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2/4/12 at 7:48pm

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cute Rayden story lol He used to gather up the chicks that escaped from their brooder. He'd pick them up and bring them to me when they got out. I'd see him running around the yard, trying to gather them all up because the kids would let them out of the brooder.

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2/4/12 at 7:53pm

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Delaware are my main birds right now. I have a pair of Silkies and not near enough of all the breeds I would like to have!

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2/4/12 at 7:54pm

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The last post was our Boston Terrier, Harley. He loves to watch the new chicks in the stock tank. He goes and checks on them a lot!

Delaware are my main birds right now. I have a pair of Silkies and not near enough of all the breeds I would like to have!

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2/4/12 at 7:56pm

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Bull terrier? Body shape and ears look it... Nice coloring

Eta: nevermind, you said he was a Boston as I was typing. Good body shape on him.
Edited by nickie - 2/4/12 at 8:00pm

1 husband, 1 son, 1 daughter, 1 cat, 3 dogs, 6 ducks, 7 turkeys, too many chickens of all ages and stages, and bunches of fish... Do you wonder why I'm nutts?

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2/4/12 at 8:51pm

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Stock tank! What an awesome brooder!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Poultry: Wheaten, Blue Wheaten, & White Ameraucanas, Easter & Olive Eggers, & Red Jungle Fowl, Silver Appleyard Ducks and Sweetgrass Turkeys.

Cari J.

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2/4/12 at 8:58pm

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Here's my girl Maya, the chickens happen to be behind the fence in the first pic, but they all come out together and she is good with them.

Cari J.

♠ www.whitemountainsranch.org ♠ Working on an organic sustainable farm!

The Ranch: English Mastiff & Pyrenees LGD's, Californian Rabbits, Nubian Goats and Blackbelly Sheep.

Poultry: Wheaten, Blue Wheaten, & White Ameraucanas, Easter & Olive Eggers, & Red Jungle Fowl, Silver Appleyard Ducks and Sweetgrass Turkeys.

Cari J.

♠ www.whitemountainsranch.org ♠ Working on an organic sustainable farm!

The Ranch: English Mastiff & Pyrenees LGD's, Californian Rabbits, Nubian Goats and Blackbelly Sheep.

Poultry: Wheaten, Blue Wheaten, & White Ameraucanas, Easter & Olive Eggers, & Red Jungle Fowl, Silver Appleyard Ducks and Sweetgrass Turkeys.

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2/5/12 at 8:37am

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Oh gads, that's a scream!

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2/5/12 at 8:38am

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White Mountain Ranch,

Is that a mastiff of some sort? Beaut!

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The last post was our Boston Terrier, Harley. He loves to watch the new chicks in the stock tank. He goes and checks on them a lot!

Our Shelties do the same thing. Like dog TV for them, I guess.

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2/5/12 at 8:41am

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Thanks, she's a good girl, they both are. The only thing she is bad about is taking duck eggs and walking around with them in her mouth like a baseball, dropping them at your feet and waiting expectantly for you to throw them... Good thing I usually gather them before I let the dogs out now.

I had to laugh at this. Our Sheltie Little Bits is ball-obsessed. If she ever got into the next boxes it's be scrambled eggs every day, I'm sure!