Our 1 yr old sow Delilah went into labor last night. Surprisingly she only had 4 piglets but they are all healthy. I keep waiting for another to pop out but I think she is done. Funny cause our other sow usually has 8-10.
Well here they are...
Not really a problem but site is slow as molasses. I have a very fast computer so it is not a big deal for me but for some there may be a problem. Pic heavy will take it's toll.
We had a nice New Years eve surprise with 8 piglets being born. Right away I saw one had a problem standing. It turned out that its rear legs were deformed. It could not eat and we were hand feeding it for 2 days trying to see if it could by some miracle make it. It was just not to be. I had to...
Sadie the Wonder Dog protecting my Cochin chicks
My Bantam Buff Cochin hen Mable and her new chick taking refuge under my tractor which Sadie lays next to all day
I have a den of foxes behind the geerage. 6 kits. Chickens were disapearing two at a time. I put the trap out and caught one kit. The others would not go in. Now mind you I am an ex Army Ranger with 2 tours in Vietnam under my belt. But when I got the .22 out and put the crosshairs on the little...
Well I could not get my broody to switch to another area so when our Roo Golden Boy was killed by a fox I took 9 eggs marked them with an X and left them everyday in the nestbox. Luckily I had 2 hens go broody so it was a swap were they sat ordeal. I only have 4 nestboxes and am down to 15 hens...
I have a cochin bantam hen that has been broody for awhile now. I decided to let her hatch some eggs but had to move her because she was getting pushed out of the nestbox. So I made her a nice little section all by herself and moved her to it. She sat on the eggs until I left. Then she gets off...
I have a little Cochin Batam that has been broody for months. I built a seperate area for her today. Has nestbox, roost, and small run. I want to stick some EE eggs under her. How many is the max?
I noticed two or 3 of my hens have feathers right above their tails that seem to have been broken off. The only rooster I have is a little bantam cochin. He does jump on them and this is were he tries like heck to hang on. lol. I was thinking maybe he was breaking their feathers.
What do you...
Woke this morning to some strange sounds coming from my daughters bedroom. Seems our pig Lilly has been spending a little time hiding behind the barn rubbing noses with our neighbors boar lol. We had an idea she was pregnant but we weren't sure. Well I peek in there and see this.
Mother and...
The birds took one look outside today when I opened the coop and said "No way"! lol. They hate to walk in the snow. Have another couple inches on the ground and supposed to get 5 or 6 more by tommorro.
My girls are not slowing down one bit this winter. Actually they are laying more now then ever before. I give away our surplus eggs but since we have been snowbound here in NJ for the past 2 months my supply is growing. I have read that non refrigerated eggs last longer but with temps in the...
Found an egg layed in my lumber shed yesterday. So as per the advise I read on here I did not let the chickens out today. They have freeranged since they were babies. They were all standing in the run waiting for me to let them out this morning. They all yelled at me when I walked away lol.
How...