Recent content by PatriciafromCO

Yes it's awful to look at right around the homestead, hard lesson to learn that the bush hog mower on the tractor can be too harsh in some soil types. We hope to get it restored with reseeding Yet with all the weeds and wild sunflowers we get an abundance of bugs and insects and stuff they love...

I feed the well every couple of days in the warmer months so they will get out of the barn and get their own food. This year has been the best natural food maker with plenty of late snows and a great monsoon season .. Love seeing them enjoying themselves and how good they look.

They so pretty, Mine that look like this are talouse /African mixes.

What's the natural feed. What can they eat in the environment?

Lots of good sharing. I had 7 city GSD when we moved to start our home stead. They were older and trained and the process was easy giving the same structure training about the birds and livestock. They not care personally, they were territorial for predator guarding areas and the animals as...

What do you want from your dog? How do you want to live with your birds? What have you tried? What do breed groups for your breed say about ability and training?. Am big on supervision . working on daily routine around the birds tethered to you and in the area. And containment when you can't...

Caucasian Ovcharka from Ukraine and Russia. It was same or cheaper to import Overseas from established breeders in the breed as what they are charging in the US breeders. Overseas the majority of the cost is plane fare not because they not a rare breed.

I remember when I first got started in chickens. Always amazes that a momma bird be so aggressive if she felted the needed be for her babies. I can appreciate this shot and how calm momma is.

Little home hatching was woohoo attracted to my guy Tasman

You've already thought of re enforcing your current area..our barn cats hate strange cats. Not sure why they not go after our babies??? Don't know cats but they raised as kittens with them. Also we have dogs, my gsd did the same job as my current guardian breed. Only different is the Guardian...

Hope this can be the group hatching baby thread if it's ok with OP? My silver Appleyard hatched a new batch of little ones. Will say this breed is natural in setting and complete hatching. Sweet sweet happy ducks. Good mommas too. They are color sexed at birth the males are blacker Not...

I don't have water out with home hatched ducklings that are loose. Being cared for by their mamma. Even if I did put the little baby drinking stations out. The geese would want to drink out ore them and they be empty anyway. Is it because of the heat lamp you need water all the time? Here...

A small panel kennel is a good investment while learning. Can be placed were you want it. And used when you can't supervise out side. When you are out side leash them to you or tie them out where your working. My childhood collie when they were bigger dogs was a vermant killer, wild rabbits...

Honestly even with just barb wire my goats stayed on property for their life time. Food shelter large property to roam on no one looking to leave. One of the llama got off property once through loose barb wire area. Ran up the adjoining hill. I called to the remaining llamas at the fence...

Good luck with the Jenny. My first attempt at pasture guardians for my goats, were 3 intact male llamas. No females for miles and got lucky the llamas were so territorial in a group but only good for single predators they could attack as a group. They would of been ripped up by a pack of...