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Busy but good weekend. #8152244
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Had a nice trip to the homestead festival got to hang out with a lot of like minded people was a nice few days and we'll used vacation days.

Came home to theses two new guys in the barn my daughter moved them and momma up from the field when she found them. One buck one doe.
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Walked into my bedroom and discovered the new puppy figured out the dod gore and got away from my daughter a few times. Had some puppy poo to clean up. It's a lazy morning then off for the 2 hr drive to the inlaws to pick up the boys, my truck then I'm off to work nights and the wife and kids head back home.

O when we were gon my youngest got a fish hook stuck in his head made for a fun day for my in-laws. My mother in law was so up set. I laughed it's not his first hook.

Re: Busy but good weekend. [Re: Providence Farm] #8152273
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Look at those cuties!

Re: Busy but good weekend. [Re: Providence Farm] #8152276
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sounds like a great family weekend

Re: Busy but good weekend. [Re: Providence Farm] #8152303
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Did you go to the one in Tennessee?

They have me teaching homesteading classes at Quailcon this year. It officially became a Quailcon and Homesteading conference.

Recently, most of my American customers at my farm are big into homesteading. It's becoming like a new craze for many white people. I've just done it because it's what I've been interested in my whole life, long before I ever knew it had a name. The stuff some of the people have read or seen videos of and believe is nuts. Some "experts" consider themselves experts after watching one video or reading one article.

Keith

Re: Busy but good weekend. [Re: KeithC] #8152359
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Originally Posted by KeithC
Did you go to the one in Tennessee?

They have me teaching homesteading classes at Quailcon this year. It officially became a Quailcon and Homesteading conference.

Recently, most of my American customers at my farm are big into homesteading. It's becoming like a new craze for many white people. I've just done it because it's what I've been interested in my whole life, long before I ever knew it had a name. The stuff some of the people have read or seen videos of and believe is nuts. Some "experts" consider themselves experts after watching one video or reading one article.

Keith


Yes it was the one in TN at Roy's. My wife face painted for the 2nd year there and was booked again for next year. It's always a good time with great people,. The kids are always thoughtful and well spoken and parents are friendly and polite. A totally different crowd than most festivals made up of the general population. It's a working vacation she loves it as do I it's the best festival of the year as far as enjoyment. She paints for 5 hrs a day at a slightly reduction of her hourly rate and paints as many kidos as she can each day tell 2 then we enjoy the festival the rest of the day. Normal the first evening maybe 3 to 4 hrs then out for a snack or dinner and to out lodging.
We miss a lot of the good speakers when painting but still catch up with them around the event sometimes.

Saw some fence I may get, easy and fast to put in plastic t and h post for high tinsel look fast and easy to put in and no need to buy insulators. Guy estimated $1.70 a foot for 7 strained would be my cost. Thinking about adding a jersey or Guernsey milk cow but the mini jerseys may be better with less milk and smaller and easier to handle but the cost is very high. Wife and I enjoyed another talk from Joel Salatin. And to your point of everyone wanting to be homesteaders his latest book is Homestead tsunami. It was growing but really took off during COVID and yes there are a bunch of experts out there but my wife and I have been interested for decades and know the true experts in the movements. It's your typical event with a bunch of vendors selling their homestead invention related products. Several well-known individuals getting talks in multiple tents throughout the day and then in the evening pretty good music festival with several different groups or bands in the evening. Roy has a school house, event center, and nice place for the outside event. He is a song a writer with a lot of musical talent himself and a lot of connections in the industry his concert hall event center is nice and the schoolhouse he built primarily for his daughter Indiana who has downs and homeschools her and other kids there. They have a fences area with rolls of the bottom less troth for each kid to plant for their gardens area, animal barn, milking pallor, root cellar that looks like a hobbit hole house, building built for a corn pit for kids to play in.

It's a great place full of food folks well put together. Plenty of clean porta Jon's hand wash stations, food trucks you name it .

Featherman, has their prototype copy of aluma coop there and they will be $1,500 less. They move as easy and bolt together instead of being welded but that's better for shipping. I don't think it's as well made as aluma coup and doesn't come with feeders and waterers those are add on options that reduce the savings when added in. Yet it's nice to see competition hopefully that brings down the price point. I think aluma coops are better made but won't pay that price. I may buy the feather man due to price. My meat bird pens are heavy and hard for my wife to move and it's worth the money to save here from pulling her back again.

If you get a chance I would say go to the one in TN. Advanced admissions are about 50% off. Ours is free since they hire us to come.

Re: Busy but good weekend. [Re: Providence Farm] #8152380
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My wife and I thought we may want a mini Jersey, some things to keep in mind, Minis have an udder closer to the ground which means its harder to get a milker on cleanly. It takes just as long to milk a mini as a full sized. Extra milk can be fed to a couple pigs and it's way easier to find or replace a full sized Jersey. Full sized Jersey's can also be bred to beef bulls, calves will make great beef. We have a pair of Full sized Jersey's due this fall, we still need to figure out the parlor and milk system but I'm excited to milk them, atleast for awhile, once I'm burnt out I'll just leave the calves on them full time, they're both bred to my Hereford bull.

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Originally Posted by Donnersurvivor
My wife and I thought we may want a mini Jersey, some things to keep in mind, Minis have an udder closer to the ground which means its harder to get a milker on cleanly. It takes just as long to milk a mini as a full sized. Extra milk can be fed to a couple pigs and it's way easier to find or replace a full sized Jersey. Full sized Jersey's can also be bred to beef bulls, calves will make great beef. We have a pair of Full sized Jersey's due this fall, we still need to figure out the parlor and milk system but I'm excited to milk them, atleast for awhile, once I'm burnt out I'll just leave the calves on them full time, they're both bred to my Hereford bull.


Your correct. I was just thinking how easy it is for even a mid size jersey to raise its head and break an arm or something they are so strong. Small ones would be a little easier for my wife to handle but after talking today I think we are leaning towards mid size for many of the reason you list.

I saw a fellow that had dug a hole in his barn and put a barrel in it cut off in hight and bottom so he could get lower to milk without the back and knees bothering him so much.

We have dairy goats and have hand milked and machine. The machine has been broken for a while. I'm going to tell you milking one is ok but get into 3 or more and my forearms start looking like popeye. But even one very heavy milker we had that would give a gallon that one alone would have those forearms burning. I'm sure I will get another much nicer milking machine when it's time to milk cows. Saw a few at the festival that looked nice.

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We are currently looking for a machine that can milk two at once, it's a dream but I would love to have a small parlor and a bulk tank so I could store my milk for 2-3 days then pasteurize it all in a big batch to make cheese, butter, etc. All the Micro dairy stuff is pretty big $$$. I don't think it would ever pay for itself but I guess there's worse hobbies. When I was 15 my first "real job" was milking cows, I did it for 3 years and enjoyed it immensely, I would of made a career out of it if it paid better.

I have a couple customers who sold their lake houses to live the "homestead" life, they said the same thing recently, "its more work than we thought". I think theyll both be selling their country places soon and moving back to lake houses. Couple neighbors recently listed their places with 10 and 20 acres for sale, neither have sold, I think the homesteading phase is slowly dying here but I could be wrong.

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