My latest build it yourself project!

I have always loved building things with my own two hands.

I am not good at 'fancy' stuff but if it can be done with rough lumber and hand tools.I am all over it. :)

Here is my latest project.a Goat stantion for use when I need to 'doctor' a goat or trim its hooves. I still need to add the stantion to it..........

http://i214.photobucket.com/albums/c...S/DSCF3340.jpg

here is a picture of one that I am sort of going by......

http://i214.photobucket.com/albums/c...S/SANY5439.jpg


I used to have a wood mizer sawmill so I have lots of various sized lumber to use.

Looks like a winner to me. The goats should be rightly impressed.

Thank you. I think I did a dang good job.....hoping the goats will think so too, but they are not easily impressed. :)

Goat: "Well, will you look at this? Hey girls! Look here. All I have to do is stick my head in here and AAAaaaarrggghhh!"

Throw a tin roof on it if ya want, makes it better on rain days which is when I usually have to do something to one of my few goats.

At least my old nanny is throwing another kid and gives good tasting milk. Now If I could just get a vet to trade care for em so I did not have to do it myself.

I swear if a goat thinks you are gonna hurt em they will beg you not to. Hardest animal for me to kill n butcher is a goat.

Now chicken n pig n deer n wild pig, I have no problem with that. Not much of a butcher but no problem with doing it, just prefer to trade meat for butcher services from RIP.

I am seriously considering adding a few sheep to the place. Lot of issues to resolve, but I want to try spinning / weaving wool and not many sheep farms to get raw wool from around Alabama and way expensive to order a lot. Thus I am thinking of home grown wool . And probably some mutton also, although it isn't a main meat around here.

Nice job so far Darkevs.

I hear ya about the goats..they are so 'pet' like and it is hard to kill/butcher them. I have just started another herd, the girls will stay, but their offspring will be my meat source.

I have been thinking of getting pigs again..looking into a heritage breed..the Berkshire, as they will free range inside a huge fenced area and not just escape and run away! :)

thanks crashdive123, I really do love building things..........with just a little help from friends I have built my cabin, chicken house, wood shed, Shop shed and a few other things over the years. My cabin looks like a log cabin, but it is not. :) I just sided it with slabs off the sawmill.

Nice job on the goat table.....I'd have a tought time killing something I have named....Oh, well.
I'm liking the cabin...can you post a bigger pic of it?

Great job Darkeyes! You guys should build a goat guillatine, and put a long rope on it. That way you can step around the corner of the barn, and just tug on the rope:scared:

Very nice, we used something similar for milking goats.

You just wait. That table, some chairs and the next thing you know.....

http://www.nannygoatsinpanties.com/w...cards-napa.jpg

hahaha..cute picture!!!

Well, I am almost finished.................just have to drill a hole in the deck and 2 X 4 to attatch the cross piece with a bolt.

http://i214.photobucket.com/albums/c...S/DSCF3343.jpg
http://i214.photobucket.com/albums/c...S/DSCF3345.jpg

We have feral pigs down in the swamp part of my land, I pretty much gave up keeping more than one just for the ability to have something to throw all the scraps too. Also tame hog lard is much better than the little bit ya get off of feral. but the bacon is leaner off them.

I think a hog is the best converter of scraps a homestead can have. Just stick the pen down range and where water can drain to make it a nice waller and you and it should be happy.

Be sure to cook up some cracklin bread when ya butcher it. :-) N don't waste the mountain oysters. :-)

If ya don't know what those are then you are probably better off not knownin'

for real fun serve up some pickled pig snout to your fancy friends when they come visit , it is a hoot (or is that a snoot) LOL

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Originally Posted by Thaddius Bickerton

We have feral pigs down in the swamp part of my land, I pretty much gave up keeping more than one just for the ability to have something to throw all the scraps too. Also tame hog lard is much better than the little bit ya get off of feral. but the bacon is leaner off them.

I think a hog is the best converter of scraps a homestead can have. Just stick the pen down range and where water can drain to make it a nice waller and you and it should be happy.

Be sure to cook up some cracklin bread when ya butcher it. :-) N don't waste the mountain oysters. :-)

If ya don't know what those are then you are probably better off not knownin'

for real fun serve up some pickled pig snout to your fancy friends when they come visit , it is a hoot (or is that a snoot) LOL

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I know what they are, and I'll pass lol....

Sparky, you know those little sausage links you love so much? Guess what they throw in the grinder when they make those. It's all those little parts you would not touch if you knew what they were.

Nothing on the hog is wasted, even in the processing plant.

head cheese is lovely too.

:)

good job there. Used to use one of those for milking goats. Nice job on the cabin too. Thumbs up on the headcheese.

Oldtrap

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Originally Posted by KY

Nothing on the hog is wasted, even in the processing plant.

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Everything but the oink and they are working on that.

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Originally Posted by kyratshooter

Sparky, you know those little sausage links you love so much? Guess what they throw in the grinder when they make those. It's all those little parts you would not touch if you knew what they were.

Nothing on the hog is wasted, even in the processing plant.

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Lol, I love them little sausage links to much to care. If someone fried up some mountain oysters I'd probably try them, I haven't yet found a food I couldn't eat lol

Now that's just too gross for my delicate sensibilities.

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Originally Posted by Sparky93

Lol, I love them little sausage links to much to care. If someone fried up some mountain oysters I'd probably try them, I haven't yet found a food I couldn't eat lol

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I ate 15 balut in one sitting. It may not be that you can't but rather that you will never ever in your wildest dreams do it again.

Oh, Lord! I just spewed!!!!!!!! Do kinda feel better, though.

If you add a yoke to the uprights that can hold the heads secure would make the rest of whatever work easier.

The 'yoke' is the last piece I added.

Well.................it worked very well...all the goats have nicely trimmed hooves and were checked over for any health issues, none were found.

I did forget to take photos though..................

What the?!....No photos? Well for pity sakes. That's it. You're out of the official picture takin' while doin' stuff club. I hope you're happy.

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