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    Dairy cows

    The cows are good! Thsyre starting to bag up so we are getting close, only about a month and a half away! Cutie!!! Im so glad your cheese turned out!
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    Fertilized eggs?

    Yeah, we tried that and genuinely the flashlight isnt strong enough to go through the green eggs we keep getting. Haha yeah, I noticed the whitish spots on them when I cracked them in the pan and went, oh no! Did I just use our fertilized eggs? Because I couldnt tell if they looked like...
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    Fertilized eggs?

    So we dont have a rooster but we do have some rouen ducks and a drake. They are all still pretty young (like 22 weeks) so i am assuming if they are laying their eggs would be pretty small. Anyways I cant see through green shells using a candling light and am worried I may have mistaken some of...
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    Dairy cows

    I didnt realize that pigs could have milk! Thats a fun idea. We are planning on calf sharing so hopefully we won't have too much excess but we definitely will still have more than our little family can consume, especially at the start.
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    Dairy cows

    I also have never milked anything before so itll be a weird learning curve. Oooh, goats are kind of cute. Yeah, I will share my experiments when they come. Our first calf should be here in early to mid May and then the experiments begin haha
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    Dairy cows

    Honestly I'm mostly going to waste some figuring out how to make cheese. We probably will wind up doing some feeder pigs but at the moment I am a bit scared of pigs haha. We have 3 very curious young kids so I worry that they'd think pigs are as easy going as our other animals and stumble into...
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    Dairy cows

    Okay so backstory to the saga that I intend to start documenting. I did not grow up near farm animals and neither did my husband. We moved to what was previously an active dairy farm thinking we could slowly start with chickens and sort of move on from there and maybe eventually get a single...
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    Egg hunt?

    We did this morning and got our first egg in the nesting boxes! Hopefully the other chickens will follow suit soon. Day 2 and we have 2 layers out of 10 so thats exciting!
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    Wisconsin "Cheeseheads"

    We got our first egg today! Oddly enough it was one of the Brahmas and not one of the Easter Eggers. We think she has been laying for a few days but not in the nesting boxes because she has been squatting for a week or so. We put some fake eggs in the nesting boxes and she figured it out...
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    Egg hunt?

    Thats good to know, thank you. Yeah I think I can probably keep them in just the coop and run for a couple of days to see if any eggs turn up. Its supposed to rain tomorrow anyways so it'll keep them a bit happier anyways.
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    Egg hunt?

    Do they usually bury their eggs like ducks do?
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    Egg hunt?

    We have some chickens that we got late last summer. They havent laid any eggs yet because they were just too young when winter set in. One of them has been squatting for about a week but we cant find any eggs. They are free range but mostly stay in one specific area so we have looked in that...
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    Wisconsin "Cheeseheads"

    Thats really good to know! I will make sure to do that.
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    Wisconsin "Cheeseheads"

    My chickens are Light Brahmas and Easter Eggers (Americanas). We have been using all flock feed because we also have ducks. We are adding in oyster shell though to make sure theyre getting calcium and they are getting some treats but not very often.
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    Wisconsin "Cheeseheads"

    I'm new to chicken keeping and had a question, with these cold temperatures when do yall expect to get some eggs? We got our chickens pretty late last year and they didn't mature until late fall so we didn't get any eggs before winter started. Now I'm just anxiously (okay more excitedly) waiting...
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