Recent content by TexasJerseyMilker

I like herds of different colored cows and calves. IMO the Angus promoters have really done an unfortunate thing. All meat is red.

What is the benefit of neutering male LGDs?

We were discussing The Amish. Some Amish breed pet dogs for sale. There are many breeders of dogs of all breeds by people that would be considered is puppy mills.

A couple of years ago In the small town 10 miles from here a pitbull attacked and killed a woman who was trying to protect her children. The dog then attacked the police, then returned to maul the body of the woman so they shot it. This was the first time a pit bull killing you read about in the...

Travlr said "Vegans are especially aggravating. I don't know enough to comment on their health claims... but their animal cruelty and environmental information is always inflated, lacking context, or just flat out lies. I can refute them all." The fact is, lab grown meat (without cruelty...

Neighbors dogs messing with cattle or other stock was the original foundation of Shoot Shovel and Shutup.

An article I found https://www.bedlamfarm.com/2021/03/10/the-amish-and-their-animals-the-orthodoxy-and-dogma-of-the-animal-rights-movement/

She is due around May 20, bred AI to a Jersey named Stoney. He has over 4000 daughters. I'm as nervous as a grandma who's girl is fixing to have a baby. Ladies on the keeping a family cow board say this is normal for Jersey first calf heifers. One found her heifer lying flat on the ground...

Two different times I tried to halterbreak half Jersey half Angus heifers to be family milk cows) I tried pressure and release, food rewards, leaving them in pens to step on their own lead ropes, even tried leading them tied to a 4 wheeler. It took all summer and many rope burns because they...

travlr "I haven't seen them in a long time but someone used to make tire-like rubber shoes that you could put on instead of rubber pads under iron shoes." Hoof boots have been around for quite a while. Trail riders use them. I used to put boots on my horses because all I had to do was trim...

Yesterday afternoon HoneyDew was having some kind of episode. I found her lying in the breezway of the barn with a high respiratory rate, a panting breath every 2 second like a woman does when in labor. She was making little mm mm sounds. Her vulva was spreading and all pink inside. I thought...

That is disgusting. "The Sheriff's Office confirmed they were not involved and would not come to the location unless the group trespassed on private property." They should have had the Sheriff arrest them for trespassing. They could drape their advertising banner across the front of their...

The Amish sure have a strong work ethic. But I have heard about and seen pictures of Amish horses that were skinny, used up and poor. They are kind of famous for that. Trotting horses an pavement like that ruins their feet and legs. Why don't the Amish put those rubber pads under the horse shoes...

That is a Kiger mustang. You know, Zebra stallions are dangerous. Ever read about the rancher who got his arm nearly torn off? https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/ohio-zebra-attack-farm-rcna74911 Google zebras dangerous. Although this one running around lose does not have a herd of mares to...