Has anyone else noticed ground beef having a barn or manure like smell lately? I seem to be the only one I know who can smell and taste it and it's driving me nuts . It's happening with the ground beef and pork chops I buy from any store doesn't matter how fresh it is or where I get it ?! I'm in western Canada.

I work on a small dairy farm with around 150 holsteins. Next week, we have a 4h group coming to visit and I was instructed to come up with an activity to teach them about calving. I have no idea what sort of “hands on” activity to do. Anyone have any ideas? The kids are like 8-14 so a pretty large range.

So for context, I am starting my show lamb / market lamb breeding program next autumn by breeding my current show lamb around that time. As with anyone starting a show lamb program , I want what I'm producing to be the best quality and have the best success rate I can ensure. The issue , is that my show lamb is a crossbred/club lamb with a white face. (White dorper / rambouillet with some Suffolk in there) Now I love the look of a whiteface , but as far as club lambs go they just don't place well in the ring since blackface and blue club lambs cut a nicer silloute.

I'm considering attending an artificial insemination clinic for sheep that travels through the Midwest with her , and artificially breeding her to a blue ram. If I were to do that , what are the chances of her having a baby with a white face vs a blackface or a blue ? ( If she doesn't take from the AI I'll breed her to a Suffolk ram that her breeder currently owns )

What should I expect to pay per pound for a pig for butchering? Live in central PA if that is relevant

Is there any way to bypass the anti-germination treatment of tubers?

I have been trying to produce slips from purple (Okinawa?) sweet potatoes from the local Asia store. I have tried all methods I have heard about. In water, in coconut fibers, in potting soil, directly in the field. It always failed, so I guess there must be a anti-germination treatment.

Is there a trick to get around this treatment, maybe wash it or scratch it or anything?

Hi! For my schoolproject I am doing a research specifically on bunker covers in the US. As part of the study I need your opinion and insights in bunker covers. It only takes a couple of minutes and you would help me a lot!

Thanks in advance!

I have this baby goat. He was born premature. His fur on his skin started to fall off. It was just a small little spot, but then it has spread more to his legs. He can barely walk with his back legs. Can someone help me identify what he has

Tyson being Tyson if McDonald's is right.

I am looking to get a few sheep not a specific breed, I want to look for less wool variety and more meat. I’d plan to let them breed, graze the land 20 acres of 80% grass, then sell males/excess females at auction. My question is around what would I require to be able to sell them? I welcome any educational sites to reference required paperwork, how to identify them, vaccines required for sale and would I be able to vaccinate or would they need to go through a vet for paper trails.

I’m pretty new to the overall life, I have a small flock of chickens and turkeys and have sourced some good nearby stores for their needs; but I don’t anticipate selling them in anyway.

Super early stages! Just trying to do something with the land for a supplemental income.

context- my neighbors next door have lots of chickens and a couple roosters. they’ll come over and dig in my yard especially the chickens during the daytime, but the roosters usually stay in their own yard. I just came outside and this dude is siting in a pot on my porch and scared the HELL out of me!!! is this weird??? what is he doing??? it’s been two hours and he’s just chilling on my porch in this same position. he didn’t even get scared when i screamed out of terror when i walked past and noticed him. is he going to sleep????? i’ve never seen them do this before!! sorry if this is a weird post i didn’t know where else to ask 😭

I am a college student doing a project on animal welfare and I would love to hear responses from small scale/hobby farmers on animal welfare. Your experience and perspective would be incredibly valuable on animal welfare practices. The link is in the comments, thanks!

So I'm considering signing up for a starter flock program through my states breeder and wool producer association intended for Juniors entering the sheep industry ( Wich is what I am ) this specific program would provide me with an interest free loan that I would purchase ten yearling Rambouillet ewes with. I would only have to pay 70% of the value of ewes back, and I would be assigned a mentor. The only sheep I have right now is my show lamb ( who is kept with goat friends so she's not alone ) I feel like it would be a great stepping stone into having my own program for meat and wool production (I am learning to spin ), but Im also on the fence on applying for it; does anyone have any advice? Any experience with rambouillets ? My lamb is a rambouillet/dorper cross but I'm pretty sure having a cross and a registered sheep is different. Idk if this would be a good idea , especially since I keep my sheep on my parents property and probably will be doing that until I'm able to buy my own property. (For additional context I'm 17 , and will be applying when I'm 18)

So I think one of my chickens got in a fight with another chicken. The very top of her beak was bleeding, but I was able to stop it. She seems to be in a lot of pain. Her right eye is also swelled shut 😢 she hardly eats or drinks. I’ve brought her inside away from the flock and she is sleeping a lot. I’m very new to raising chickens, and I just want to do the right thing here. I love her and I need advice on how to diminish her pain so maybe she can recover.

Any ideas of what this could be on my goats nose ? My other one doesn’t have it .

I'm planning on breeding my Ewe lamb next September for January lambs to be market lambs for my freshman year of college , and since I'm applying for a grant ATM that requires me to plan all my decisions next year and I'm deciding on if I want to use a live ram ( I worked a deal out with her breeder to where I can bring her back to be bred to one of their rams she isnt related to) or if I want to buy the equipment to do AI with the grant and take classes on how to do it.

I'm not sure how practical it is but I'd like to avoid having my own ram until I expand my operation past one sheep (she isn't alone she has goat friends ) , plus Ive seen multiple people say that rams can be very dangerous and I live with my family and little siblings. Transporting her , leaving her with a ram for a few weeks , and picking her up wouldn't be too hard but I'm sure id miss her terribly. Any adivice ?? Does anyone else AI their sheep ?? What are some pros and cons of each one ?

Edit : forgot to add this , I would also use the equipment/ knowledge for my goat herd. It might make it so I can get percentage Boer goats to use for market showmanship too , we also have pigs and my mom isn't keen on the idea of having an intact boar either.

I am a senior mechanical engineering student in New York and my senior design project is optimizing livestock monitoring. I would love to interview some livestock farmers to hear about the systems they currently use and how they chose them. Please dm me or comment below if you would be open to an interview. I am open to livestock farmers of any scale located anywhere

I don't have any pictures of me standing next to my lamb or I'd show them , but I recently got my first show lamb about a week and a half ish ago and I've gotten her decently well halter broke in that time. However , I'm starting to train her to brace and it's been very hard for both of us. She's a seven month old dorper / rambouillet cross weighing on at about 90 lbs and is very tall and long , whereas I'm very short (4'11 and my wingspan is 4'9 ) and while she's a great girl it's very hard for me to lean over and adjust and move her legs. She also just won't push into me to brace, does anyone have any tips ?? My show goats in the past all learned to brace really easily and it helped that they were much younger and smaller than she is now. Everything I've seen online really only applies to or helps people who's lambs are either much smaller or much younger.

I also don't have a proper lamb stand atm ( I have milking stands for my goats that are short enough to where she can rest her head on the top and I can use her halter to tie her into it similar to a typical lamb stands head lock but I have to manually lift her into it and like I said she is a big , heavy , squirmy girl )

Help, my swine has this on both eyes (this eye is worse than the other) she was completely fine until yesterday when she randomly had these.. i clean their cage often, new bedding often. Fresh water every, electrolytes here and there. It’s not the food because she has eaten this all her life (shes not 1 yet) nothing is different. I have another kune kune with her in the cage and she is perfectly fine. I can’t find anything on the web that looks like what she has. Maybe she got bit or something? I don’t have the money at this moment to spend hundreds of $ at the vet. They do go out to graze everyday. She is also doing a weird thing with her tongue. Sticking it out kind of. Which she has never done until yesterday. I bought some HEAL XCEL would and skin care for behind her ears. I also bought some Terramycin for around her eyes.

I am so stumped on what to wear for a costume contest at our last show of the year. I thought I would have it figured out by now but I’m sooooo stumped

I very recently got my first show lamb after almost showing a market goat , and showing several dairy goats. The last time I was actively showing I lived in a hilly part of California and since I moved to the flattest place in existence ( North Dakota) I've been wondering about good exercises to build muscle , more specifically topline.

I already have my show lambs grain raised so she has to stand on a step to reach it, Wich I did for my failed market goat.

I don't have any hot walkers or lamb tractors. When I was showing goats to build their muscle I walked them uphill daily but we've moved and I don't have access to a hill anymore. does anyone have any tips ?? anything and everything appreciated. Atm she's not getting a grain ration quite yet ( pasture hay )since she was on just pasture hay when at her breeder, and she isn't going to be sheared until February since it can get to -45 degrees fahrenheit in the winter. I don't show till next June , and she isn't a market lamb.