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This past Saturday, hubby sent me a text message at work saying that there was a chicken running loose in the field near the Lowes' parking lot. I told him to try to rescue her, but he said it was impossible because she was too fast and there was nowhere to corner her. So, the next day I was...

So, this all happened months ago, and I shared it with all my facebook friends but I realized that I totally forgot to post it on here...duh! Anywho, this is the story of my OEGB-mix rooster, Frankenstein, and how I managed to bring him back from the dead: I officially now have the coolest...

Hey, guys, it's been quite a while since I last posted but I figured nobody else would get how I am feeling right now. Came home to find almost my entire flock dead without a mark on them. My first thought was the heat, but it wasn't any hotter than it has been and there were several...

It's been about a million years since I posted, but I had to share this story and I knew you guys would appreciate it! I officially now have the coolest farming story EVER. Today, I found one of the tiny OEGB roosters on his back in the coop, with his feet sticking straight up. He wasn't...

I came home to a very un-welcome, but unfortunately not unfamiliar, sight this evening. I went out to feed my goats and saw feathers all over the ground, which I knew meant that one of my chickens or ducks had to have gotten into the goat pen and become a toy for my stupid Pyr, Bear. He is...

One of my Pilgrim geese cute her foot on the side right where it joins the leg. It is bleeding ALOT (as in, blood squirting 1 ft in the air) and I cannot get it to stop. I cleaned the wound as best as I could and have been holding pressure on it but as soon as I let go it starts bleeding...

We have decided to focus on our registered herd of dairy goats so we're selling our three UNREGISTERED (but purebred) Nigerian Dwarf dairy goats and their 3 kids. I have three blue-eyed adult does (One 4 yr old, Pepper, and her two 3 yr old daughters, Bitsy and Domino), 2 doelings (one 5 wk old...

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I have two wire dog crates that I was using to put a young BR turkey and his two mutt chick buddies in so they could be assimilated into the flock without getting pecked by the older chickens...one outside in the shade for daytime and one in the coop for nighttime. Well, I locked the turkey and...

Why is it always the rule that if one of your chickens is going to get hurt of sick it's always your favorites? This time it was our favorite light brahma hen, the one that we call 'the friendly fatty.' I have had 3 or 4 of my hens trying to play the broody game with limited success. One...

I have 3 pregnant NDs. They were all bred around the same time frame and are due any day now. All three have started building their udders, the ligaments don't feel terribly loose to me, but this is my first kidding to I'm no expert by far. Today I noticed that the oldest female, Pepper (she...

I have a young muscovy drake that I noticed had what looked like goop or swelling in the corner of one eye. So, I caught him and after all of the flapping and thrashing was contained, I could see frothy bubbles in the corner of his eye. He is acting normally otherwise, and eating fine...if...

I brought home a trio of Muscovy ducklings when I went to pick up the new goats (could not resist, of course!). One of them is a little smaller than the others but 10 times meaner! Anytime someone sticks their hand in the brooder to mess with them she attacks your hand and bites you as hard as...

Some of you might remember my chicken 'litterbox' project that I put together for my little coop at the old house. It worked great, but since we have moved it has not gotten a lot of use, now that the chickens all roost in the rafters of their new coop. And with the addition of my Nigi's I...

I am trying to fine tune my feeding program, and I need some info from those of you with Nigi's...how much grain do you feed per day for your goats? I found a chart online from Fiasco Farm that has everything listed out all neatly by gender, age, and whether they are pregnant or in milk or...

We took a little family fishing trip down to the Colorado river in Bastrop today and I found 4 ducklings that someone had obviously dumped at the park. There are a LOT of ducks and geese that hang around the boat ramp area begging for food (most look like random domestic crosses) so I guess...

Okay, so I already have 3 unregistered Nigi does and 1 soon-to-be-sold Nigi buck that I bought for backyard milk production. After much research I decided I would like to also get a small herd of registered Nigi's and possibly get into showing as well. I reserved this little buckling from...

I am trying to order some Indian Runner ducks and some Pilgrim Geese from Metzer Farms, but there is a minimum order of $30 and 10 birds. I'd like to get a pair of Pilgrim geese and 3 or 4 Runner Ducks...would anybody in the Central Texas area like to split an order? Apparently the geese are...

So, I bought 2 Khaki Campbell and what I thought were 2 Rouen ducklings at the feed store a while back. I lost one of the supposed Rouens to a drowning incident and was left with just the 2 Khakis and the one 'Rouen' girl. Only now I am suspecting that my Rouen is actually a mallard. She...

Not something I ever expected to have to do in my lifetime, but when you have chicken's for pets there is no telling what sort of weird trouble they will get themselves into... It all started when Bunny, one of my sweet EE girls, was outside free ranging and I noticed something funny when she...