Ive tried Backyardherds with no luck, so Im trying here. This is Maizey and she came from a bad situation, I couldn't leave her there. This is my first time owning goats so Im not seasoned yet. She has a funny walk and a large belly(in my opinion), looks like a possible healed injury on her...
We are upgrading from an 8x6 modified shed to a 6 hole 24ft long breeding pen so we can separate our silkies and polish/polish frizzles by color. I found Jebs breeding pens and we based our plans off them loosely. We built a small mix-pen coop as we are calling it a few months ago, and decided...
I just came within 50ft of a big cat in my creek, went out to lock the girls up and my LSGD went nuts, I saw a possum so we got the bow and came back out, couldn't find him so we started scanning the creek bed and BAM there is a massive mountain lion, staring into my soul. We locked eyes and...
The kids picked chicks from the feed store, I think they're about 9wks old now... Don't exactly recall, but this little thing has me stumped... Im pretty sure its a bantam but what I don't know. Help?
It was solid black as a chick
Next to an EE and welsummer same age:
Bought a feed store duck, they told me it was a pekin but Ive never seen a pekin like this before lol Any ideas? I thought indian runner but def not that either
Welllll I know it's Moline--- a wagon wheel or tractor wheel??? We just bought 100 acres and I found it a few weeks ago and lost it until today, anyone have any idea what exactly it is or maybe what it belongs on. I can tell you it is about 3ft wide but the rest is buried so I couldn't say how...
According to my husband... The kids and I went and got some ducklings, even though we were only there for feed and shavings lol!
Mommmmyy please can we have ducks??? Sure why not
We just got 100 acres with three ponds, we need ducks right?!
They told me the black one is a magpie but I...
At a loss, I have two one was for sure a boy but this one is an unknown... Guesses? It's just around for looks but I would love for "it" to be a girl... About 12 wks old now
I have a frizzle who is very ill with cocci, I have been treating her since yesterday when I noticed some bloody stool but she isn't responding as well as the others. She is inside now and I have been hydrating her with some sugar water mixed with a tiny dose of Corid, she is responding ok but...
Got a new coop!!! So happy, the girls are still iffy about it and we have a few skeptical girls at night who aren't sure how to get back in! We got a resin shed off craigslist for free and added vents around the top, it had two installed in back already and a door on the side for them to go to...
I have my egg girls, but Im ready to start raising and processing my own meaties, I am nervous, I have never killed anything so my brother in law is helping me with that bc that will be the hardest part for me... Cleaning is no big deal. I have been researching, watching and reading about how to...
we had severe weather and tornadoes here tonight so Im resting on the couch following up on the storms when I hear a crash... Back in Oct I lost three birds to and opossum--my coop is ft. knox now, so they are targeting my rabbits!!! I have the snare up but what more can I do to deter them, the...
We know we are silkies but mom cant tell us what colors we are!!!! Help?!
Im new to silkies so the coloration is a big unknown to me, I know the yellow one is probably a splash and maybe a black or two in there???
I have 8 hens, one roo and two eggs every other day... Two of my girls are 1yr and the others are all 7 months, I have a mix of EE's, jersey giant, a maran some silkies and a brahma... NONE of the younger girls are laying and Im really over it... They have been dewormed, all appear healthy, no...
Cinderella has been fighting me tooth and nail to hatch some babies, so I let her have some eggs! Two of her own and 8 mixed who knows, mostly silkie eggs! I incubated some eggs to hatch out on Vday and I didn't get a single baby so heres to hoping Cinderella can hatch her babies! Pretty excited...
I have this little chick with a coloration that I cannot determine, these are my first jap chicks and normally I do ok with coloration guessing but Im at a loss on this one folks... Ideas, what coloration is this?
My best guess was a mottled
Here chick is in a sea of packing peanuts...
So I ordered eggs to hatch out for valentines, well sadly most of them got too cold during shipping since our crazy TX weather went, well, crazy and none hatched... I went to the feed store and bought some chicks to make myself feel better, it worked. Then I got to thinking, what's the longest...
We have had on and off URI's all winter, it started with the cold snap and ice back in Dec and now it's just off and on, the girls get layer feed, treats, vitamin water every now and then and free range but we cannot get rid of the colds! It starts with one and then two more will get it...