Is there some deep philosophical explanation for why phenol is the most important ingredient in both picric acid and in sulfonamide? Is it that with great ingredients comes great responsibility?
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Bryant RedHawk wrote:Having been down this road myself I can tell you that you need to wait for animals because you want all the infrastructure needed for those animals already completed prior to getting them to your farm.
Not having everything in place only created extra headaches and building work that can't wait until you actually have time. Fences also need to be in place and ready for use, there is nothing worse than to watch your animals disappear because your fence wasn't set up just right.
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Is there some deep philosophical explanation for why phenol is the most important ingredient in both picric acid and in sulfonamide? Is it that with great ingredients comes great responsibility?
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Is there some deep philosophical explanation for why phenol is the most important ingredient in both picric acid and in sulfonamide? Is it that with great ingredients comes great responsibility?
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Ryan Hobbs wrote:We are talking over our options.
The Pig Option: Justin Rhodes has a video out on youtube about raising pigs in a small space which he calls the "pigport". Nothing too crazy. And we have considered something a little bigger to add a wallow. Carports are expensive, but we could build them a little wood shelter, and pigs are not fussy; or prone to get killed by raccoons and birds of prey. I already have the posts for the enclosure, I can use woven fence for it. Pig wire is half as expensive as sheep wire, and I would need only a half as much of it. Justin uses deep bedding. What I can get is leaves and hay. Still working on finding woodchips. The watering system could harvest roof rain from my feed shed. The feed and water are right there. No carrying feed and water out to a distant pasture system.
The Meat Chicken Option: Red Rangers, an electric poultry net, and a chickshaw. This one has less financial outlay, but is more work. I would have to move them often, even when I don't feel well. However, They are very productive. We eat about 50 chickens a year. Assuming 10% loss to predators and mistakes, we would need 60 meat birds. They would improve the pasture in prep for eventual sheep.
We are not ready for any other critters. Ducks need a turtle-free pond. Egg layer chickens need more financial outlay than meat birds. Sheep and Goats need lots of equipment. Cows we don't have the space for.
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Ryan Hobbs wrote:We are talking over our options.
The Pig Option: Justin Rhodes has a video out on youtube about raising pigs in a small space which he calls the "pigport". Nothing too crazy. And we have considered something a little bigger to add a wallow. Carports are expensive, but we could build them a little wood shelter, and pigs are not fussy; or prone to get killed by raccoons and birds of prey. I already have the posts for the enclosure, I can use woven fence for it. Pig wire is half as expensive as sheep wire, and I would need only a half as much of it. Justin uses deep bedding. What I can get is leaves and hay. Still working on finding woodchips. The watering system could harvest roof rain from my feed shed. The feed and water are right there. No carrying feed and water out to a distant pasture system.
The Meat Chicken Option: Red Rangers, an electric poultry net, and a chickshaw. This one has less financial outlay, but is more work. I would have to move them often, even when I don't feel well. However, They are very productive. We eat about 50 chickens a year. Assuming 10% loss to predators and mistakes, we would need 60 meat birds. They would improve the pasture in prep for eventual sheep.
We are not ready for any other critters. Ducks need a turtle-free pond. Egg layer chickens need more financial outlay than meat birds. Sheep and Goats need lots of equipment. Cows we don't have the space for.
Cost Comparison Between Pigs and Chickens
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Suscovitch Chicken Tractor - approx $50 holds 60 meat birds
60 red rangers and starter kit from Murray McMurray - $203
Country Road chick starter-grower feed - $12.29 per 50lbs at RK
Country Road Scratch Grains Feed 50 lbs - $9.99 at RK
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$253 plus feed
720lbs of feed per 60 chickens over 8 weeks
60 chickens dressed are approx 360lbs of meat
$176.98 for 60 chickens per 8 weeks
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1x 330ft long woven field fence - $157
lumber pig shade - excess wirefrom fence supports a tarp roof over a scrap wood frame
posts - already have
4x Water/ feed pans $36
4x feeder pigs - $200
Nutrena Country Feeds Whole Life Pig Feed - $13.99 per 50lbs at RK
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$393 plus feed
feed req for growout is 700(if slopped)-900lbs(not slopped) per year per pig
4 pigs dressed are 1200lbs of meat
$195.86 per pig annual feed cost for slopped pigs
Is there some deep philosophical explanation for why phenol is the most important ingredient in both picric acid and in sulfonamide? Is it that with great ingredients comes great responsibility?
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James 1:19-20
Not all those who wander are lost - J. R. R. Tolkien
Bryant RedHawk wrote:Hogs that weight 700 lbs. live weight are going to dress out at around 250- 325 meat only. (no bones)
When we butchered our last hog it had a live weight of 180 and it dressed out at 65 lbs. meat.
The lesson we learned was how heavy bones are, the head alone weighted almost 50 lbs.
Andrew Mayflower wrote:You won't get 360lbs of chicken meat. Even CRX won't dress out to 6lbs average at 8 weeks. With Red Randers you'll like get 4lbs dressed absolute best case, probably 3.5-3.75lbs, at 8 weeks. If you want a 6lb carcass plan on at least 12 weeks.
Is there some deep philosophical explanation for why phenol is the most important ingredient in both picric acid and in sulfonamide? Is it that with great ingredients comes great responsibility?
Travis Johnson wrote:I think at some point, all of us have faced a particular problem, and we all wanted to just throw in the towel. It really does not matter what the problems are, they just add up to a sense of hopelessness, and like you, most of the time it ends up being someone we love, or admire, or deeply respect that says something against our dreams, and we feel so hurt...or at least second guess ourselves.
.... (shortened for brevity, but I did read the whole thing) ....
If you do not have a written farm plan, I suggest you (and others) make one as soon as possible. It really forces a person to think aspects of their farm, thoroughly.
Is there some deep philosophical explanation for why phenol is the most important ingredient in both picric acid and in sulfonamide? Is it that with great ingredients comes great responsibility?
Ryan Hobbs wrote:
Travis Johnson wrote:I think at some point, all of us have faced a particular problem, and we all wanted to just throw in the towel. It really does not matter what the problems are, they just add up to a sense of hopelessness, and like you, most of the time it ends up being someone we love, or admire, or deeply respect that says something against our dreams, and we feel so hurt...or at least second guess ourselves.
.... (shortened for brevity, but I did read the whole thing) ....
If you do not have a written farm plan, I suggest you (and others) make one as soon as possible. It really forces a person to think aspects of their farm, thoroughly.
I'm starting work on that plan today. I thought I had a good mental plan; and my garden plans are already made with maps and spreadsheets, I just have to consolidate those. But my brain fooled me, I thought this was gonna be easy. Not physically easy, I expected to work hard. But I didn't expect all the supplies to cost so much, or that we wouldn't be able to haul what we needed, or to have to fix the house right away. (It was inspected 2x and got a clean bill of health, now I'm working on insulation, getting the chimney cleaned, replacing a pipe that rusted through, fixing a leaky faucet, etc...) Food costs more than expected too, especially because my whole garden failed and was taken over by grass and weeds. The only things that came up were beans and squash. But by the time they did, the grass was already 6 inches deep. It was my fault for being in a rush and having it disc-ed and tilled. I spent about $300 on that garden and got 3 zucchini and a cucumber out of it. No beans appeared on the bean plants.
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