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13 years ago

Number One rule of farming: Never name an animal you're going to eat.

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taskemann 13 years ago

Originally Posted by Kurt

Number One rule of farming: Never name an animal you're going to eat.

Correct! It's hard to slaughter and eat "family members".
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- kenmichaels 13 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by taskemann
  
  Correct! It's hard to slaughter and eat "family members".
  
  I wish i could say ... but ... that biatch tasted good...
  
  however my kid is still crying
  
  so noo fresh ... unfrozen beef for me. ... yet.
  
  what really sucks is the butcher kept telling me... you need to eat some fresh...
  I think every other sentence out of his mouth was that.
  
  I am not sure if it was just to justify his prices or not.. Or if it really tastes so
  much better.
  
  I will say ... holy cow, it was expensive
  
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- Dennis Gaskill 13 years ago
  
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kenmichaels 13 years ago

Originally Posted by Kurt

Number One rule of farming: Never name an animal you're going to eat.

Sad thing ... is, if i do it again, and i am left alone with her for more then ten minutes
I will befriend her ... name her ... feed her ... and most likely pet her.

I love animals ... I wish they weren't so darn tasty.
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Robert Michael 13 years ago

Is this a true story? Did you really buy a cow? lol
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- Kay King 13 years ago
  
  you still get a little attached
  
  And if you are the Grandfather of a kid like I was - you have a steer that was orphaned and thus got special attention and you never send that one to market because your Grandkid MADE a pet out of it.
  
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kenmichaels 13 years ago

Originally Posted by Kurt

Number One rule of farming: Never name an animal you're going to eat.

nobody ever said i was smart ... ... or good looking

for me the worst part of that whole situation, is ... i gave away more then i kept,
when i gave to some folk ... they acted like .. it was my destiny to do so.

20 ish houses or so ... got free beef. except for one... they all acted like it
was my responsibility to feed them ...

weirdest sh*t ever
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- Paul Myers 13 years ago
  
  weirdest sh*t ever
  
  That's not even unusual. Wait until they ask you to provide "support" for the freebie, by coming over (with your own spices and cookware) to prepare the meals for them.
  
  When you tell them you have to work that day, and they call you a scamming thief, you can say you're into "normal" territory.
  
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Jeffery 13 years ago

Originally Posted by Kurt

Number One rule of farming: Never name an animal you're going to eat.

You know my x-wives?
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- kenmichaels 13 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by Jeffery
  
  You know my x-wives?
  
  wow.
  
  now that is funny ..
  
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thunderbird

13 years ago

Originally Posted by kenmichaels

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as the truck drive away ... my boy screamed by bye Annabell for 10 minutes
then he cried.

I think he might know we are going to eat soon.
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Yep, it sounds like your boy figured out what happened to Annabel and what you're going to be eating.

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Entrecon

13 years ago

We have gotten 1/4 of a cow a couple of times. Ours goes right to the butcher and all we get are a couple of cardboard boxes full of the finished product. We have a chest freezer we keep it in.

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Entrecon

13 years ago

Just checked my facebook wall, and purely coincidental one of my friends posted this from the NY Times:
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/09/op...uses.html?_r=0

A quote from the article:
So-called ag-gag laws, proposed or enacted in about a dozen states, make, or would make, criminals of animal-rights activists who take covert pictures and videos of conditions on industrial farms and slaughterhouses. Some would even classify the activists as terrorists.

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Kay King 13 years ago

Interesting. Where I come from you milk cows and eat steers.:p
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- tagiscom 13 years ago
  
  Number One rule of farming: Never name an animal you're going to eat.
  
  Yep, l used to help raise steers, which were meant for the dinner table.
  
  Eventhough l didn't name them you still get a little attached, when l walked down a paddock they would inevitably follow, and after realizing there was no hay, they would instead act up, or bolt around trees, etc.
  
  So, yeah, never easy to send them off, and when they get sick, taking care of a half ton cow is easier said than done!
  
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twister85

13 years ago

The Tittle really Made me laugh So I came here, hahaha! really funny!

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yukon

Banned 13 years ago

Your supposed to say, Annabell went to the farm to be with other happy cows.

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HeySal

13 years ago

I couldn't do it. One look in any animal's eyes and it's a pet and I'm vegetarian. Intellectually I know that is extremely hypocritical and nonsensical, but emotionally, I can't cut it. I've never been able to swallow meat from an animal I've seen live other than seafood and snake.

I don't hunt - but I don't have anything against people who hunt. I will eat cut meats they bring to me without hesitation and with much appreciation.

If I had to kill to survive (other than in self defense), my diet would be extremely limited. Not sure if I could adjust if it came to be a matter of starvation. People do a lot that's not normal to them to stave off starvation, so maybe.

Anyway - I know how the kid feels. I was playing with a chicken once when I was about 5 years old and the lady of the house came out and grabbed it swung it around by the neck and chopped it's head off right in front of me and I freaked for everything I was worth. I ran home screaming bloody murder. Had dreams for years. Never went over there again. Her daughter and I still played together at neighbors, but I was scared crapless of that woman after that. I would actually walk down to the road (high speed country road) to get to the neighbor on the other side instead of cutting through the front yard as we normally did because I thought I was safer there. To this day I find the very idea of decapitation is so severely morbid I get physical reactions to it.

There better be a good punchline when we cross that great divide because I don't find any of this crap the least bit entertaining.

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13 years ago

Originally Posted by HeySal

I couldn't do it. One look in any animal's eyes and it's a pet and I'm vegetarian. Intellectually I know that is extremely hypocritical and nonsensical, but emotionally, I can't cut it. I've never been able to swallow meat from an animal I've seen live other than seafood and snake.

I don't hunt - but I don't have anything against people who hunt. I will eat cut meats they bring to me without hesitation and with much appreciation.

If I had to kill to survive (other than in self defense), my diet would be extremely limited. Not sure if I could adjust if it came to be a matter of starvation. People do a lot that's not normal to them to stave off starvation, so maybe.

Anyway - I know how the kid feels. I was playing with a chicken once when I was about 5 years old and the lady of the house came out and grabbed it swung it around by the neck and chopped it's head off right in front of me and I freaked for everything I was worth. I ran home screaming bloody murder. Had dreams for years. Never went over there again. Her daughter and I still played together at neighbors, but I was scared crapless of that woman after that. I would actually walk down to the road (high speed country road) to get to the neighbor on the other side instead of cutting through the front yard as we normally did because I thought I was safer there. To this day I find the very idea of decapitation is so severely morbid I get physical reactions to it.

There better be a good punchline when we cross that great divide because I don't find any of this crap the least bit entertaining.

I'm a bit in the same boat.
My father was a hunter. He grew up in eastern Ky. in pretty much a pioneer way of life. He literally hunted to feed the family.
My older brother took it like a fish to water. He's now an outdoors writer and avid bow-hunter. He's a field editor for Bowhunter magazine.
The first squirrel I killed broke my heart.
I saw it laying dead on the ground and the only thing I could think was "a minute ago he was hanging out in the tree not bothering anyone. Just trying to live his squirrel's life. Now he's dead because I killed him.
But, the flip-side is, I love meat. I love wild game. Venison, rabbit, squirrel, etc.
I just can't kill an innocent creature.

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Lloyd Buchinski

13 years ago

I mentioned this one time before in this forum, but for anyone (everyone?) who missed it, here it is again.

A kid had a pet duck. It was time to roast it and at the table, she realized who it was, cried and wouldn't eat it.

A few months later the family was invited to supper at a neighbor's. When supper was served, they realized it was duck and were waiting for the worst. To their surprise, the kid ate it. When the mother asked about it after, the kid said: 'ducks taste so much better when you don't know them.'

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Paul Myers

13 years ago

On a related note...

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Reprise

13 years ago

you should go vegan. also Annabel is beatiful name, love it.

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ThomM 13 years ago

Originally Posted by Reprise

you should go vegan. also Annabel is beatiful name, love it.

I'm not trying to be an ass or anything, but I have a question for you (or any other vegans).
What do you think would happen to all the animals that are used for food like cows, chickens, pigs, etc. if everyone became a vegan?
Keep in mind we're talking about millions of animals. You can't just let them all roam free and farmers would have no reason to keep feeding them.
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Patrician

13 years ago

Not judging, Ken, but HOW COULD YOU????

(LOL name your meat? Eat your friend?) gasp!

Where are my steaks U O ME, man? *

(that's ok I do not eat cows or drink their milk) - (ok maybe once or twice a year)

I just think they are cute -

oh, hmmmm, i do wear leather - everywhere I can. leather car, etc.

but i will tell you one thing i never named any of it.

sob.

Rip Anabelle.

* people are pigs - they should be so lucky - i have found one of the hardest things to deal with is giving them anything - whether it is time, poor cow, or whatever - they feel this entitles them to more - they just do not know how to receive anything graciously - seriously I am going out of my way now not to go out of my way to help anybody. they can't handle it. (and they would be the last ones on earth to give you anything in return or otherwise - even gratitude).

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Jacqueline Smith

13 years ago

Last spring I moved to a farm with 125 acres, most of which are leased to a farmer.

Somehow I found myself raising 5 cows for one of the farmers (it was a situation where one thing led to another and before I knew it I was raising these guys). They arrived in May and I immediately fell in love. Yep...named them, fed them, cuddled and chatted with them several times a day.

I didn't know how I was going to let them go in the Fall and my son, knowing what I am like with animals, said that if I wasn't looking after them someone else would be and they would be killed regardless. He said to not focus on the end but instead focus on making their lives great, afterall, the cows had no idea what was going to happen in a few months. (Yes....my son is amazing.)

So....I did. I loved them and cared for them and learned so much from them. It's an experience I will never forget and I am so grateful I had the opportunity to be a part of their lives.

Did it break my heart.....absolutely...I am crying as I type this.....I loved those boys...but I also know they had an amazing 6 months.

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13 years ago

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devonm 13 years ago

Originally Posted by sivricmarijan

Do you plan to sell milk on Clickbank?

Sell milk on ClickBank? LULZ! Just. LOL!
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- Kay King 13 years ago
  
  Every time I see the title of this thread the song is running through my head....
  
  I bought a cow...and I liked it...
  
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  ThomM 13 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by Kay King
  
  Every time I see the title of this thread the song is running through my head....
  
  I bought a cow...and I liked it...
  
  I hear this when I seethe thread title
  
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