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.
Still devastated from a massive loss. My oldest original flock gander passed away almost or at 18 years with us. His matriarch also part of my original 7 Africans passed away a few days later. And it just continued throughout his long standing females family group. I've always known them to...
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Doing barn work and spending time enjoying hanging out with the birds and especially my new turkey babies.. Catching a moment with one of my growing BR babies taking a nap on Tasman....
I want to grow my own food for birds.. They love to graze, they love to eat out of the hay animals hay, I don't feed them everyday once they are adults so they will get out and go find their own during the spring and summer months. Winter I stock up on bag food. Be nice if I was more self...
So thrilled it's been several years since loosing our family turkey Toe... Struggled about getting turkeys again for his loss.. Did get Bourbon Reds again love everything about the breed, wanted to try a new breed Royal Palms what little spunky fun loving babies,, am sure I am going to...
picked up my new chicks this morning, went straight to the barn where I have some long setting broody hens on some failed eggs and just opened the chick box, put them under the hen and walked away. She loves them !!! Yay, for cheating lol.. Been wanting to try that for a long time. Came...
Am trying a new breed. my last ducks were the hybrid star breed from McMurry's they lived for 15 years and I still have one female offspring. Being she is the only duck left I wanted get her some company. Anyone else raise the Silver Appleyards
Am in Colorado which is a dry climate . 2001 until 2006 my birds / fowl were high hatchets. So much that I didn't need to re purchase from my original birds. Then it dwindled and then then barely to nothing even with bringing in new birds.. This year it's crazy with so far full hatches of...
Trying out a new baby holding / grow area.. They seem to like it. They can mow down a lot to Timothy hay for such little things.. Many things I worried about using a 56 inch Pet play pen. The barn gets really warm this time of the year for most of the day my main concern that the play pen...
OH MY,,, :) huge sudden out burst in the barn. At first I thought I would find a rattle snake on the ground from hearing the Guinea hen going off like he was, Walked in saw the Guinea and the Rooster standing there upset, but my girl was bouncing off the back wall of the barn.. Never...
has always been my favorite game with the turkeys... play'd just like regular bingo you have your bingo cards and a way to mark them, have all balls or chips that are numbered with letters... And you need at least one live turkey and having a group of turkeys all the more fun...
hey, been a Barred Rock gal for 16 years love them.... decided to try some new breeds this year and it's been fun New Hampshire Reds and Welsummers NHR's are still young but very sweet, my Welsummers are still babies but have stolen my heart.. Received a free chick in my order , forgot to...