@LaDawn1974: Well that sounds big enough to really cut down on the grocey bill.

@tractorjohn: it does, so do the butchering pigs i raise every year. tastes better fresh too ;-)

@LaDawn1974: Well aren't you just a real country girl? Grow a garden & raise pigs.

@tractorjohn: well yea i'm country...also fish and I won a milking contest at the local county fair a coupla yrs ago ;^)~

@LaDawn1974: & a Champion too. The last job I had in Arizona I worked on a goat farm. They were Show Goats that went to State Fairs all over America. The guy who owned them was the President of the Dairy Goat Assn. the baby goats were alot fun to watch. It wasn't unusual for them to escape from their pens over night to find them on the hood of a pickup the next day.

@tractorjohn: neither me or the kids have shown goats...we prefer pigs and steers. had a goat mark up my brand new jeep wrangler once~it kept climbing all over it...oh i wanted to shoot that goat!

@LaDawn1974: Oh yes goats will tear up just about anything, and can climb things that I swear there was no way they could get up where they were. But I really liked the way they could wiggle their ears.

@tractorjohn: the lil ones with their mommas are adorable too :o)

@LaDawn1974: When I was a kid, I had a pet rooster named him Jake. He took up with me from the day he got big enough to walk, he followed me to the school bus stop & be there after school waiting on me. He loved to follow me in the garden to chase the bugs. I remember my Dad would say Jake are you crazy & Jake would flap his wings walk in a circle a few times then play dead get up then crow like he was in charge of the hen house.

@tractorjohn: that is funny! i had a pet possum that used to go to school with me, he would ride underneath my hair in my shirt collar ;o)~