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Who are the top three strongest characters in the Kevin Gibes Inflated Universe (KGIU) canon?

  • Gash Coyote

    Votes: 103 4.5%
  • Rioley

    Votes: 279 12.1%
  • Penis

    Votes: 417 18.1%
  • Loathsome Dung Eater Jen

    Votes: 300 13.0%
  • Boner

    Votes: 300 13.0%
  • Kevin Gibes

    Votes: 684 29.7%
  • The Elusive Earl

    Votes: 716 31.0%
  • Landon Hiscock

    Votes: 266 11.5%
  • The Korps LARP Brigade

    Votes: 205 8.9%
  • Kiwifarms Militia

    Votes: 1,149 49.8%
  • Kindness

    Votes: 669 29.0%
  • Trans Cucumber The Child Abandoner

    Votes: 313 13.6%

  • Total voters
    2,306
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Someone's been creative with camera direction, or taken some photographs just outside the premises.
 
nobody wants yarn.

Yarn is actually a highly profitable industry and one of the most hoarded craft materials, but no one wants alpaca shit filled poorly dyed rope.

It looks like it's been sitting in a cellar for ten years, why is it $25? vegetable matter? why don't they wash the fleece before spinning it? I just can't fathom who would want to buy such overpriced, dirty yarn when you could just buy some made by a professional on etsy for five bucks.
They probably did wash the yarn but there's so much vm in the yarn from the shit quality wool being "sticky" so to speak that they couldn't get all or even most of it. Healthy wool on healthy animals "repels" debris to a certain extent instead of being plant Velcro.

It's normal for there to be some vm in yarn, or sometimes even a blade of grass or a couple pieces of hay, but this is indicative of a husbandry problem. They can't take a single photo of this yarn that doesn't have garbage in it.
 
Going to shill my own attempt to catalogue their animal neglect. Please, anyone who knows more about alpaca/sheep raising look over these photos, is this sort of discoloration of their fur normal?
The discoloration appears to be the animals are really, really dirty. If your animals don't have access to water they can submerge in, most ranchers will hose them down from time to time. It's it not like how you'd bath a dog but more just knocking dirt and shit off of them in part for their comfort levels.

What I find odd in the pictures is some of the alpacas show very clear signs of being malnourished in terms of how their stomach bulges, unless alpaca don't do that like most mammals. However, others don't. What this points to for me is that the food is scarce enough that the dominant ones aren't letting the weaker ones who don't fight for it eat.
 
Going to shill my own attempt to catalogue their animal neglect. Please, anyone who knows more about alpaca/sheep raising look over these photos, is this sort of discoloration of their fur normal?
Staining is normal especially on white animals and is prevented by regular washing of the animals which is a thing responsible keepers with reasonable numbers of animals sometimes do. Otherwise the yellow parts just get cut out or thrown away at shearing. It is often only the tips of the fiber that turn yellow.

The body condition of these alpacas is not great and some of them look like they may have the bloated stomachs that indicate they could be wormy. For comparison here are photos of healthy, normal weight alpaca at an alpaca show. Also note that you can visually see the difference in the fiber quality.

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I'm just baffled at the shit quality of that yarn. Alpaca fiber is so coveted and expensive, and here they are spinning it into shit that wouldn't even sell in the "on sale" bin in the Walmart craft aisle. It's so uneven and dirty, what would you even make with it? A blanket for a dog, maybe, and even then, only for a dog you don't like very much.
Except a blanket takes a LOT of yarn, so you'd essentially end up with a shitty $250 blanket. That's the other thing that gets to me - you can't do shit with barely 200 yards of yarn. Especially not with one as thick and lumpy as this one. And as another farmer already mentioned, alpaca yarn is mostly wanted in light weights, so you can make socks or maybe a light shawl or such - try making something like that with their yarn and it will probably look like Hagrid made it with two wooden spoons for knitting needles.
This highlights another common dynamic: they know better than women. No, there's nobody on the Tenacious Unicorn Ranch who can knit, weave or crochet. No, they didn't talk to any fiber crafters about what crafters want, or what the market wants.

This is what they're making, and fuck you. It doesn't matter that it's alpaca fiber; this isn't the kind of yarn people use.
Also, the price is insane, even for alpaca. Let's compare: Here is a listing for alpaca yarn from a different company. It's $9.50 per 100-yard ball, and it's 85% baby alpaca (which is softer and more expensive than regular alpaca). The tranch yarn (archive) goes for $40 for a 210 yard ball, and it's only 60% alpaca. I know economies of scale must help with keeping the other company's costs low, but the tranch's prices are just insane even for alpaca yarn. I'm guessing their target demographic is SJWs who are casually into knitting or crochet, or have someone in their family who is, but have never actually worked with alpaca or have any idea of what it costs. They just know it's "expensive" so it doesn't seem weird to them to pay $40 for a single skein of shit quality yarn, plus they feel like they've done a good deed by "supporting these poor disenfranchised trans women"
Someone might remind the Tenacious Unicorn Ranch that there's no ethical consumption under capitalism:

 
Fuck I'm late shut up
I never realized he was a troon too. I just thought he was a chaser.
Jarrod is such a low quality troon that he looks like a standard neckbeard. His dedication (or lack there of) to being unkempt makes him the craziest looking man on the farms, matching his personality like a giant warning sign.

This is literally the plot of Mice and Men; only every character is Lenny.
Thank you, I laughed too hard at this.

A few have starved and/or froze to death by this point. They blamed the deaths on Earl, who has become a folk hero in this thread.
Earl is not fat and I would have sex with him.
This is a fun thread.

It’s like Four Corners where the border of the Lolcow, A&H, Beauty Parlor and Community boards all meet.

Everybody has a reason to hate and/or make fun of the Tranch.
Exactly, and with a dose of Animal Control thanks to Kevin & Ash Coyote being furries as well as DenFur. They fail so hard at everything all at once that it's like they have the "kick the autistic" sign tattooed onto them and written in the dirt at the tranch, an irresistible kiwi signal.

Half of Kevin's thread is women shitting on him for being a terrible example of a "woman" and it's one of my favorite threads because of it.
being furry/wiccan/sucking toes/terminally online/substance abusers like the the majority of the 1st world
What the fuck, have you been outside/to a first world country? There's a reason the word "normies" is uttered by most of those groups (substance abusers are too high to care) and why most of the people we cataloge on this site fall into those categories. These people aren't the norm, they're an incubator for the exceptional. Not being terminally online is a sign of normality and is practiced by most people.
There is a certain "Awww look at the poor widdle uwu [pet minority] who is incapable of doing anything bad, must have done it because of the ebil White cishet men!" involved on the Wokeandian side, and...people who take advantage of that are scum.
This is so hard to convey to other blue leaning people in my life who are below boomer age and why they get so surprised when a pet minority screws up or takes advantage of them. It's why a lot of left leaning Americans are on the SJW flavored threads, we have to cope and seethe until the people around us learn the hard way (or just ignore it). :(
Autistic shower thought: Never have I seen a group of cows that I've more wanted to recreate as a Sims household just to see what happens.
You know, maybe that's why they never fixed up the hot tub or implemented a farm pond. 🤔
how come it's always MtF trannies sperging out and acting like retards. FtM do it too but it's like a 9/10 ratio when it comes to which side is having a fucking autism fit.
Entitlement. Trans women are WOMEN, meaning that they are forced to become underprivileged lesbian women by biology, and experience homophpbia, misogyny, and transmysoggyknee at the same time. Therefore according to woke lore they are some of the wisest and most deserving of everything and we should listen to them (and trans men are MEN so they should shut up and woke transmen follow this).

This means autistic men who are raised with the world handed to them by their parents (plenty who aren't who don't chimp) and cluster Bs jump in and scream for tendies. These guys have less self awareness than most people due to their conditions, so they are more accustomed to throw giant tantrums in public.

Women are raised to focus more on social skills and part of that is learning to be mindful of others. They chimp out in more passive aggressive ways that aren't as funny as their male counterparts because they're raised and expected to be subtle about chimpouts while men with previously stated conditions have less of that instilled in them. Testosterone also enables them to be more destructive like others said.

Besides, male run of the mill transtrenders who don't chimp aren't catelogued by the farms. We also think a man in a dress who doesn't pass is funnier and has more cognitive dissonance to us than a women wearing men's clothing (which is only a bit different than normal and T is stronger and helps them pass more).
They probably did wash the yarn but there's so much vm in the yarn from the shit quality wool being "sticky" so to speak that they couldn't get all or even most of it. Healthy wool on healthy animals "repels" debris to a certain extent instead of being plant Velcro.
They can't wash and condition their hair and it extends to their livestock. I'm kinda offended that they can't even be bothered to craft shit with it. At least make a God's Eye you shiftless bastards.


Trancher thoughts: Penny seems like the type of person who really likes cute things and "taking care of them", but doesn't commit to it. He wants to be motherly, but pissed out of his own children's lives to pick up Kevin and Jen, both adults who like being cared like children but are independent enough that when Penny doesn't want to play he can ignore both of them. This seems to extend to the alpacas, in a sense: Penny LOVES photographing his hoard of alapacas, yet we never see care taken for them outside of basic feeding and hearding (Luna Slater and her hoard of actual dirty objects comes to mind). He seems to be attached to them but only passively, playing with them like toys then putting them back in a heap.

Penny, in spite of being an anarchist, is the ring leader along with Bonnie (who seems to be filled with contempt for himself and mostly others so he doesn't give a fuck about most things that don't make him look good or bring him pleasure). How these two trans women model is how their ranch hands follow. Sure, someone could suggest a vet check, but would anyone really follow up on it if Penny or Bonnie didn't take any steps to schedule it? The same applies to hosing down the alpacas and making sure each alpaca gets fed the proper amount. Shit, I don't even know if those fuzzy bastards are getting mineral blocks they need, and that requires someone just to toss one into the farm and forgetting until the next one is released. I think the only proactive member of the tranch who doesn't just go with the ordered chores flow is Jarrod, but unfortunately he's become number 3 since he is invested in Penny and Bonnie's habits of guns and aggression and is gun ho about it.

I like how the ducks and chickens have been ignored since they're not as cute and don't require much care. Penny put down those toys a while ago and hasn't given much thought since. I'm focusing on Penny btw since he runs the Tenacious Unicorn Ranch twitter and is the one giving constant updates.
 
Staining is normal especially on white animals and is prevented by regular washing of the animals which is a thing responsible keepers with reasonable numbers of animals sometimes do. Otherwise the yellow parts just get cut out or thrown away at shearing. It is often only the tips of the fiber that turn yellow.

The body condition of these alpacas is not great and some of them look like they may have the bloated stomachs that indicate they could be wormy. For comparison here are photos of healthy, normal weight alpaca at an alpaca show. Also note that you can visually see the difference in the fiber quality.

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It may have been back before this thread split from Kev's, but the quality of their stock is probably subpar as well--the value of a farm animal is in part reflective of its breeding, and if you want to make a profit off of alpaca in the US, you need to go for quality stock. The alpaca bubble, though, encouraged a lot of breeding of low-quality animals and by the time the Tenacious Unicorn Ranch was buying their alpaca, a lot of low-quality animals would have been for sale cheap.

The free alpaca they got? Free likely was overcharging--giving away because nobody'd buy those animals and more sensible/responsible/knowledgeable people would insist on being paid to remove them.

Actually, y'know what? Here's a very good and readable economics paper from 2014--four years before the Tenacious Unicorn Ranch started--that covers in detail the alpaca bubble and why the value of alpaca is not in the fiber at all. The tl;dr is that the troons fell for a scam, and a pretty known scam at that; your main money currently is in breeding and charging people to get hug alpaca.
 
I like how the ducks and chickens have been ignored since they're not as cute and don't require much care. Penny put down those toys a while ago and hasn't given much thought since. I'm focusing on Penny btw since he runs the Tenacious Unicorn Ranch twitter and is the one giving constant updates.
I can't wait for them to jump on the "pet pigeon" trend that seems to be all over socials rn.

Rats deserve rats.
 
The discoloration appears to be the animals are really, really dirty.
Powerleveling agri-sperging: Dairy farms have things called integrated spraying systems that are basically like little car washes for cows. They're also used for stuff like fly spray, tick repellent, and cooling the cows when it's hot out. I don't know if they're used for wool animals like alpacas, but getting one would be a better purchase for the ranch than getting drones and body armor and a metal staircase. Probably way cheaper too.
Cows also need footbaths to keep their hooves clean. Again, not sure if they'd be used for alpacas but any small dairy farm would have them. Cows can be pretty gross and smelly and they never get spotless (they're animals afterall) but if you give them the means to get cleaner they typically know what to do, it's easier than giving a cat a bath that's for sure.

I've also seen cows and horses roll around on grass. I'm assuming that it helps brush dirt off their coats and they seem to enjoy it. If the Tranch wasn't unfairly victimized by trans-exclusionary grass and actually had some greenery, could the 'pacas roll around on it? Are they dirty cause they live in a dust bowl? I'm assuming everything gets dirtier and dustier with no grass.
 
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These goofballs couldn't even make 100k last more than a year. They won't outlast shit.
 
Nice, I've been waiting to see another batch of their yarn. A while back, @Fields Of Rye got some and did a great review of the yarn they got, check it out here.

Just going by eye, it looks a bit better this time around. I don't know if last time they were offering it in different weights (thicknesses), but this time they have worsted, sport, bulky, fingering, and DK. You can tell there is still all kinds of hay or who knows what in it, but in my option, as a whole, it looks better than last time in terms of consistency of the thickness of the strands, which was an issue @Fields Of Rye found. I wonder if they had it processed and spun and all that by a different facility this time, I don't remember if they mentioned that or not.

They should be saying not just the length of the hank, but how much it weighs as well, which is a little odd, but not that big a deal I guess. Normally you would see something like [200 yards, 100 grams] in the copy for the product. I see Pennywise answered it in a tweet because someone asked, which shows that leaving it out of the website info was an oversight.

I also don't remember what the blend was last time. This time, some are 100% alpaca, some are blended with wool and bamboo.

All in all, just going by the photos, it looks like they may have slightly improved. Maybe a braver Kiwi than I will get some to give it a try.
 
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Penny answered a yarn question like you asked it of some stray teenager who is just babysitting the table and is trying to BS their way out.

Do not ask me what Penny thinks wool be like. The amount per skein varies depending on the fiber & weight of the yarn, and you could be selling yarn made of unicorn hair and that'd still be true. Note that Penny avoids any actually useful information--aside from the concerning implication that they can't even manage having all their skeins of a given yarn be roughly the same weight.

Penny was asked how much yarn is in a skein. You should have that shit listed on the sales page along with the weight. "This skein is 6oz of fingering-weight 100% unicorn hair yarn, 10,000 yards." See how easy it is? You can get most of this information about yarn you are planning to sell by knowing how much a yard/meter of it weights, a scale, and a wrap stick. (If you don't already know what the fiber composition is of the yarn you're making, you are in the wrongest business.)

Of course, this requires having a bit of skill with math. Enough to use a basic calculator.

This is asking a bit much of the Tranchers, I admit...
 
What the fuck, have you been outside/to a first world country? There's a reason the word "normies" is uttered by most of those groups (substance abusers are too high to care) and why most of the people we cataloge on this site fall into those categories. These people aren't the norm, they're an incubator for the exceptional. Not being terminally online is a sign of normality and is practiced by most people.

the amount of normie passing people being freaks is pretty high. between "kink", anime/furry/sci-fi, general too-dead-to-care anymore + 3 drinks a day, the mob of moms on facebook, the rural folks and their whole barrel of batshit, the cult of "crime" that everyone from tweenrats to hood rats participates in: nearly damn near everyone in america and europe are utterly loonified in one way or another by the internet or it's ideas that its spread. sure, jamal and barb might not know that fluffy500butts fucks dogs in a 4k rug using twitter but they both regularly cheat on their spouses using tinder and cant stop looking at instagram reels.

for those unaffected by internet rot and the ccc (coom and consume culture), the western societies are pushing more and more for everyone to participate in it. government, work places, schools. you're expected to carry your life now in the palm of your hand and use the internet to make "everything faster". rural folks were already mocked for not wanting to participate and now its considered almost slander to not put work apps on yourphone as a citydeweller. its going and is already pushing those who would have been normies without it to the fringes.

the people catalogued here are like taking a skimmer across the vast pond of fucked up first world shenagians and just pulling out the big, chunky social media slaves who are full of themselves and have no real things like responsibilties or consequences to keep them from thinking twice from doing the full loonie crap.
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Going to shill my own attempt to catalogue their animal neglect. Please, anyone who knows more about alpaca/sheep raising look over these photos, is this sort of discoloration of their fur normal?

It's just mud, a consequence of them stripping their land so that the animals can't even find a clean, dry place to lay down. Apart from in their own feed, hence all their wool being mixed with mud, shit and grass. If they used a feeder they'd end up with less straw in their wool, but even hosing the alpacas down the day before shearing would have little effect if they were just turned out to lay in the mud again.

I doubt they'll have much trouble with fly strike, if only because those sort of flies aren't found near them because none of their neighbours are dumb enough to keep livestock.


I wonder if all those little green tufts over their field are going to turn into giant useless bushes like the one in this picture. Does anyone have any idea what it is? If they don't get them under control (which may mean digging them all up by hand) then all their land may turn into some useless thicket of bramble/gorse/blackthorn which would be impenetrable even to alpaca. It would be truly bizarre if their land turned green again with something totally inedible.
 
For comparison here are photos of healthy, normal weight alpaca at an alpaca show. Also note that you can visually see the difference in the fiber quality.
It's quite upsetting to look at the tranch animals comparatively. These guys are so well taken care of it makes the tranchers look even worse.
Powerleveling agri-sperging: Dairy farms have things called integrated spraying systems that are basically like little car washes for cows. They're also used for stuff like fly spray, tick repellent, and cooling the cows when it's hot out. I don't know if they're used for wool animals like alpacas, but getting one would be a better purchase for the ranch than getting drones and body armor and a metal staircase. Probably way cheaper too.
Cows also need footbaths to keep their hooves clean. Again, not sure if they'd be used for alpacas but any small dairy farm would have them. Cows can be pretty gross and smelly and they never get spotless (they're animals afterall) but if you give them the means to get cleaner they typically know what to do, it's easier than giving a cat a bath that's for sure.

I've also seen cows and horses roll around on grass. I'm assuming that it helps brush dirt off their coats and they seem to enjoy it. If the Tranch wasn't unfairly victimized by trans-exclusionary grass and actually had some greenery, could the 'pacas roll around on it? Are they dirty cause they live in a dust bowl? I'm assuming everything gets dirtier and dustier with no grass.
Cows get their own cow showers? What the fuck, this is the cutest fun fact on this thread yet. Fuck yes.
 
Does anyone have any idea what it is?
It looks like what my parents called prairie sagebrush when I was a kid. Woody stemmed, smells good but it isn't grazeable for anything but pronghorns n mule deer and even they don't like it. Recipe for prairie fire in late summer too.
 
It looks like what my parents called prairie sagebrush when I was a kid. Woody stemmed, smells good but it isn't grazeable for anything but pronghorns n mule deer and even they don't like it. Recipe for prairie fire in late summer too.
If left untrampled, the possible tranch fire saga would get more kindling. But that's only if the alpacas don't trample it (or bumblefucks don't run it over).
 
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