what are your hobbies

[A-1 (imported)]

I MIGHT be taking up a new hobby and I would like to ask any EA members with REAL experience for any helpful advice...

My son's cousin was quite successful last year with his 4H project raising a pig (made $900 profit). Naturally my son is now interested. Of course I am delighted to see my son growing, and hopefully learning responsibility and self-reliance through a 4H project.

So now, my new 4H'r son need to buy a pig. I got him on the phone to a few of the numbers in Arizona that the County Agriculural Extension Office gave us.... WOW! What an unpleasant shock, the only one selling pigs said they would sell us a "blue butt" pig weighing 40 to 60 pounds for $275-300. OMG!! That is FIVE DOLLARS A POUND FOR WEIGHT ON THE HOOF!! You can buy pork tenderloin for less than that!

Are there any EA members with "valuable bits of insight" or "priceless pearls" to offer me on how to raise ONE OR TWO pigs, I am not gonna be an industrial pig farmer here, just looking for a 4H project.

Contact the organizers of the 4-H in your area. Generally, pigs come in liters and you want to buy the pig as soon as it is weened and raise it yourself.

You may want to raise more than one so if something happens he still has one to 'show'.

[kristoff]

i like to read the bible and pray under my fig tree.

Soon to be a Dry Tree, no?

[randy (imported)]

Soon to be a Dry Tree, no?

i dont get it.

[kristoff]

i dont get it.

Read your bible

[randy (imported)]

i know the passage in isaiah youre reffering to but i still dont get it. was the nun always smoking? i just noticed that

[kristoff]

i know the passage in isaiah youre reffering to but i still dont get it. was the nun always smoking? i just noticed that

http://www.eunuch.org/vbulletin/showthr ... light=tree

http://www.eunuch.org/vbulletin/showthr ... light=tree

Perhaps an old discussion here might help.

OTOH, we digress from our thread

[sag111 (imported)]

I didnt say one of the things I just love is working in my garden weather it be flowers or vegs.I have put in over three hundred feet of side walk around my flower gardens and love seeing all the new flowers and ferns on my morning walk..

[SunLord (imported)]

Contact the organizers of the 4-H in your area. Generally, pigs come in liters and you want to buy the pig as soon as it is weened and raise it yourself.

You may want to raise more than one so if something happens he still has one to 'show'.

You want to just get one. They are almost impossible to kill. One will eat you out of house and home anyway. And I might suggest a wild one, do a goole search, they sell American wild hog, and they make fantastic pets.

Alternatively chickens would be a great project and saves any unnecessary comparison with the cousin

[joanne-f (imported)]

Well I write poetry - I have had poems published in journals in my own country and overseas for the last 15 years. I've editred two antholgies of poetry. In 2003 my first collection of my own poetry was published. I've got another manuscript in preparation. This isn't really a hobby but what I do. Hence why I have no money. I've also got a series of novels that I'm working on, but I'm uncertain whether they will ever be finished.

Aside from that I love watching films - I've got about 200+ dvds now. I also like cooking, I read lots of books, going for long walks, playing role playing games, card games and the odd computer game. I spend a lot of time on the computer too.

[sag111 (imported)]

Good for you and how I wish I could just spell let alone write poetry.I do have a blog spot on yahoo I enjoy so theirs another thingy I enjoy doin.