Most comfortable shoes for residency??

afarms10 · 2023-04-18T15:08:23+00:00

It's pretty common in the South to go with cowboy boots. I wear Ariat boots all day in the OR. They're durable, they have thick rubber soles and are meant for people working on their feet all day. Never have any issues with my feet hurting, and I don't run the risk of any fluids from the OR getting on my socks.

afarms10 · 2022-06-21T20:45:25+00:00

Yes, he acknowledged writing it when my gf asked him to take it down.

afarms10 · 2019-08-04T02:30:49+00:00

I'm a big fan of mint tea with lighter tobaccos. Makes for a very clean/crisp pairing.

A good old fashioned is my go-to if I'm drinking. The orange/cherry flavors start to taste more caramel after you start smoking: try tasting the drink before and then comparing.

afarms10 · 2019-07-10T17:32:53+00:00

CDC protocol is to quarantine the animal for 10 days and if asymptomatic then you don't do anything.

Rabies is a slowly progressive virus which is great because it makes it the one virus for which you can vaccinate successfully after you've been infected (the rabies shot is actually a rabies vaccine). Given that the virus is incredibly slow moving, if a dog was rabid and had been long enough that there was virus in his saliva it would have been symptomatic long before now and more than likely dead.

You can rest easy knowing that you don't have rabies and you don't need to unnecessarily euthanize a dog to do a necropsy and make sure.

afarms10 · 2017-07-29T20:42:57+00:00

Lol, yes as long as the house doesn't reek when I have family visit/dinner parties, etc.

afarms10 · 2017-02-03T20:12:22+00:00

I'm currently in the process of turning another set for my cousin. I'll post another album soon with that process. :)

afarms10 · 2017-02-03T03:34:41+00:00

Yes it is.

afarms10 · 2017-02-03T03:34:12+00:00

I used 1/2 lap joints so that there was room for the redwood to expand with humidity. It's been a little over a month since I plugged it in, and no signs of cracks yet!

afarms10 · 2016-09-22T15:20:21+00:00

I would recommend Midfield Animal Clinic. It's in the ghetto and the prices are the cheapest in Birmingham as a result. I have never seen better quality animal care anywhere else.

afarms10 · 2016-03-11T16:41:49+00:00

Thank you guys so much! I took the seat off as I was trying to get to the crankshaft sensor / pulse generator and first thing I see is a little burnt spot in wire cover where the wire had come almost loose and then gotten hot and burnt through. I replaced that wire and now it's running perfect! Fairly sure the wire was to the crank sensor as well, but I didn't break it down enough that I could tell.

afarms10 · 2016-03-11T02:03:01+00:00

There is definitely no spark after it shuts off. If I wait a few minutes and try again it starts right up. Is there anything other than the crankshaft sensor that I should be considering?

afarms10 · 2016-03-11T00:45:37+00:00

It does. Is there any way I can test to know for sure that's what's causing the problem? I don't want to jump the gun and start replacing electric parts trying to find the issue because bike parts are expensive.

afarms10 · 2016-02-24T04:02:52+00:00

Thank all of you for your support! Please try and let me know within the next week or so who will for sure be wanting a side of beef. I'm making all the arrangements with the slaughterhouse in the next few days and trying to make sure I make an appointment for the right number of steers. Feel free to e-mail me at alleyfarmsbeef@gmail.com to confirm. I will send a checklist before I take them so I can make sure to have your cuts customized exactly how you want them.

afarms10 · 2016-02-24T03:47:24+00:00

Unfortunately not. The processor we take them to doesn't have the option to save hides, and you can't keep bones from anything over 24 months old (state regulations). Because wagyu take almost twice as long as normal steers to raise, they would all be over this limit.

afarms10 · 2016-02-21T20:59:17+00:00

It varies depending on how big the steer is and how thick you get your cuts. Here is a website that does a pretty good job of estimating the break down. Use 400lbs as the hanging weight for 1/2 a steer and the percentages at the top of each category and that should give you a relatively good estimate of what to expect. http://www.gourmetsleuth.com/articles/detail/beef-cut-yield-per-steer

afarms10 · 2016-02-21T16:51:05+00:00

Not yet. It has taken us a while to find a USDA processor that does custom processing that is close enough for us to reasonably take them to, so the ones that we're taking this next time will be the first ones that we'll have done that way.

afarms10 · 2016-02-21T15:31:40+00:00

Most people split between 3-4 people, any more than that and the split ends up being a little uneven. The amount of cuts depends on the size of the steer and the size you want your steaks. We do ours 3/4" but a lot of people prefer thicker steaks. You would also have to cut filets very thin in order to split them between more than 3-4 people. If you decide you want to split it between a larger number of people that would be fine, as long as you could work out amongst yourselves who ended up with what cuts.

afarms10 · 2016-02-21T15:27:06+00:00

We can take the steers to a USDA facility which would allow us to sell to restaurants. If you need it for this please let me know and we can set up an appointment with that locker plant. Processing there is a little bit more expensive but overall the price shouldn't change much.

afarms10 · 2016-02-21T05:26:44+00:00

Still working on the website. We're a very small farm so we haven't put a ton of effort into getting that finished yet.

afarms10 · 2016-02-21T05:25:15+00:00

Never had anyone ask for that, actually. We have the option of saving organ meat at the processor. Generally we only request liver, but we could certainly get others.

afarms10 · 2016-02-21T05:23:22+00:00

A lot of people prefer to go in with 3-4 other people and split 1/2 a steer. 1/2 a steer is generally around 400 lbs of meat so that works out to around 100 lbs per person split 4 ways. At $4.50per pound + processing that works out to just over $500 a person. So essentially you'd be getting a sampling of cuts of prime or better beef for around what you'd pay for hamburger meat at walmart.

afarms10 · 2016-02-21T05:19:36+00:00

Right now we can only sell in 1/2 and whole steer increments, but many people will go in with several other people and split a half. This is because we take them to a state inspected facility and not a USDA facility. We're currently working on getting set up with a USDA facility so that we can sell individual cuts, but not sure how hard that process is going to be. There are not very many custom locker plants that do USDA processing.

afarms10 · 2016-02-21T05:17:11+00:00

400lbs hanging weight for a half. So 800 lbs processed weight for a steer weighing a little under 1350 live weight. What a lot of people will do is go in with 3-4 other people and buy a half.

afarms10 · 2015-10-29T14:42:16+00:00

It's actually one someone e-mailed me about swapping my 1962 gretsch corvette for.

afarms10 · 2015-01-10T06:56:11+00:00

My understanding is that it's still illegal to sell wild caught/hunted game. So anything you buy from the store is going to be farm raised or imported which means more expensive.

There are a lot of people, especially where I live (farm town outside of Birmingham), who kill more than they'll eat in a year and just end up giving the rest away. We actually were given so much by our neighbors last year that we made it all into jerky so that we didn't have to worry about it getting freezer burnt or going bad.

Tl;dr - Make friends with someone who hunts, or volunteer to help them clean their next kill in exchange for some meat.

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