2015 by bud

[none]

I applaud you for being able to do it! We have a neighbor starting that. She got me into chickens. Monkey and I are building a coop but we are just planning on using for eggs to start.
My problem is I would name the bacon seeds and calves. Once there's a name attached it's here for its natural life. Hell, I named the neighbors mule down the street.

Thought we would have that concern too.

Until he named the turkeys at the time Christmas Thanksgiving and New Years.

Kind of funny side story my son had the most difficult time convincing a classmate that milk really came from cows not Walmart.

[MrsMonkeyMan2500]

Thought we would have that concern too.

Until he named the turkeys at the time Christmas Thanksgiving and New Years.

Kind of funny side story my son had the most difficult time convincing a classmate that milk really came from cows not Walmart.

Birds I don't really think I would have an issue with. 4 legged creatures on the other hand! Now if it's one I don't have to care for, that's different. We have the option to buy half a cow. If I don't see it until it's packaged, I am ok.

But I guess it's kinda like a deer right? You send it somewhere and they butcher it for you? Oh I would miss Ferdinand, but I would love a farm fresh filet!

[none]

Birds I don't really think I would have an issue with. 4 legged creatures on the other hand! Now if it's one I don't have to care for, that's different. We have the option to buy half a cow. If I don't see it until it's packaged, I am ok.
But I guess it's kinda like a deer right? You send it somewhere and they butcher it for you? Oh I would miss Ferdinand, but I would love a farm fresh filet!

I must be somewhat cold hearted. I really would not have an issue in dispatching it. I would think that we would have given it a better life that it would have had versus a feed lot somewhere. Besides giving your family the best you can means a lot.

[MrsMonkeyMan2500]

I must be somewhat cold hearted. I really would not have an issue in dispatching it. I would think that we would have given it a better life that it would have had versus a feed lot somewhere. Besides giving your family the best you can means a lot.

You aren't cold hearted. I'm just a pushover when it comes to animals. I agree 1,000% I just couldn't take part in the "final stages" of its life!

[suspiciousmind]

Pigs would be hard for me. They are really intelligent and emotional creatures.

[MrsMonkeyMan2500]

Pigs would be hard for me. They are really intelligent and emotional creatures.

I know I would name mine. I've always wanted a pig named Violet and Hamsel and Gretel. I couldn't imagine it but God, I love bacon.

[Handsome Rob]

How good's your fence?

I know from experience that if a pig wants to be out, it'll be out.

Have you thought about sheep?

As suggested, Craigslist is a really good bet. Although at this time of year, be prepared to pay a premium. Calves are a few weeks away from being finished, lambs are nearly ready & are ready for market by the end of May.
The best time of year to buy is late fall, if you can wait a while. Everything's half the price it is now due to feed costs! Edited May 19, 2015 by robtattoo

[Handsome Rob]

Oooh.... Next silly question: You hunt?

The reason I don't have pigs as livestock is purely because I hunt.
2 weekend trips per year (usually Florida/Georgia/Alabama) or a week in Texas, gives me enough pork for the entire year, without the cost & concern of raising my own.

The ONLY meat I eat, is stuff that I've hunted or raised myself & The Wife's a vegetarian so I don't need much, but I figure on a base line of 2 hogs plus 2 deer per year, supplemented with small game & fish as the mood takes me! Our tribe of feral chickens mostly gets a pass, but every now & then I need a Korma...

It's a damn sight more fun than farming, plus you have an excuse for a couple of mini vacations! Edited May 19, 2015 by robtattoo

[JAB]

Pigs would be hard for me. They are really intelligent and emotional creatures.

 

Back when I was in high school we raised a couple of pigs for meat - one male and one female.  The female was a stone b*tch from the innermost ring of hell.  She would charge you, sometimes, come up behind and bite you, sometimes and generally had a bad attitude.  She went to the slaughterhouse first and we all kinda celebrated.  The male, on the other hand, was a big pet.  Not that we made him that way, that was just his nature.  The hog pen was in the woods a decent distance from the house so we carried water in gallon jugs to fill the trough.  The male pig would pick up the empty jugs and toss them in the air, trying to get us to play 'fetch' with him.  He would nuzzle us, wanting to be petted and was just generally a very good-natured critter.  When we loaded him up and took him to the slaughterhouse, my mom cried and my dad - who had been involved in such things on and off all his life - said to me in a sad tone, "Well, this is the last animal I'll ever raise for food."

[Caster]

Fencing for you food?????

 

 

 

[mikegideon]

Hog semen. :ugh:

 

:puke:

[bersaguy]

I was raise from age 13 till serving my country on a Farm/Ranch in Cheatham county and every fall we would have a neighborhood killing weekend and several neighbors would gather at the farm and bring their animals and it would be hog and beef killing time from 4AM on Saturday till it was all done late Sunday night. Women worked in the house and men outside. Was like an assembly line. We would put down a heifer at about 1000 lbs and three hogs about 225/250 each. It was my job to put each animal down My old Remington 22 single shot never made a hog squeal and every cow went down with out a kick. Now as I look back I don't know now if I could do that again but back then it was just what you do to eat on a farm/ranch along with a huge garden............... :up:  

Edited May 19, 2015 by bersaguy

[none]

How good's your fence?
I know from experience that if a pig wants to be out, it'll be out.
Have you thought about sheep?
As suggested, Craigslist is a really good bet. Although at this time of year, be prepared to pay a premium. Calves are a few weeks away from being finished, lambs are nearly ready & are ready for market by the end of May.
The best time of year to buy is late fall, if you can wait a while. Everything's half the price it is now due to feed costs!

Had not thought about sheep? As you stated it might be wiser to wait till fall. I do plan on taking a deer this season we can literally hunt off our back deck. They seem to go back and forth to the lake down the same lane over and over.

[JAB]

I know from experience that if a pig wants to be out, it'll be out.

 

 

Truth.  We had to track ours down through the woods and to the cow pasture next to us - and drive them home with swats from a switch - more than once.  The male would go home pretty easily but that danged mean ol' female made you work for it.  In fact, if I remember right, between the time she went in the freezer and the time we took him to the slaughterhouse (we wanted to eat most of the meat from her before we took him) he never once got out.

Edited May 20, 2015 by JAB