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Pretty simple question, how do you spoil your animals on the farm. It does not have to be livestock per see that way more people can participate in this.
Myself my dogs get spoiled by having the run of the house and a nice big kennel attached to the house. We also keep the TV on when we are gone...tuned to Animal Planet of course!
As for the sheep, they are spoiled too. My wife is a teacher so we have the kitchen staff separate out the leafy green vegetables from the scrap that goes to some other farm with pigs. We get about a 5 gallon bucket per day and on big lunch days, even more.
Another thing I do for the sheep is let them listen to the radio. I leave my radio on in the shop all day and night, and wired some speakers to it out in the sheep barn. I am not sure what they prefer for music but until they get evolved enough to get out of the sheep shed, get in the farm shop and use those cloven hooves to adjust the tuner, they are listening to classic rock. There is no way this farm boy is going to listen to country music...I would rather listen to static! (LOL)
If anyone wants to hear what the sheep are jamming their wooly clad and docked tails too, you can take the link and hit the listen now button.
http://zoneradio.com/wkit/index.shtml
I love vegetarians...slice them real thin, dip them in ranch dressing and they compliment lamb quite well! :-)
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| Bo the Brahma has to have his pear when you go and check on him. If he does not get one he will try to insert himself on the mule (gas atv) and find one. Red (Herefrod bull from MO) is too mean for anything and if he doesn't get a cusing he has had a good day. Forsty (Horned Hereford bull) wants bread and a few scratches behind his right horn. Chickens are getting pecans cracked for them, bread from the neighbor, and a pumpkin a week until I can't buy no more. La-La (dog) gets to set on my lap when on the front porch and it just her and me. Gre-Gre (cat) gets to be put on on the trash can and gets the fat off the cooked steaks. Mangus (rabbit) got to be moved out of his wire hutch to his movable hutch with a grass yard. Been missing the coyotes in the pecan field howling at 1 in the morning. The weaning calves get a bucket full of range cubes/bread. You know our herefords won't eat watermelon or pumpkins.
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Banana peels!  The goats get all the banana peels we can produce - there's usually a dozen goats trying to climb over a 3' wide gate when my husband walks out to the barn, cuz he's the "banana peel guy".The sheep are getting a handful of oats twice a day, if they're around the barn when I'm out there. They're starting to get quite friendly. The chickens get garden/kitchen scraps, as well as free-ranging for half the day. The barn cats get kibble and all the mice they can catch. One of them got a newborn rabbit for breakfast today - a litter of 12, but one didn't make it.
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| Pheasants, chickens and sheep all look forward to the weekly call from the local micro-brewery. When they brew a fresh batch, they call their list of local farmers to come get the hot mash. When the Muddy Run crew see my vehicle backing along the edge of the flight pen, they all come running. Clucking, peenting, and baaaaa-ing, they all clamour for the warm wet grain fresh out of the brew kettles. I spread about 200 lbs of it along the wall of the flight cage and always save a small bucket to share among the sheep. Especially now that the weather's chilly, that warm mash hits the spot for everybody. And it'a a great way to save money - free grain!
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When anyone asks what kind of horse we have, we always say "a Labrador" because she thinks she is a big puppy! She is actually a Tennessee Walker who is very spoiled by constant attention and treats. She gets whatever fruits/vegetables are in season or available, and sweet feed as an extra treat each week. In return she prances around her pasture and runs to the fence anytime we go near it!
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| The chickens, ducks, turkeys, & goose get veggies when we have them, bread daily, and a big scoop of their favorite scratch feed every morning (speaking of which I need to get to TSC tomorrow and get some LOL) Izzy (our pug) gets steak & ham bones when we have either for supper, she doesn't like doggie treats And all the kitties get canned food daily, I have self-feeders for dry food so that is available to them 24/7
Lord keep you arm around my shoulder & your hand over my mouth If God brings you to it, He will see you through it
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My calves use to get Ding Dongs, Twinkies, Ho Hos... whatever. I guy from work use to get a pick-up load of that stuff for $20-it was unsaleable. Everyone at work would dig through for the good stuff (most of it was fit for human consumption) and I would get some for the critters My almost 5 yr old pet hol steer, Paul, will run if he hears plastic wrappers crinkling- he loves his Ding Dongs!!If I drop a cookie, bread etc on the floor, I save it for the beef cows, Annie, Paulina, Pie and Hurfie will fight over their hand fed scraps. Paul and Abby are spoiled cuz they're still alive!! Abby is a free martin, also almost 5 yrs old. But they have personalities like a dog!! I don't eat my "dogs." But she does help us too. So she earns her keep- well a little. My house cat is "allowed" to sleep on my hair. Basically at the 4AM, its not worth the battle.
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Yesterday I went all out for my sheep and I do this often actually. As I clear land I often run across apple trees. Well the sheep love to gnaw on the stems because they are flavorful, and of course leaves are a tasty treat as well. Yesterday I came across an apple tree that was loaded with apples still, so I cut it down and hauled it out into the pasture so the sheep could graze the apples off and gnaw on the leaves and twigs. Now that is spoiling sheep for sure!
I love vegetarians...slice them real thin, dip them in ranch dressing and they compliment lamb quite well! :-)
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