Have neighbor who brings me "free range" pig...it is nice!I have never hunted one, but we have them around here as well. I may try it before long.
I need better neighbors!Have neighbor who brings me "free range" pig...it is nice!
This is another reason that I am trying to get even more pickier about my food! The stress hormone levels alone that have to be produced by these animals to be so confined, needless to mention the inability to keep this clean and the potential for spreading diseases! How can anything with so many thousands of animals considered to be anything other than a factory! To me...this is not food! And, cattle feed lots...chickens...these factories are not only detrimental to us, but to the workers and to the animals. People who have been exposed to just the smell of chicken houses, and those cattle lots can testify the smell carries for miles!
I really can't taste much difference, but I feel healthier!just drive past an intensive chicken shed...the smell is horrendous!! that's another reason I wont buy supermarket chickens...apart from it being baby meat and cheap rubbish, I have to pay about TWICE the amount for my free range chicken than someone who buys supermarket chicken but I always say the difference is in the taste.
My mother told me as a teenager the school took them to a slauter house in Louisville Ky., she didn't eat meat for a long long time. It's hard to imagine a face on a Big Mac, but some animal lost it's life for people to enjoy one. That dosent bother me too much, the conditions they raise the animals in does. My rabbits are fed really well, and have roomy cages that are clean, and they get to socialize with the other rabbits. I almost feel guilty as I give them lots of my extra produce from the garden, where I sometimes feel I should be giving it to other people.My son-in-law and daughter live and work on a hog farm. His employer raises pigs for slaughter. His employer's father, on the same property, keeps breeding sows. The number of hogs they fit into those buildings is insane. The waste is atrocious. They stack the pens so the ones above eliminate on the ones underneath. And, of course, there's the food they are given - gmo corn with antibiotics and hormones added into it.
I have never liked the taste of white pork, but love bacon and ham. I just don't eat it because I've always known of the way it is raised and gets to market.
Cows, pigs, poultry - it's big business. People have to eat.
You are probably looking at $210 in feed a month for a cow. We feed sweet feed, corn, pasture and hay. Last time I was at the auction house cattle prices were around $1.30 - $1.50 a lb, but we haven't been in a few years and I have heard prices has gone sky high. The two that you see in my pic were both about $100 a piece (newborn calves are not sold by the lb here) and that was 3 years ago.Did u ever do a benefit-cost analysis? And would you mind sharing? Estimates are good enough for me, I would just like to get an idea. Im really curious and interested in getting into raising a meat bull.
You are probably looking at $210 in feed a month for a cow. We feed sweet feed, corn, pasture and hay. Last time I was at the auction house cattle prices were around $1.30 - $1.50 a lb, but we haven't been in a few years and I have heard prices has gone sky high. The two that you see in my pic were both about $100 a piece (newborn calves are not sold by the lb here) and that was 3 years ago.
I'd rather have NO neighbours.I need better neighbors!
I guess that would probably be about right. I am not sure how much pasture land rents for though and I do know that the figure $910 for a 1300 lb cow is on the low side, at least around here.Thanks! Thats not too bad. How long did it take from cattle to 1800# bull?
Heres an interesting link i found. Would you concur with these approximates?
http://www.farmandranchguide.com/ne...cle_94e22c5a-4601-11e1-8214-0019bb2963f4.html
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