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~~~Guard Donkey~~~

~~~Guard Donkey~~~

**********Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps********** My last post was about a flock of Black Vultures who took up residency in our goat pasture….. I’m totally cool with them co-habitating with us….. …..I also understand that the world is made up of different creatures…who can only be…what they were meant to be….. …..Vultures…are…Vultures….. They will reliably look like a vulture….. …..and reliably act like a vulture….. I think people make the mistake of trying to expect more from an…

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To Bamboo…..Or Not To Bamboo…..

To Bamboo…..Or Not To Bamboo…..

*******Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps******* CLICK HERE***Maybe This Link Will Get You To My Tick Tock Channel*** Well…that’s the question….. We’ve started having people leaning over the front fence trying to feed and attract the horses to come closer….. In the past…..I was cool with that….. …..not so much anymore….. …..I’m sure you remember…..four years ago we lost so many (9) of our horses (our friends) to poisoning….. ~~~”The Final Report”, Blog-Post~~~ ~~~”It’s Not Over Yet”, Blog-Post~~~ We…

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*****We Need A Donkey*****

*****We Need A Donkey*****

…..or I’ll willingly take a mule….. ….I’ve been told by a number of old farmers that a mule or a donkey will keep coyotes and wolves away from a herd of goats or cows….. …..I was recently validated while streaming “Yellowstone” the television series (the rancher one…not the park documentary)….. …..and it was even brought up on one of their episodes that an ornery mule will help to safeguard a herd of cattle against wolves….. *****Hey, If Kevin Costner Says…

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When In Doubt…….Test Everything

When In Doubt…….Test Everything

  The post’s title says it all. And this is what we are doing. “Things” are being Over-Night’d and FedEx’d and U.P.S.’d everywhere. Cultures and petri dishes take various amounts of time to percolate and crystalize and separate…………but we are keeping a lot of slurries of agar very, very busy. My older daughter says that agar smells like chicken soup.  She identified the smell in the expensive, botulism-anti-toxin plasma that my older daughter’s friend drove up to Ocala to pick…

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