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I don’t know of a standard and a lot of the cool crosses are homemade, must be nice to have a herd to play with. It sounds like a good cross. If you sweeten the deal you could appeal to the homesteader crowd to market any heifers that come out of the deal. One of our members here was looking for a heifer for home use, she found one, but I imagine there are others looking too, especially if they are treated well (receiving colostrum, good milk and good care initially at the farm), and horns are appealing to some people too. You may find yourself with a great new but brief niche market. Best of Luck.

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Andy, If next spring is your goal, you may be cutting it close even if you find a herd soon. My suggestion is to start in the breed association directory and start networking with anyone local to you.

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That’s great news and a big step. Remember that nothing makes a team like good work, just keep your expectations real and end on a good note and you will be using them for everything before you know it.

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Good work Kevin,

It is always rewarding to have them behave for public, especially when the public appreciates them. I am sure that in time you will have a great team to do some demonstrations with. My first public event with my team was the 2010 Northeast Animal Power Field Days. They weren’t even 8 weeks old yet and I had only had them for training for 10 days. Though a little poky they did well and even walked the obstacle course with me. Since then I have taken them to our DAPNet Annual Gathering and my local fair. I enjoy public events with my animals and I am rather impressed with how well my cattle have taken to them. You go knowing that you have put the time in, but when they take to crowds, balloons, kids, monkeys, fireworks and the dreaded bobcat sweeper attachment with ease, you know you have done well. Best of luck with future events, cattle are suck a pleasure to work with.

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We can talk about logo at tomorrow meeting.

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Terrible news about the fire, but wonderful news that you are now Grandpa Nearhorse 🙂

I know that it is a lot to take in, but when one door closes another opens. The open door may not be apparent right away but it is there. I hope for the best for you, your family and farm. Let us know if there is anything that we in the east can do to help. I will be cleaning out my storage barn this summer and I may come across something you could use, so keep in touch.

Erika

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When I was a polo groom we would exercise 3 to 5 at a time. Sometimes the fast horse does best on the outside sometimes om the inside. I had one mare that I put a chain shank over her nose, with it she was an angel with no problems she was directly to my right and went along with a little slack even. Without it she made us all miserable. I am not saying you should use a chain, but try different positions until something works better, and sometimes trying something like a chain you’ll find that you may not have to use it forcefully, they just need to know or think that you have a degree more pressure that you can put on them.

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Alright lets regroup Monday, May 14th at 7pm same number same agenda (though it was nice catching up with Ed).

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Geoff,
Yes the front lever with the truck raised and lower the digger in and out of the ground, I used one behind a tractor for 3 years. It works better than a fork, but weeds, soil conditions and operator error (too shallow leads to many slicers) can cause their share of problems.

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Sugar Cane is propagated by planting live canes in a furrow and covering, it is fairly easy to grow. I brought some back from FL one winter and planted some in a large pot and kept it in the greenhouse or as a house plant and did harvest some after a year and a half. I am not aware of any sources of sugar cane that ship, but a little rutting around on line may bring one up.

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5/7/12 Comm Comm Meeting Agenda

913-227-1219 or toll free if you need it 888-296-6500, code 411975 (or 4119756 if starting a meeting)

5/7/12 Comm Comm Meeting Agenda

1. Approve last minutes

2. Website Commitee- Jen

3. Discuss/edit eNews

4. Membership Committee- Logo, brochure (needs alignment work and a logo!)

5. Sponsorship- How has everyone be coming along with this, from the sounds of is the Nordell’s gave $200 to sponsor the newsletter, only $500 more to reach our goal, still need $1000 for website.

6. Event Promotion- Ed what is coming up that we can help you with?

7. Newsletter- Erika, Articles/Advertisements due 5/25. Are we going to 16 pages or 12 with a 2 sided Gathering insert?

Newsletter content-

President- Jen
Editor- Erika
DAP.com- Mark
Gathering- Ed/Bekah/Jean insert?
Doc Hammill- DONE
NE Logging History- Ethan DONE
Plow Clinic follow up- Erika
Wood Bee Follow up- Who ever Ed wrangles up
Beginner’s Experience Starting a Horse- Ellen
Cover Story- Tim Harrigan
Working in the Woods Tips- Scott Golden?
Using Horses to Build Roads- Pam
Calendar event- Everyone keep your eyes open for draft events
Classified- Know someone trying to sell something?
Advertising- We still need to get more to reach our budget goal, if they don’t want to sponsor, maybe an ad would be an option.

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My experience with tilling hogs is similar to Kevin’s. In a fine sandy loam (so sandy it was mine out for dairy bedding) we had 6 pigs on 1/4 to 1/3 of an acre. If you have a weed or grub that that they like it helps promote tillage, we had bindweed, but inevitably they did not till the ground that was used as their open bathroom. Even in this very sandy soil after a couple months they had tilled all that they would, but it turned out that it was too long, the ground had compacted hard for sand. We ended up borrowing the neighbors chisel plow to break up the ground so that the rain could penetrate. They did work rather well in the hedge row to loosen things up and uncover treasures, something that we would not take the time to clean up had they not uncovered it all.

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I think that I am going to pass, that weekend is my only good opportunity to get my garden in, and I will not be with out stores for the winter.

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Yesterday I walked the team up the hollow to the neighbors place to pick up a borrowed cart. I can’t wait to use it more around home. They took to it fine and there were some uphills and downhills on the way home. Here is a link to a picture of it http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10150849677089042&set=a.274346979041.179721.679389041&type=1&theater. It was an axle off of a model A truck, there was a smaller one for calves but this one will work until they grow into the dump cart that I will be able to use when they are big enough. I just wanted to show another example of “small toys for little boys.” 🙂

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Looks good Andy, let use know how it works with the trash. I have used a Perfecta which is the tractor equivalent to the Schipshe cultimultcher that Tim posted a picture of. I liked it a lot, it made a heck of a seed bed, would clean of some trash, but if there was a lot of trash you could literally rake it off the field with the Perfecta, ah the joys of 3pt hydraulics.

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