What is your ideal diet for your boer goats, especially as they near Auction time.

How would you go about fixing it? Would glue be enough? Don’t know what to do about ripped mesh grill holes as well.

Are you planning to attend any conferences? I’m considering going to FarmCon next year. What farmer events do you usually attend?

Currently have a 6 strand all live wire electric fence set up for deer control. It had been working great until I forgot to plug it in for a couple weeks after doing some maintenance on it. During that time some deer became habituated to hoping through. Now that it is powered again there is one deer that still keeps getting in. Seems it has learned if it jumps through the wires and its feet aren't touching the ground while in contact with a hot, it doesn't gets a shock.

I am thinking now to add 3 ground return lines to the system. These would be alternated between the existing hot wires in the middle section of the fence resulting in tightened spacing. Ex. Hot/Hot/GND/Hot/GND/Hot/GND/Hot/Hot. No need between the two bottom hot lines as they are close enough to the ground the deer would not be able to hop through and would complete the circuit anyway as it hooves would be on ground. The idea is that if it tried to jump through as before it would now be in contact with a hot and GND wire and also get shocked.

While ground return systems are more popular in dry soil conditions, my soil remains sufficiently moist so the only reason is to defend against jumping through. Fence currently tests around 10.2k volts.

Is there any draw backs from going with this system? I would suspect that as the soil is sufficiently conductive, that if an animal touches just a hot and is standing on the ground it will still get the same shock it would have before. Adding the GND lines should provide the added advantage of also providing the same shock if it contacts a hot/GND while feet not in contact with the earth.

Am I missing something as to why this may be less effective? Also with this system should the 3 ground lines be connected together at the end of a run like is often done with the hot?

Anyone on here tackled round roofs like this before? The flashing on the milkroom was done poorly and in desperate need of an overhaul, if anyone has any suggestions on how they would tackle the flashing please let me know.

Training the young bucks is my most and least favorite thing to do. Anyone else feel me on that?

There is a small group of dogs (one has a collar) loose near our property in VA, we thought they were caught by animal control but 40 or so minutes ago I was outside chatting with my dad and I looked up and two of them were looking at us (one with a collar, other just a stray), they ran off but about 3 minutes later when he went to grab another thing from the house he let out one of our house dogs (Yorkshire Terrier) and it ran towards where the dogs ran off, luckily he came back unharmed after I made a bit of noise with a metal pole by hitting the porch while yelling for him.

Is it legal to shoot the loose dogs, they have previously killed my grandfathers pet ducks and we also suspect they killed a few of our chickens since a few disappeared.

Pulled this old Vicon from a hedge last weekend. Hopefully after Xmas we'll tear it down and get it working again.

I was woken up this morning at 4 am to my dog, a malinois lab, having an absolute meltdown. I look at our glass front door and there is a skunk trying to claw at the door to be let in. When we put our dog in a different part of the house, the skunk left the door and is sitting there waiting to on our porch. Has anyone seen this behavior before? Could this mean the skunk is rabid or just their breeding season?

I’m starting a business that makes multispectral imaging technology. What would be the best approach to sell and market it to farmers?

What methods do people use to prevent frosts from killing avocados?

For context: My dad wants to grow avocados in western Australia. The temperature ranges from 45c during the day in summer to 0c during the night in winter (113f to 32f).

There are about 5 frosts per year which kill the trees, the trees are about 1.5m tall (5ft) and the leaves curl up and die.

The ground is very sandy but dad puts a lot of hay around them.

Nothing gets ya moving faster than the words cows are out. Tonight it was my bull that was in the front yard but at least he was easy to get back in his pasture. Time spent 30 minutes fixing fence.