\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0I hope that each of you didn’t miss a wicked good meal on Thanksgiving.\u00a0 Ours was spent with family and friends, smoked turkey & brisket with all of the fixins.\u00a0 No, I did not eat an entire raisin cream pie like I used to.\u00a0 I just can’t eat as much as I used to on any one setting.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 One of the most over-looked feeding strategies of show livestock is missing a feeding.\u00a0 We all preach the importance of a regular feeding schedule.\u00a0 However, there comes a time that one needs to skip a feeding.\u00a0 Especially, with a picky eater.\u00a0 Sometimes, a missed feeding helps them get hungry and therefore, get “right in the head” about knocking the bottom out of a feed pan.\u00a0 When I first get goats on feed, I like to skip a feeding, here and there.\u00a0 One–it helps build an appetite.\u00a0 Two–one quickly learns which one’s are going to be good eaters and which ones are going to be picky turds.\u00a0 I also do this with hogs.\u00a0 I like to do this early in the feeding period that way they are ready to eat when it comes time to push.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Last Wednesday, I had to take my pickup to Perry and have a bale bed installed on it.\u00a0 Since it was in Perry, I had the internet guru come pick me up and haul me around.\u00a0 We ran over to REI in Stillwater in order to get my semen tank filled with nitrogen.\u00a0 Guess what?\u00a0 REI is no longer.\u00a0 It sold and is now Bullnanza Stud Service.\u00a0 Yes, they will still be doing small ruminant services.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0While in Perry, we took a look at the Milligan keeper bucks and those that he will sell at some point.\u00a0 There is a couple of wicked young bucks there.\u00a0 Bob May showed up as well.\u00a0 Bob, Hayden, the Milligans and myself ate a dang good Mexican lunch.\u00a0 The steak ranchero was so filling that I had to miss a meal on Wednesday night.\u00a0 By noon on Thursday, my head was right about eating again.\u00a0 I haven’t missed a meal since.\u00a0 Several meals of turkey tacos.\u00a0 I love those things.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Have a good one today and a better tomorrow.\u00a0 Give thanks that we have the opportunities that we have.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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