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Pasha838 said:
Well, I still had to sell some of the goats. Most of the buyers were Muslims, they bought the goats for a religious holiday. What can you do, goats are farm animals, not all of them will live to a ripe old age. In general, they usually eat sheep on this holiday, but there are not many sheep in the Moscow region, or rather, you can buy them, but they are much more expensive than goats of this breed. Although other breeds of goats can be very expensive. I have a "simple" breed of goats, although I personally like them very much - they are undemanding to feed and have existed for a very long time in this climate.
In general, many people in Russia do this, managing to sell eggs for Orthodox Easter and sheep for Muslim Eid al-Adha. I think if America weren't overseas, they would have adapted to selling turkeys as well, having learned when Thanksgiving Day is. :)

Although I personally sell manure more often than meat. Manure is readily bought by gardeners and flower growers. I simply pack it into empty bags and sell it for 100 rubles per bag (that's about $1).
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I have seen rabbit manure for $5 , a bag we buy feed in.
 
CapricornFarm said:
I have seen rabbit manure for $5 , a bag we buy feed in.
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These are Russian prices, in Russia a bag of manure (at least in my region) costs 200 rubles, i.e. 2 dollars. To be honest, I don't know how much a bag is, but when grain or sugar is poured into these bags, it comes out to 40-50 kilograms. (And manure is usually poured into old bags, in which there was grain or sugar before). But 200 rubles is usually with delivery, it includes the cost of gasoline that the truck uses. And I sell in the village, here everything is within 10 kilometers, so all I do is go with a wheelbarrow, putting 1-2 bags of manure in there. There are no large farms here, the buyers are ordinary summer residents who grow a flowerbed with roses or one or two beds with pumpkins.
I'm just a foreigner, and I came here because I'm tired of Russian-language forums discussing politics. It's very boring. That's why I moved here to the forum, although I live in Russia. There are simply interesting pictures on the forum - chickens, ducks, and this topic with random ones, where they show a lot.

Well, and accordingly, if I voice some prices, then these are Russian prices, and Russian money, here everything is in rubles, I convert to dollars so that it is clear, otherwise it will be like some other world, some other planet, some rubles ))) Rubles are the local currency, which has existed here for hundreds of years. The word itself is Russian, it is connected with the word "to chop off", because earlier the ruble was a chopped off piece of silver. This was a long time ago, now the ruble is paper and not expensive at all. 100 rubles is about 3 loaves of good bread.2 large packs of pasta, or if you go by McDonald's, which was once here, 100 rubles is the price of a small beef hamburger.

So I sell manure for 100 rubles. I usually spend the money at the supermarket, buying candy, sweet corn and sometimes cheap sausages with ketchup.
 
CapricornFarm said:
We lived in Nova Scotia, and saw the parade of tall ships. Very beautiful!
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I have never seen the sea or sailing ships, I have lived inland all my life and have never been on holiday to the sea. But I have read a lot about them. Probably, when I am old, I will take a holiday and go somewhere - to look at ships and collect shells on the shore.
The ships that sail here are barges and motor ships that go along the dug canal. Barges usually carry sand or gravel, and motor ships carry tourists. There are also small ships on the river in Moscow, but I have never sailed on them, although I live not so far away.
 

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