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    I am still waiting on my developer to finish up on the Classifieds Control Panel so I can use it to encourage members into becoming paying members. Google Adsense has become a real burden on the viewing of this site, but honestly it is the ONLY source of income now that keeps it afloat. I tried offering disabling the ads being viewed by paying members, but apparently that is not enough incentive. Quite frankly, Google Adsense has dropped down to where it barely brings in enough daily to match even a single paid member per day. But it still gets the bills paid. But at what cost?

    So even without the classifieds control panel being complete, I believe I am going to have to disable those Google ads completely and likely disable some options here that have been free since going to the new platform. Like classified ad bumping, member name changes, and anything else I can use to encourage this site to be supported by the members instead of the Google Adsense ads.

    But there is risk involved. I will not pay out of pocket for very long during this last ditch experimental effort. If I find that the membership does not want to support this site with memberships, then I cannot support your being able to post your classified ads here for free. No, I am not intending to start charging for your posting ads here. I will just shut the site down and that will be it. I will be done with FaunaClassifieds. I certainly don't need this, and can live the rest of my life just fine without it. If I see that no one else really wants it to survive neither, then so be it. It goes away and you all can just go elsewhere to advertise your animals and merchandise.

    Not sure when this will take place, and I don't intend to give any further warning concerning the disabling of the Google Adsense. Just as there probably won't be any warning if I decide to close down this site. You will just come here and there will be some sort of message that the site is gone, and you have a nice day.

    I have been trying to make a go of this site for a very long time. And quite frankly, I am just tired of trying. I had hoped that enough people would be willing to help me help you all have a free outlet to offer your stuff for sale. But every year I see less and less people coming to this site, much less supporting it financially. That is fine. I tried. I retired the SerpenCo business about 14 years ago, so retiring out of this business completely is not that big if a step for me, nor will it be especially painful to do. When I was in Thailand, I did not check in here for three weeks. I didn't miss it even a little bit. So if you all want it to remain, it will be in your hands. I really don't care either way.

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    Some people have indicated that finding the method to contribute is rather difficult. And I have to admit, that it is not all that obvious. So to help, here is a thread to help as a quide. How to become a contributing member of FaunaClassifieds.

    And for the record, I will be shutting down the Google Adsense ads on January 1, 2025.
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Pics of the farm

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Well mini farm that is.

The only ones I do not have pics of are the rabbits. They are flemish giant/ new zeleand mixes. 1 buck and 4 does. Cute little things :yesnod:

First up the newest additions... Otis and Squirell. They were given to us by a friend who was no longer able to keep them. Otis is the darker smaller of the two.

Both are registered jacks. Looks like it may be time to find a jenny.

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Next the "rescued " chickens. I had no plans on having 53 chickens. Found this flock locally and you had to take them all. The plans are to get them well fed and beefed up and buctcher about half of them. They are healthy but there was a lot of feather pluckering going on due to being so crowded. They now have 3 times the space, good food and get to free range during the day. In the week that I have had them their feathers are coming back in nicely. The lady thought she only had 2 rooster. I have counted 8 which might explain some of the fighting and feather plucking. The plucker is being built as we speak.

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See the bald spot on the last one... Little too much rooster time going on :D

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OMG what cute critters, Squirrell is ADORABLE!!!!
 
Love it! How much acreage you guys have again?
 
we actually only have 7 acres but are surrounded by nothing but large farms.

Makes it kinda nice.
 
Good gravy, that black baldy is a chunker! Actually, all those cattle are! Awesome farm, I hope to have something similar at some point in the future. May not have mammalian livestock, but I hope to at least have chickens and then do quality deer management on my property so I have a healthy deer herd I can harvest a few bucks and does from every year. That'll make up for not having beef. ;-)
 
WOW! very nice! Thats a pretty big herd of cattle already too! Good job! But are you going to have enough grazing for 10 head of beef cattle on 7 acres?
 
Cheryl Marchek AKA JM said:
WOW! very nice! Thats a pretty big herd of cattle already too! Good job! But are you going to have enough grazing for 10 head of beef cattle on 7 acres?
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I just wanted to jump in here......7 acres for 10 cattle SHOULD be just fine. I live here in KY, where there really don't seem to be ANY laws on where you can keep cattle, or how many, or cleanliness for that matter. :rolleyes:

Some people around where I am go way to far, I know of a man who has 20-30 cattle on I would say no more than 10 acres (if that):eek:! He pushes the limit a bit too far IMO.

Anyway, from seeing what I have seen I would have to assume 7 acres should be big enough....
 
Cheryl Marchek AKA JM said:
WOW! very nice! Thats a pretty big herd of cattle already too! Good job! But are you going to have enough grazing for 10 head of beef cattle on 7 acres?
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Nothing like being late to the party.

THose cows are actually just visiting for the evening... well for a few weeks anyways. They were helping eating down the field so it could be brushhogged.

We have purchased 2 of them and they still get to run with the mail herd which has about 65 acres to graze on. They will get rounded up back to our field when butcher time comes along :)
 
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