BarG's Bull Stuff

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I'm making this 8' fishing table with a sink to go on lake limestone in return for 2 trailer loads of logs. It's only taking one to make the table, plus there good friends.lol I dug my pond after I got my tractor, stock it with bass from a 3 acre lake on family property and catfish from the Trinity river on same property. When my wife has to eat fish for lent or whenever I feed her catfish. Lol

 

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I'll be eating brisket.

 

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Don't get me wrong, my family name on my grandma's side was Christian, and I am a Christian, just not very churchy.

 

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The expected ratio of hens to roosters is supposed to be 50:50 when hatching. It's funny though, just about everyone I know who hatches eggs gets a higher percentage of roosters without fail - usually about 65-70% roosters. I'll have to ask my daughter how her last few batches have turned out ratio wise.
When I was a boy growing up we let our chickens hatch eggs a few times. The expected ratio usually turned out to be out 10% surviving and 90% dog killed. We had a bird dog (weimaraner). He could care less about the adult chickens but he went nuts for the baby chicks, guess he didn't see them as chickens at that stage. He'd grab one and carry it proudly around for about 5 minutes until he couldn't take the excitement and would bite down too hard. There was usually no getting them away from him either. Good looking dog, but a lousy hunter and one of the most hardheaded dogs I've ever known.

Have you ever tried quail, I started last February from some eggs and been doing it since. Fried, barbeque, oven cooked, no bad results yet. Eggs, boiled, sandwiches, pickled. Selling. Their not that hard. I've got it down to cleaning a quail to about 5-6 min. When I got up to 70 quail at one time I had to do about 30 and since I'm down to 25 with 50 in the incubator with a probable 30% hatch rate.

 

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What I learned is self watering and feed just like chickens but different, I let my chickens free range.

 

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Still playing with my sawmill, I acquired 2 good trailer loads of cedar logs for a fish cleaning table to be built in return and I have a return customer bringing 64 logs and we split 50-50. Along with prices for blades and such. Not a bad deal for an old retired grey beard. If you quit working most people just die.