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We raise beef, and Boyfriend cooked prime rib for his work dinner today. So this morning I took the bits and pieces that were left and put it in a bowl for the boys. Would you believe Burlington STILL stood there and whined and complained at me?? Ungrateful little butthead! LOL! He finally did quiet down and go eat it. Organic, grass fed prime rib and the cat stands there and meows like it isn't good enough....
 
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I'm so jealous! He sounds like many cats when transitioning to raw/home-cooked. They don't know it's food that you're offering.
 
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How many cows you have?  I always wanted to find a place local that is smaller farm as there are plenty farms around.  I only knew one person who had a cow.  They kept it more like a yard dog though-tied up on a chain with not to much room to move...strange:S
 
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Burlington steals enough that I'm sure he knows it's food! He likes to get up on the counter if we leave something tasty unattended! So I don't know why he was complaining so much but he stopped and ate it finally.

We have two cows and both had calves recently, a little bull and a little heifer. We'll probably keep the heifer, and the bull will become a steer soon and he'll go in the freezer when he's grown. I'm planning on getting a bottle heifer in the spring and I will breed her when she's old enough for my own beef to sell. Ours have about an acre and a half although the grass doesn't hold out long because the landlord has 3 cows on it as well, but the hay they eat comes from our hay field, which never has had any chemicals sprayed on it. After we buy this place, the 40 acres of farmland will become pasture and hay field. I like eating food we grew ourselves. I know the meat comes from animals that were treated well, fed properly, and had a good life, and the vegetables were grown without chemicals. I want chickens next year. I eat a lot of chicken and while we get some that a friend raises free-range, we end up having to buy a lot from the store and I don't like the factory farm method of raising any sort of animals, nor do I agree with this trend of raising chickens on vegetarian feed. Chickens are not vegetarians. I want meat and eggs from chickens that scratched the ground and ate bugs and lived a natural life outside feeling the sunshine. 
 
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While not "natural" by any means, I used to throw Meow Mix cat food to my layer hens. I don't have chickens now but I sure miss them and their eggs!
 
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TrevAndBur said:
 
We raise beef, and Boyfriend cooked prime rib for his work dinner today. So this morning I took the bits and pieces that were left and put it in a bowl for the boys. Would you believe Burlington STILL stood there and whined and complained at me?? Ungrateful little butthead! LOL! He finally did quiet down and go eat it. Organic, grass fed prime rib and the cat stands there and meows like it isn't good enough....
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Now that's what I call a cat with very rich blood, lol.
 
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TrevAndBur said:
 
Burlington steals enough that I'm sure he knows it's food! He likes to get up on the counter if we leave something tasty unattended! So I don't know why he was complaining so much but he stopped and ate it finally.

We have two cows and both had calves recently, a little bull and a little heifer. We'll probably keep the heifer, and the bull will become a steer soon and he'll go in the freezer when he's grown. I'm planning on getting a bottle heifer in the spring and I will breed her when she's old enough for my own beef to sell. Ours have about an acre and a half although the grass doesn't hold out long because the landlord has 3 cows on it as well, but the hay they eat comes from our hay field, which never has had any chemicals sprayed on it. After we buy this place, the 40 acres of farmland will become pasture and hay field. I like eating food we grew ourselves. I know the meat comes from animals that were treated well, fed properly, and had a good life, and the vegetables were grown without chemicals. I want chickens next year. I eat a lot of chicken and while we get some that a friend raises free-range, we end up having to buy a lot from the store and I don't like the factory farm method of raising any sort of animals, nor do I agree with this trend of raising chickens on vegetarian feed. Chickens are not vegetarians. I want meat and eggs from chickens that scratched the ground and ate bugs and lived a natural life outside feeling the sunshine. 
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That is really awesome to do!  We can get eggs from a couple at our church.  They have been raising their own sheep for meat the last few years too.  I've heard of buying a cow or a half a cow direct from a farmer; but I would need somewhere to store all that meat!  DH was at a butcher shop for work recently and he got to asking them about it.  Apparently we can get any meats there; raised in any of the methods.  I still need somewhere to store it if we start getting it there.  I worry about the hormones in meats transferring to my kids.
 
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You can get a deep freezer for a pretty reasonable price at Menard's or Lowe's, etc. We have one in the basement, I think it holds a whole cow. My concerns are with Roundup, GMO corn, and the antibiotics given to beef cattle (dairy cattle too, but I rarely drink milk and buy organic when I do). The whole mess with Monsanto greatly concerns me and I am very worried about the safety of our food supply.
 
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You can get a deep freezer for a pretty reasonable price at Menard's or Lowe's, etc. We have one in the basement, I think it holds a whole cow. My concerns are with Roundup, GMO corn, and the antibiotics given to beef cattle (dairy cattle too, but I rarely drink milk and buy organic when I do). The whole mess with Monsanto greatly concerns me and I am very worried about the safety of our food supply.
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I agree with you about Monsanto......it's dangerous and it's a hazard to our food supply.

We have two freezers in the basement now. Our chest freezer holds vegetables from our garden from the summer...we used some spray in the garden, but not very much overall. I tend to cook a lot strictly for the freezer, too, and so it has soups, stews, breads and rolls, and chili. Things like that.

When my mom died, we took her upright freezer and we keep our meat in that one. We used to buy a cow and a pig every year, but we don't eat the meat that we used to and so it's not worth it anymore.

HH Gregg is another store that has great prices on freezers. We were there a couple weeks ago, looking at refrigerators and they had some good freezer prices then.
 
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We don't put anything on our garden. It's sandy soil and has had cow manure spread on it, and that's it. I was pretty surprised how it takes care of itself. Like the worst problem we had was a few hornworms on the tomatoes, but they didn't do very much damage before the little parasitic wasps got to them and killed them.

We eat a lot of beef, and also sell it. The cow Boyfriend had butchered a year ago is almost gone.
 
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We live in a ranch house with no basement. Our garage is the only place for an extra freezer. Right now that is too full for one; but we are getting a shed this week so that will free up some space.

I have 2 4x8 raised beds i garden in. The last 2 years I've had problems with just about everything. It was truly depressing this year. I lost a lot; the majority really. I will be getting compost from the woman from church i mentioned. She says they always have more than enough. I hope that helps next year. I also think i need to remove soil and add fresh. Blight was an issue this year.
 
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Yeah if your soil is deficient you will have a lot of problems. We are doing an acre this spring, growing things we don't personally eat, to sell at farmer's markets, and probably a fair amount will be given to people who need it. We are also learning which plants to put together and which ones to keep away from each other so it helps with soil nutrients, pests, beneficial insects, etc. Last year our sweet corn was 9 feet tall and our  tomato plants were just insane. But they were also planted on an area that used to be a manure pile, so there were plenty of nutrients there!
 
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