Showing posts with label finance. Show all posts
Showing posts with label finance. Show all posts
Wednesday, April 29, 2020

DQ43 (???) Meat Math 2020

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One day blends into another. I can’t believe it’s been over 40 days of quarantine. Insanity. Anyhoo.  Tomorrow is Paloma’s birthday. She’s ...
Sunday, November 17, 2019

Paloma’s Pigs

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Some years we raise a couple of pigs, and some years we don’t. The decision whether or not to get a pig in any given year is based on a numb...
Tuesday, May 15, 2018

Summer in Oaxaca (Abbreviated Cheese)

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This cheese season will be a short one: we are going to Mexico for most of the summer. Over the past three years we have been slowly, by fit...
Sunday, April 22, 2018

Farm Finances, Goat Edition 2018

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For my records: all four baby bucklings have been sold, surprisingly. Usually, bucklings are hard to sell. The four were sold for an aggrega...
Wednesday, November 8, 2017

Predator Problems Redux (Coyote Edition)

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We always lose chickens over the winter. Always. Some years are worse than others, but on average I'd say we have about a 30% chicken at...
Thursday, September 29, 2016

Swine Squared (Women's Work?)

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KWe have acquired two new pigs. To get a pig or not to get a pig, in any given year, is one of the larger farm-related decisions we make. Pi...
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Wednesday, August 12, 2015

How Much is a Good Goat Worth?

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Iris was the first goat on the farm. I bought her in 2007, as soon as I had a fence up and a place to keep livestock out of the rain...
Monday, May 18, 2015

Baby Birds (Wild and Tame)

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My property is apparently the perfect habitat for killdeer.   I love these handsome, graceful birds, with their piercing calls and ...
Friday, August 29, 2014

Beef Roadtrip (the Computer Age)

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You may have noticed that the price of meat has risen fairly dramatically over the past couple of years. The forecast is that it will conti...
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Saturday, April 5, 2014

The Goat Who Wouldn't Kid (When to Butt Out)

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Iris, above, is the first goat I bought when I moved here. I was hurting for goats; I couldn't wait. Goats, as far as I was concerne...
Wednesday, February 12, 2014

Function Over Form

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the calf keeping me company Recently, I made a fairly large purchase: a dozen cattle panels. I have a long term goal of eventually ha...
Saturday, February 18, 2012

Meat Math

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Now that Keizer meats has called me with the hanging weight on our tiny, skinny, little pigs (109 lbs and 137 lbs, less than I expected) I c...