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BnmnG Farming · 6M ago

Merging with my Main Site

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BnmnG Farming · 1Y ago

The Hay Bale

Ben turned his pickup around carefully because Wayne’s dog was barking and running circles around it. When the truck was in a good spot, Ben got out while Wayne, with a hay spear on his tractor, picked a large round bale of peanut hay from his warehouse. The dog watched Ben carefully. A large, black
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BnmnG Farming · 1Y ago

Feeding Goats during a Drought

Except for Winter, when we buy peanut hay, we feed the goats by moving them around. We can usually leave them in one spot for about three days but there’s been so little grass growing lately that there isn’t even enough food in a paddock to last a day. So we’ve been augmenting with trees [...]
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BnmnG Farming · 1Y ago

Cute but Stupid

hardware_ramp Originally uploaded by bnmng Ducklings will drown in a container, even if you’ve ensured that they can get out of the container by waving your hands around and scaring them out. After you leave, they’ll hop back in and, without the wavy-handed boogie-man threatening them, will swim aro
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BnmnG Farming · 1Y ago

On the Injured List

Jay broke his leg. Since chickens have a ‘no excuses’ policy, the other roosters have been harassing him mercilessly, so we put him in a cage. We thought it would be a good idea to put him with a batch of chicks. After a few days, we decided he wasn’t happy with the situation and [...]
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BnmnG Farming · 1Y ago

Duck Motherhood

Our usual plan is to let the ducks raise their own ducklings. This usually lasts about two weeks before the mother looses track of her brood and the ducklings eventually wander off to do their part in providing nourishment to natural fauna. It’s amazing to me that the Muscovy breed actually manages
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BnmnG Farming · 2Y ago

Problematic Pigs and Parasites

The pigs gave me double heartache during a week that Sasha was away visiting relatives. First, they started getting out of their large pen, and second, I saw that they had parasites. The parasites are large white worms (that’s what they’re called as well as an apt description). Discovering them is a
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BnmnG Farming · 2Y ago

World Hunger: One Solution is a Leading Cause

I submitted the following for one of my classes. The assignment was to write a “Cause and Effect” paper. World hunger persists despite tremendous scientific advancements. A person might think that we haven’t yet figured out how to produce massive quantities of food. That belief, if it were true, wou
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BnmnG Farming · 2Y ago

Sus Destructivus

We’ve been very lax about the fact that our three little pigs can get out of the pen by squeezing under the fence. They’ve been harmless until today when they tore up the front lawn. Luckily, we don’t really have a front lawn because we haven’t finished the house, but the mess they made will [...]
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