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	Farms Downsize

debbyski

5-26-2009 5:41 PM

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5-26-2009 11:35 PM

tanyamm

That would be so neat. A farm with little cows and horses and pigs and goats and other little miniature animals.

5-27-2009 12:33 AM

debbyski

There is something so appealing about it, isn't there?

5-27-2009 8:00 PM

celestialdancer

Wasn't that land called "Lilliput"

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The half-sized cows barely reached Kenny's waist. The ranch's border collie stared eye-to-eye with wandering calves.</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-miniature-cows24-2009may24,0,7037757.story"><DIV>
The Petersens once raised normal-sized bovines on this stretch of Nebraska's rolling eastern grasslands, but with skyrocketing feed costs, the couple decided to downsize.</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-miniature-cows24-2009may24,0,7037757.story"><DIV>
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