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[VINCENT]

Tex i will bring you a bottle of booze. But all i need is sweet tea and coffe to drink. I've had my share of spirits. Hell, ive had my share, and your share, and ad's share, and aa's share.......... You boys couldnt keep up if i was still a prac ticing professional drinker.

[VINCENT]

I sent several hours in the yard yesterday with my animals.
#1)the pig is huge and needs to go to butcher but he only take in animals monday thru friday and i work all week.- i'm still trying to figure out that one.
#2)i cleaned the yard- its amazing how stuff you set aside just builds up.
#3) i did some repairs to the chicken pen/lock down- ive never had any intruders, but time and weather have taken their toll and provided some entry points. Thats all fixed now.
#4)i moved some bunnies around, and moved the males clear to the other side of the yard. With the females in new/different cages i had one of the two females immediatly begin pulling hair. Already had a little nest this morning.--- wish me luck
#5)found one of my hens sitting on a nest of 8 eggs. She is one of the piar that went broody a few months ago. When she and her sister hatched out the chicks, the other sister took over raising the babies. Apparently shge has decided its her tunr now.
#6)what little egg production i had going on(3-4 per day, has all but ceased. 1 egg in the past 2 days. Hoping for more today, but not likely since the cold spell hit this week.
#7 decided i need to build a larger enclosed area for the chickens, so i need to be on the look out for more materials to recycle, reuse, and repurpose for covered/enclosed pen building. Then i will move the current one. Or perhaps get 1 or 2 turkeys again next year. They always do great until i let them out into the yard.

[Tex]

Vincent don't worry about that stuff. When you come thouugh, I need lots of whiskey just to tolerate you. And yes, at the moment I have several different Canadian varieties.

Vincent, I hope to have the new turkey pen finished tomorrow. Things sorta went south around here this past week, but everything is getting sorted out. I did get the panels and the little hut ste up for the turkeys to shelter in. We just have to get some welded wire panel wired to the livestock panels to hold them in. At the moment the birds probably weigh around 20 pounds. I hope to get them a little bigger before the holidays. If things work out, we are planning to get into turkeys a little more next year. I would like to start raising some simply for variety.

Tex

[AD]

i cant wait to vist tex

I hear he ran out of whiskey, so no reason to go see him as far as I am concerned.

[Tex]

As long as you promise to leave. No, I really mean it. You can't stay, Vincent. If you sign up for an internship we might could work something out, but even then, you still have to leave.


Tex

[VINCENT]

i cant wait to vist tex

[Tex]

HaHa, You know I love you, Brother. I'm just flippin manure your way.

I was telling the Native about your rabbits not breeding and she had a good idea. Find omeone with a proven buck and put your doe in with him. If she gets bred, then you need to get rid of your buck and get a new one. If she doesn't breed, then get rid of her and find a new doe.

I found a nice big hutch on Craigslist the other day in the small town to the south of us. We were needing another one to put the young ones in when we wean them off and feed them out. The people asked me If I wanted a New Zealand doe for $20. I thought I was doing good by getting some new bloodlines and this one was purebred. The people's kid raised them for 4H. Anyhow, the Native said we didn't need any new bloodlines yet, so now we have an extra doe. She trades with a gal over NE of here, so she will probably get this new one and we will get some of hers later on. We have our rabbitry at the end of the garden and all of the manure goes right back into production. As the oil companies close off some of the gas wells around here, we are getting some of the bigger buildings. I am hoping to get another one to make some major upgrades to the rabbitry.


Tex

[VINCENT]

the poor girl not only needs glasses, she needs a dog.

Vincent i'm glad jt gave you the go ahead to come out in june. I can't wait to show you what live animals actually look like.


Tex

thats harsh

[Tex]

Dont listen to unseen, you can post right here. quit trying to take all the good looking ones unseenone. obviously she likes me more.

The poor girl not only needs glasses, she needs a dog.

Vincent I'm glad Jt gave you the go ahead to come out in June. I can't wait to show you what live animals actually look like.


Tex

[VINCENT]

It's ok to post links here Julie.. http://www.landrethseeds.com/

Dont listen to unseen, you can post right here. quit trying to take all the good looking ones unseenone. obviously she likes me more.

[unseenone]

It's ok to post links here Julie.. http://www.landrethseeds.com/

[JulieNY]

D. Landreth seed company is a really good place to get heirloom seeds also. They have been around since the 1700's so if they don't know what they are doing by now they never will!

[W.Lynn]

Good luck in all that. Any chance it will take long enough fir JTJT to be doing at least a little better?

[AmericanBTGoG]

Racist.

the pile of corpses continues to grow. i got another coon today. this one was different. it was dark dark. almost entirly black. not the typical silver grey body. dead all the same though.

and eeyore bit the dust.

but he still makes good bait. at least for a few more days.

[Tex]

Vincent, you should talk to the kids dad about money for their school. That really shouldn't be your responsibility alone. He should step up.




Tex