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@AMAZlNGNATURE If it did they would kick you through the wall of the barn.

People think cleaning horse hooves hurts them, but it actually doesn't

@J_K_Wood @ScottDWinder17 I was a really depressed, sullen kid. Jesus found me, got a big family (6 kids!) and a bunch of pets and couldn’t be happier. Living a happy life is pretty simple. I feel sorry for whomever wrote this article as self-deception on that level is a terrible misuse of the mind.

“Children don’t make you happy” - The Daily Mail I'm no researcher, but I downloaded the dataset and looked for myself. The study's numbers say the EXACT OPPOSITE of the headline 👇🏻

@bennyandthesats @MarcMencha98 They are pretty cool. The tick eating is a bonus.

@badbirb @MarcMencha98 Beautiful birds

Pfizer coming out with a new vaccine of some sort for Lymes disease and farmers finding boxes of ticks in their pastures. Surely just another big coincidence right?

@sosonosonosono I think it's this. They are uncomfortable to wear. x.com/ripblackmamba/…

its crazy how hard VR fell off there just isnt anything anymore

我が家のラブい超絶お爺インコが旅立ってしまった 享年14歳、人間の年齢にすると112歳。 実家にて７人の子供の誕生と成長を見守ってきたw長生きしてくれてありがと🌈

@saqu_ma I had a budgie who was blinded by a tumor and she wsa very adept at moving around the cage, foraging, and even doing short flights towards my voice. They can be very adaptable.

お水を飲むちまきちゃん。白内障で目が見えないけど、ちゃんとごはんの場所も給水ボトルの位置もわかる。尊い。

@JillianGor96095 @MarcMencha98 it will, but the guineas will be happy to help.

@badbirb @MarcMencha98 I think it’s going to take bit more than Guinea hens! That we have to defend our food and protect nature and sentient life from these Frankensteins

She’s doing great‼️ Jawlene the alligator with no top jaw and her best bud Nellie Wafer are hanging out in their pool together having a little breakfast together 🌴☀️

パプリカ見せてくれました🫑

I'm honking like a goose laughing at this

Happy Georgette noises

Phyllis is just a pampered chicken.

何かご用ですかぁ〜🐥❓無いなら失礼しま〜す…👋🐥 #シロハラインコ #華ちゃん

When you buy beef to feed your family, you can buy from a store that bought from a corporate packer and 'feeder' OR you can buy direct from a local rancher. The two are not the same. Mr. Levi and I both operate in the State of Oklahoma, but what we do is worlds apart. Most consumers truly don't understand the difference, and corporate operators don't want you to understand. If you did, really did, there's a good chance you'd think twice about where you buy. So here we go: 1. Meat Mixing: Your grocery store ground beef is a lottery ticket you don't want to win. When a packer grinds beef, they're commingling meat from hundreds of animals. One sick animal doesn't just contaminate one package, it contaminates thousands. Example? Hallmark/Westland recalled 143 million pounds of beef, the largest meat recall in U.S. history, after undercover footage showed workers using forklifts to force downed cattle to slaughter. Roughly 37 million pounds of that recalled beef had already been sent to the National School Lunch Program. That wasn't a one-off. Hudson Foods recalled 25 million pounds of ground beef in after E. coli spread through batch after batch because the plant carried over meat from one production day to the next. Topps Meat Company's recall started at 331,000 pounds and ballooned to 21.7 million because the same carry-over practice made it impossible to isolate contamination. This is what happens when you mix beef from hundreds of animals in an industrial grinder and can't trace anything back. Plus, packers and feeders don't care about the state of an animal's health--if its barely alive when it hits the kill floor, that's good enough. When you buy from your local rancher, you know the animal. You know the herd. If there's a problem, it's traceable to one animal and there is no mystery mix from six states. Plus, the processor we use cleans all equipment after every animal and processes our animals separately from any other. The cow's number is contained on every package. In fact we have clients who come to the farm and pick their steer with their family. One guy takes a picture and puts it by his grill. When they pray before their meal, they thank God for the life of the animal that fed them. They are city kids, but that annual visit instills an understanding and respect for the cycle of life and respecting the lives that sustain us. Visiting a feedlot or packer will instill something else entirely. 2. Confinement: Good old Levi doesn't want to talk about what confinement does to the animal and your steak. Feedlot cattle are packed into tight, concrete bound pens with no pasture, no movement, no life quality. If you've ever driven past one, you know the smell. If you've worked in one, it takes a week to wash it off you. The animals stand in their own waste all day, all night. They don't move. No blood flow. No exercise. Just grain and growth hormones until they hit target weight. It's one very small step above veal treatment. And it isn't just cruel. It's also scientifically a meat quality problem. Cortisol, the stress hormone, surges in confined, transported cattle and dramatically impacts pH levels, which determines color, tenderness, and bacterial exposure. When glycogen stores are depleted by chronic stress, the meat can't acidify properly. The result is dark, firm, dry beef. Darker, tougher, drier, with a shorter shelf life. So the big packers pump water and coloring through it to pretty it up. But it doesn't help the taste. Studies have shown elevated blood glucose and cortisol in feedlot-finished cattle versus pasture-raised, along with mitochondrial dysfunction and impaired oxidative metabolism in the muscle tissue of feedlot animals. In plain English: the feedlot animal's muscle looks metabolically sick. The pasture-raised animal's muscle looks like that of a healthy athlete. We always encourage our customers to take our ground beef and brown it next to something they bought at the store. It's eye opening. Constantly elevated cortisol also increases protein breakdown in living muscle, reducing structural integrity, water-holding capacity, and overall texture throughout the animal's life. You can't grain-finish your way out of biology. A stressed animal produces inferior beef. Period. 3: Nutrition: A 2024 study in Scientific Reports found that pasture-finished beef contained 3.1-fold higher phenolic antioxidants, 4.1-fold higher omega-3 fatty acids, 9.4-fold higher vitamin B3, and 3.1-fold higher alpha-tocopherol (vitamin E) compared to feedlot-finished beef. Oxidative stress markers like homocysteine and 4-hydroxynonenal glutathione were 2.5-fold and 2.3-fold higher in feedlot beef. Conversely, healthy antioxidants like urate and glutathione were significantly higher in rancher raised beef with grass access. The feedlot animal is metabolically stressed. You're eating their stress. A rancher-raised animal on open pasture? Moves freely and builds real muscle with blood flow and exercise. They forage on diverse grasses, legumes, and forbs and those phytochemicals transfer directly to the meat. Their system isn't chronically pumped with cortisol from confinement stress. Our animals They live a good life on real pasture, with trees and water, and their grain access is via a feeder. They truly frolic in the pasture, play, run, even at 1600 lbs. You will not see that with any animal who has spent more than a week in a feedlot. A rancher raised animal live a real life (well an animal raised by a rancher who cares--like any industry there are some who don't). Combining forage with responsible grain supplementation, low stress, free movement, and quality care and you get well-marbled, nutrient-dense beef from a healthy animal. When you buy from a local rancher you know the animal, the land, the practices. One animal per package, full traceability, no commingling. No industrial carry-over contamination. The animal lived on pasture, not in filth. Lower stress = better pH, better tenderness, better color, longer shelf life. Higher omega-3s, higher antioxidants, higher vitamins. Your dollars stay local The packer model is built on volume, anonymity, and speed. How many, how much, how fast. The rancher model is built on accountability and quality. You painstakingly care for every animal, and most days what it costs to help one get better, the injuries you sustain, the long nights, none of it is even a thought or factor while you are doing the work. For the feeder and packer, it's all just numbers on a spreadsheet. You can buy mystery meat from a system that recalls tens of millions of pounds at a time and feeds sick cattle to your kids at school or you can shake your rancher's hand and know exactly what you're putting on the table. Your call.

@KnipLs @anttsinc yeah, you do have to protect them like a chicken.

@badbirb @anttsinc Foxes and coyotes love guinea hens

They’re reporting this year ticks will be worse than the last five years! Interesting ranches are reporting boxes of ticks were dropped off near their properties! What’s the best way to protect yourself?

Hey guys

No way I will be in my own Lambo looking like an ostrich 😭