Posts by estpr13

Quote:Originally Posted by dmiravalle Ok, here are a few I have come across since we raise a lot of our own meat.  From an teenager, "Look, the bulls do have udders, I told you!"( I teach 4-H and Farm Life classes) I...

Quote:Originally Posted by justbugged Quote:Originally Posted by annaraven Quote:Originally Posted by estpr13 Rule Number two:  ...  Cats will kill and eat mice and other things that come to eat the feed at...

Quote:Originally Posted by rebelcowboysnb Quote:Originally Posted by sablevulpe "when a mommy chicken and a daddy rooster love each other very much... wait a minute, you have SEVEN children, do I really have to explain...

I wonder if dubbing is as painful as piercings, or circumcision, or tattoos?  I've come home to find roos with torn and bloody combs and wattles from fighting.  I found one with a hole torn in his comb and another with a chunk...

Quote:Originally Posted by rebelcowboysnb Quote:Originally Posted by donnaohlone It is only flat on the bottomThat's a line from a foke song. Red Sovine & Johnny Bond - The Gear Jammer And The Hobo Not being dumb its a...

Death and Dying, Sex and Reproduction, and Where food comes from are not taught in schools because they have always been observed at home on the farm.  Now that we are removed from farm life these areas are giving society...

From my end of the Coop.My White Cornish hen was found in a nesting box with two chicks, one of which wasn't hers.  Now for a hen that grabbed a chick that was a few days old and flings it in the air with seemingly violent intent,...

Quote:Originally Posted by shelleyd2008 If the mamas are used to you (and used to you being the 'food guy') the babies will eventually calm down some. Sooner or later mama will tell them the secret about you being the guy with...

Wow!  One of the newly hatched chicks about 4-6 days old fell out of its nest and got in with the other young chicks.  You would have thought that it was a wicked beast from hell the way the cornish hen grabbed it an gave it a...

Current news from my end of the coop.The sixth and hopefully last of my broody hens finally hatched a single chick after being on and off a nest for the past four weeks.  It also appears that she is molting.  She is doing okay,...