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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...

That first pic where you see both of the turkeys from behind and they BOTH have hair/feathers going up the back of their necks? That tells me that you probably have a very nice set of Bourbon hens. I could tell you for sure if I had a pic of their chests because the girlies will have white...

If you can catch her in the act the old kitty spray bottle of water works pretty well. I'd put her in a timeout where she can't be around her frenemies anymore. Then when you put her back in with the flock in say three weeks, she won't be top dog anymore and all the other girls will have...

You're going to get a different answer from everyone. I've raised Commercial whites, Midget Whites, Bourbons, and Bronzes. The Bourbons are by far, way by FAR, friendlier and more curious than any other variety of turkey that I have raised. They love their treats and will come up to the house...

I've had this happen every once in awhile. The old timers will tell you it's impossible but I'm telling you that there's no other explanation for the extra egg.

Well, Bourbons are a fine, fine choice for a first time turkey breeder. They're so amazingly friendly and sweet and curious that you can just shut the TV off forever and watch their antics, very entertaining. Now for a brooder.....you didn't say how many babies you're getting so I can't...

We have a set up just like the other hoop house picture. We pile up the goat and cow manure and waste from the house and it goes to the hoop house. The chickens and turkeys head straight for the hoop house every morning hoping we've added something wondrous in the night or to continue to dig for...

Well, the problem is that it costs 120 to preg test and I'm just about at the point where I can feed her or I can preg test her.......So I was just sort of hoping someone could tell me if she should have been really messy if she'd lost the baby like she will be if she goes to term.

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...

Yes, we milked her (and all the other goats) right up until they were about six weeks from delivering their new babies. Babies were born in March and between the babies and our milking she was milked pretty dry. We sold both the little bucks she had and then we had a series of emergencies here...

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...

The babies were born on a Monday and I needed Greg's help to band them so they didn't get banded until the next Saturday or Sunday but certainly they were less than a week old. We were quite certain when we banded them that we'd captured both testes but it never even occurred to me to check a...

We took the trailer out into the pasture and we put her water and food up in the trailer just a few feet, then we put it up a few more feet so she actually has to put her front feet in the trailer. She's REAL spooky about putting her front feet into the trailer so I'm going to give her a little...

Oh, we definitely separated them as soon as we figured out what was going on. But he's after everyone, even my tiny pygmy monster, evil goat. It's weird though because he doesn't SMELL like a buck so I never saw this coming.

As it turns out, for those of you following the abandoned horse story, it turns out that the Denver Dumb Friends League (the people I already love as they will spay/neuter and give first shots for 10 bucks) has a new facility that is taking in horses who's owners just can't afford to feed them...