KCA Ranch. A Work in Progress.

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HAHA , you need to come catch some of my crappie this yea. I'm gonna need to take a lot out

Hit me up! I'll bring the adult beverages

[Double C]

Woooo weeee! Looking like a great place and the grands will have core forever memories there I guarantee!

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Lotta stuff going on. Thanks to TBH'er Doug for building me a great smokehouse just in time to butcher our red wattle sow. The cut boar is next. Lots of smoking going on. Other projects as well. Few photos from the last few weeks are below.

Other updates:

• Got a local guy gonna let me hang the 400+ barrow hog in his cooler for a few days
• We got 19 new laying hens (pullets) and have introduced them gradually to our other chickens. So far so good. Got our first two eggs from our original hen.
• Two pens of laying quail (jumbo coturnix) are just eating and hanging out. Starting to get a few more eggs as the temps warm up.
• Got a contract to build a small shop (converting a 20x40 gabled awning into a metal building over slab with one 15' lean to on the side)
• Got a dozer coming in a month or so to clear fencelines (never been done) and make me some "senderos" in the back half of the property.
• Meat rabbits are status quo. Got one litter just born, one doe pregnant.
• Getting ready to start the garden and add a couple remote garden spots for potatoes, onions, etc.
• Made me a little water trailer to use soaker hoses for the remote garden spot SEE VIDEO: (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MB1j69aoFac)

Random pics of hunting, smokehouse, relaxing, smoking cheese and meat, brining bacon & ham, etc.

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My grandson's buck that he shot at our place during youth weekend (October) was mounted. My daughter in law at Memory Lane Mounts (Livingston, TX) did a great job memorializing this for the young hunter.

Facebook video for those that have it: https://www.facebook.com/reel/248142348373813

Some screenshots:

[tps7742]

Life looks good at the KCA ranch and Family. Thanks for sharing.

The mount looks great, along with the video that I know you are proud of and obviously so. Congratulations.

[Fritz]

Good looking smoke house. Enjoyed the little water trailer video.

[DaveC]

So you making cheese now too? Bunny, pig or elephant milk?

I hadn't seen a cow or goat out there yet



Awesome sounding plans for the future

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Life looks good at the KCA ranch and Family. Thanks for sharing.

The mount looks great, along with the video that I know you are proud of and obviously so. Congratulations.

Thanks. I appreciate it.

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Good looking smoke house. Enjoyed the little water trailer video.

Thanks. Always fun to tinker around And make something out of my junk pile. 😎

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So you making cheese now too? Bunny, pig or elephant milk?

I hadn't seen a cow or goat out there yet



Awesome sounding plans for the future

Store bought cheese. I ain't that little house on the prairie'ish.....yet. 😄

[Texas Grown]

Good job on the trailer . Looking forward to seeing it all hooked up! Bet your well water has lots of great nutrients for the plants too.

If your well ever runs low, you can always catch rain water from roof run-off (full of nutrients). I did that for my self watering bucket garden a few years ago. 10 foot section of rain guttering will fill a 55 gallon barrel in no time. I had it tied into 3/4" PVC running across the buckets with drippers in each bucket. Drippers come in various releases per hour to adjust and conserve water. But I bet you don't need that kind of system when you get your current idea up and running.

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Good job on the trailer . Looking forward to seeing it all hooked up! Bet your well water has lots of great nutrients for the plants too.

If your well ever runs low, you can always catch rain water from roof run-off (full of nutrients). I did that for my self watering bucket garden a few years ago. 10 foot section of rain guttering will fill a 55 gallon barrel in no time. I had it tied into 3/4" PVC running across the buckets with drippers in each bucket. Drippers come in various releases per hour to adjust and conserve water. But I bet you don't need that kind of system when you get your current idea up and running.

Good info. I've got a video of one my wife made. It stays full for the most part, and we use it for watering the dog, cats, and other critters:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jOBZnHW8j4s&t=10s

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Quick hunt tonight. Entire hunt and recovery was less than 45 minutes... What about 10 of that was waiting on my wife to bring me the tracking dog. 😆







Video link to me getting pulled by my catahoula fir the 70 yd track

https://youtu.be/ZBB8-jmpdjg?si=XRD1m4cZDa986H2g

[tps7742]

Congrats on the pig kill. It’s a good feeling to be able to walk from the front porch to hunt.

[Fritz]

Watched the video of Daisy tracking the pig. She did a great job.