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Well, 'tis the season and the Standard Bronze hens are laying eggs every day. I'm not quite ready to fire up the incubator yet so I thought I'm offer some eggs up you nice people. These Standard Bronze birds come from our own Kevin Porter and they are truly magnificent. The Toms are scary...

After much dilly dallying around (is she in heat, is she not in heat, do we want to breed her this early.....) we finally got my miniature Jersey/Holstein bred to one of the premier mini Jerseys. He's a paint so we're hoping for great things that can't possibly happen with the genetics we're...

Okay, so I weaned the babies off their momma cold turkey. Two weeks later she's still got a full udder and she seems to be rather irritable. Other than that she's been fine, eating drinking pooping-everything's okay. So this morning I could hear her calling for me and she sounded like she was...

So last year we bred three goats and only one took. She gave us two pretty little boys and we banded them right away. Ummmm yeah, about this banding thing, apparently you're supposed to check every few days to make sure the band is still in place because it would appear that I now have a...

Neighbor guy was getting evicted and they couldn't get this horse to get on a trailer because they were mean to her the last time they loaded her (used a cattle prod) and now they can't load her. So he wanted to know if we could keep her just a week or two until his trainer could come with him...

So we had wonderful hatches from our incubator last year. Over the winter Greg decided to add the water reservoir up on top of the incubator that comes from the same company. So this year the first hatch was great but the bedding in the brooder area was WAY too wet. Each hatch since then has...

Just thought I'd drop in and let everyone know that we are just about drowning in turkey and Cochin babies. My Cochins come in Blue, Splash and Black with some that are frizzed. They are related to the winner of National Stock Show poultry division so they really are pretty, pretty birds which...

Please be kind to me, I've lost my mother, my dogs are going in to be put to sleep and now I lost my little Bourbon breeder hen from Kevin Porter. Her name was Prunella. So I'm going to be a little touchier than usual if someone tells me I was stupid when sprouting for my birds. Anyway, last...

I have WAY too many eggs right now and WAY too many babies. If you're in Colorado please, please come take some of these poults off my hands. The older ones are 10 each and the batch just getting ready to hatch will be 7. Anyway, I have Midget Whites. These turkeys come from Steve at SandS...

We've had 100% fertility and hatch on these beautiful, strong Bourbons. I've sent some to a friend and she too got a fantastic hatch rate and viability on shipped eggs in a little styrofoam incubator. The hen is from an egg out Steve's flock and the Tom is a hatchery bird but together...

We had to rehome my last dog because he killed several of my chickens. What was I thinking when I got a Beagle/Border Collie mix? We've also always had a big Dane/lab rescue and big Dobie/boxer rescue who've never been out long enough to even know we had chickens or turkeys so I was never sure...

We've got an order in with Steve but I want to start out from the get go with two different lines. Looking for very well feathered feeties and nice big puffy bodies and hens that go broody at the drop of a hat.

I got a new dog. She's a cute little girl part chihauhau part Beagle, seems very bright and very spoiled, one year old. Problem is she acts like she has a bladder infection and in all my years with dogs I've never in my life had a dog with a bladder infection. Can dogs get them? She seems to...

This is the second day we've found an egg in the Bourbon pen. Isn't it like WAY too early for them to be laying and if they are going to be laying what are the chances that it's fertile? The ones who are laying are the girls from this year's hatch and it's BLOODY cold out there so I'm thinking...

I've got this big Dane/lab mix, about seven years old. We'd had several danes and rescued this boy thinking that the lab part of his gene pool would contribute to a little bit longer life span and less chance of the cancers that danes seem to be plagued with. Well, like I said he's seven now...

Sorry can't get a picture because Barbara is just plain cranky most of the time but she has this bulbous THING on her neck. Looks like a giant spider egg sack (Okay, I'm a big time horror reader but it just looks like something that's going to burst and have maggots or spiders spilling out of...

I"ve got these four bourbon hens that I hatched out this year who travel around in a little gang getting into trouble and just generally terrorizing everyone else on the farm. They chase the cats everywhere. They're just curious, they want to see what cats are all about and possibly whether or...

I have a lovely, lovely breeding pair of adolescent Cochins (not bantams). The roo is black and the hen is blue. They're being amazingly gentle and helpful parents to all of my turkey babies but that's another story. Anyway, since getting these Cochins I've just been head over heels in love...

I've never had good luck with shipped eggs but decided to try them again this year with my new Sportsman. I set eggs from my farm, from Mamawolf and from Longranger and they were due to hatch May 7th. This morning I have four Midget Whites from Mamawolf running around in my hatcher with more...

Came home this evening to find one of my Midget White hens dead. I've noticed that she didn't lay an egg for the last couple of days but other than that all seemed well. No weird droppings, no sniffles, everybody eating and drinking.....and then dead. Now on my other hen, who is also behaving...