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today i gave everyone copper. i can't give it to them in their mineral because i also have sheep, so a couple of times a year they get a pill shoved down their throats. unfortunately i can't use a bolus gun because i can't find one small and long enough for a dwarf goat (im sure they're out there i just haven't found the right esoteric website where they sell them) so it's a rodeo every single time

anyway now i smell like buck and my bad hip is pretty mad about the abuse i put it through

#i got them to take the copper in fig newtons Once and then it never worked again #ag talk

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god shut his eyes away but life went on living

#we got a lot of snow that year and it's just so stunning #i love snow it's one of my favourite weathers #it's cold and dry and quiet and beautiful #song: all that matters - blanco white

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launching a zine I’ve been dying to make! Submission link: https://forms.gle/o1ZH7X9KQAyKE2Lx8

I STRONGLY encourage those who are disabled, BIPOC, LGBTQ, or members of other marginalized groups to submit! I hugely want to emphasize diverse backgrounds and the things that work for us as opposed to mainstream farm communities.

the finished zine will be available for free online, and - fingers crossed I can make it happen - physical copies will be available to purchase with all funds being donated to support Gray Fox Farm (GoFundMe for that coming soon!)

Wanna help further? Have experience formatting zines or other documents? shoot me a message to volunteer to help with reviewing and formatting submissions!

Let me know if you have any questions!

[image text: The New Farm Journal Zine, Looking for Submissions

A modern answer to historical farm periodicals prioritizing community, responsible land stewardship, anti-colonialism, and anti-capitalism.

Seeking:

-Information articles & how-to’s / DIYs (the main focus!)

-Insightful anecdotes

-Illustrations (or other art)

Potential topic suggestions: Livestock, food crops, native wildlife, hunting / trapping / fishing, foraging, recipes, homesteading skills, urban farming, rural community building, local food systems (and so much more!)

Submissions due June 1.]

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If I was to do a small write up about my experience rotating goats on five acres using electric net fence over several years what questions would people want answered?

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:))))

#rats #i breed rats for snake food and these are the newest jellybeans #licorice flavoured it seems

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we are clear for takeoff on runway four

#my beautiful miss clover #sister to violet and eater of way more feed than she should have eaten #you may recognise her as the avatar for this blog #her face is also on the debit card for the farm bank acct :) #mini nubian #goat #throwback thursday #also for clarification: she is dead now this is an old photo

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ok NOW it feels like spring for real. the seasons haven't turned until there's beeping birds on my porch

#i was so sad my goose eggs in the incubator didn't make it so seeing the little gosling with all the ducks was so 🥺🥺 #there were two more that were dark inside under mom so i left her to sit them and see if they hatch #ducks #muscovey duck #gosling

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ear thief is escalating

#rabbit #kits #show rabbit #blanc de hotot #stole his whole ear right off his head 😔

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good afternoon!

#pbbttghh. valentine #she had a rough start in life but came to live with me at the same time as hallow so they grew up together #valentine kidded in late june and got so stressed out during the fourth of july ''''''celebrations''''' that she bloated #my spouse was in vietnam that week and i had to deal with....all of that. all by myself #the fourth of july is always a shitshow at my house because my immediate neighbours don't understand the concept of respecting animals #we've asked them a million times 'hey don't fire artillery over our yard it freaks the animals out' but they don't care #i lost about twelve rabbits last year as well as my goat despite moving all my growouts into my house #i have to do this every year. i have to cram every single high-risk rabbit into four carriers and bring them in #like as many animals as possible. crowded on top of one another in the carriers. #it's NOT GOOD but that's the only chance they have of not just dropping dead or bloating to death from stress #can't wait to see who dies this year!!!!!!!!! i hate everything! #anyway this is val and her two kids that were orphaned at about three weeks old #a friend took them because i just couldn't deal with more bottle babies that year after wellie daisy and maple #i miss valentine. she was such a sweet girl #one teat had a moonspot on it and it was funny

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it's giving kansas

it's almost starting to look like something

#barnquest 2k24

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won't you please spare a single Leaf for a starving boy :(

#this is betty's younger twin brother who is in the freezer now #but he was a big sweet boy #it's so funny that they look identical. like down to the 'one random white spot on their side that should not have been on both of them' #in basically the EXACT same spot. it's wild #kathadin sheep

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America is absolutely disconnected to meat

I think I realized this when I had went to see my dad and stepmom one day and asked if I could place my hawk’s food. (A rabbit leg) in the freezer. My step mom was disgusted by the idea that a leg from an animal was in the freezer meanwhile an entire chicken was sitting in the fridge.

Your rotisserie chicken is an entire chicken.

Your pork chop is a hunk of pig.

Your rack of ribs are from a cow’s rib cage.

It’s like Americans view meat as colorful red and pink hued shapes that just exist and come into the world packaged.

You see so many people getting harassed or even having their content flagged for showing how to process or field dress meat when it’s at it’s freshest. Right after culling. For some reason this is considered “gore” by many folks when in reality it’s no more different from plucking a processed chicken after cull.

You also notice that Americans have an idea of what’s normal meat and what isn’t normal meat and there’s racist undertones that I’ve noticed in a lot of these comments left on foreign cooking videos

You have people that claim a video of a man in a different country preparing something like this is “eating a dog.” Meanwhile this is roasted goat.

You have people who’s only perception of an edible fish is in fillet or fish stick form and they call something like this nasty because “Eww there’s a head!” Yeah.. most animals have heads..

Some of ya’ll need to realize what your meat looks like prior to processing and that it’s prepared in different ways. We also need to erase the stigma behind non traditional meats.

#i always remember one time a coworker of my dad's gave us three whole ducks that he'd hunted #i think they didn't have heads but they still had the feet on #and my mom freaked out when she opened the freezer to see six little duck feet sticking out at her #she won't eat my rabbits because she played with them as babies #and dead rabbits look too much like the animal they are for her #i bet she won't eat my lamb or goat either #if you can't look your food in the face and thank it for its sacrifice you need to stop fucking eating meat #full stop. #ag talk

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it's almost starting to look like something

#ag talk #it'll be done tomorrow....and then i guess the builders show up?? #honestly? wack #would be sooooo nice to be moved in by summer #barnquest 2k24

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guess i'm mom again

#baby daisy and maple :) #speaking of horrible things happening last year: their mother was euthanised to try and cull out CL #unfortunately it's still here...but i feel like i did the right thing in trying #so i bottle raised them from day one because i wanted the least chance of transmission #we'll find out this year whether or not they got it anyway lol but i just kinda assume everyone has or will have it eventually #but i really loved their mom (violet's sister) and there was other stuff going on in the personal life that made that weekend...rough #mini nubian #kids #maple #daisy

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tweedle dee here made a nest under the front porch steps so now every time i leave or enter my home i get my feet blasted off by lasers

#yes that is her name. her sister is tweedle dumb #they look alike so they get whichever name we're feeling at the time #anyway! broody muscovey ducks make little pewpew noises #it's cute #ducks #muscovey duck #honestly not the worst spot one of my ducks has chosen for a nest #there's a decent chance she won't get eaten by something

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it was a lot to take in for some eyes from east texas but all i could see was you

#these are violet's kids from last year and baby wellie :) #last year was.......bad. like in almost every way #we had a lot of animal disease issues and personal life problems and my body was having issues... #but the animals made it better in some ways #but man there's a lot of 'country song lyrics underneath farm photos' sets from last year haha #i was just trying to make it through the storm #(song: all i see is you - shane smith and the saints) #wellie #kathadin sheep #mini nubian #spider /

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are there other....ag people on here (that aren't people i am already mututals with lol) that don't suck. tryna make community or whatever

#idk what to tag this #i would ping the farming etc tags but i just KNOW that's full of people i don't really wanna associate with