I have one and love it. I just got Monster Hunter 3. If anyone owns a Wii and would like to play let me know. Any other games too I only really have MH 3 and Smash brothers with online play but I am looking into getting other games.
Well after a wild cubano hen hatched some babies and I have a claret sitting on a clutch with also my big blue buff orpington Beauty Queen sitting on eggs....I got the hatch fever too. So I dragged the old Sportsman out of storage and cleaned and disinfected it. Now I am letting it dry and will...
My uncle was being thoughtful and gave me a Saint bernard puppy for protecting my animals. I'm curious as to if they make effective lgds. I know they are used as herding dogs but I read up on them soon as the puppy came to stay with me and it is a lot of training to be done for them in other...
I decided to pop back in here and see about all my private message notices I've been getting aand realized it's been well over a year since I last posted to BYC. I got hit by some hard times and just recently recovering and figured I should get back into all my old haunts. And I'm looking...
I bought some broilers from Welp and some buttercups along with buff orpington pullets and to fill the order out I placed an order for 5 red jungle fowl. WHat arived was 1 extra buffo pullet and 6...6 extra jungle fowl chicks. So out of 11 jungle fowl I know I'm going to get more roosters than I...
Last year my Dad taught me the art of wine making. He had been telling me for years how to do it but everytime we tried to make some my grapevine yielded squat. Well it did make grapes but so few the birds beat us to them. Last year a fair amount of grapes were produced and I started my...
Miss Prissy asked about vent sexing but I could not find my guide on sexing birds so I'm just going to try and explain it as best as I can and try to get some pics later. I've used this method for 7-8 years with about 85% accuracy on sexing waterfowl. I've tried to learn to vent sex chicks but...
I was really hoping for things to settle down around my place but no such luck! I won't be having a Christmas goose as I had been planning before. I just got the call a little while ago that Welp had very poor hatch rates on this...their last batch of goslings for the year! My order went from 10...
I had a snake invade my shop yesterday and he ate my best and only adult Texas AM hen. She had the broadest breast on any of them! I was really looking forward to breeding her! Now I have to wait another 3-4 weeks for the 2 week old babies to see what I have. My male TAM is calling and pacing...
If you can't look at graphic pics this is the time to walk away from this post. I dealt with too many problems this morning and now several less ants in the world and another predator.
I walked into my shop this morning and as I got ready to feed everyone I noticed that some of the cages were...
I stumbled into this on Youtube and thought it was more of one of those cute things you get a few laughs out of and thought others would have some fun with this video too.
Grocery Store Wars
I couldn't get any fast growing CC from Welp and had to sub for the slow growers. I have some red broilers on the way as well from Ideal and I'm curious if I should treat the slow grow CC's like the reds. I raised Texas A&M CC's for livestock show back in high school but never dealt with their...
Well as some have heard the very first quail I hatched turned out to be killer Tennesse Red quail. As muh as I would have loved to kept them as breeders the fact they killed 3 of my coturnix made the choice to cull them easier.
I feel bad... I botched the first kill and only whacked half way...
I've had it with my "bobwhites" today. They attacked the coturnix they hatched out with and killed one a month ago. At the time I thought it was maybe the banty faverolle mixes I had in the pen and seperated them out and thought that was the end of it. This morning I put my Texas AMs and my...
Well I went out to check the girls and boys and much to my surprise in the nest box was one of my gold manchurian quail hens. And she was chirping away with that soft call of theirs. I looked closer not expecting anything and she got up and out the nestbox and there was the tinest egg. It was...
I bought 5 araucana bantams and recieved a free cockerel and now as of this morning our farm owns 9. Three babies are now growing in my brooder. One that looks like a possible red pyle, a tannish one that might be gold duckwing and this morning a blue baby.
I was concerned Indigo my only blue...
If anyone around the Castroville, Hondo, San Antonio area I have over 60+ quail chicks (and more hatching) for sale! This is the last batch for ebay eggs for a while as I wait to see if my birds start laying soon. They range from:
Jumbo:
Regular coturnix: $1.25 ea
Texas AM: $1.25 ea
Tibetian...
I was supposed to have a deal with a local rabbitry for me to sell their rabbits on commission. The guy tried it one day and then stopped setting up at my shop. I called him a couple days later telling him I had people asking about his rabbits wanting to buy them. His wife said she would relay...
Is there a way to tell these two apart as goslings? I have been looking at photos of goslings recently and realized how similar they look. I may have sold off some brown chinese as Africans when I was buying hatchery assortments and hoping to avoid this in the future.
After wanting muscovies for a long time I finally sent for them. I got 15 coming in from JM Hatchery. I plan on butchering the extra males since I really didn't want to order 15 ducklings but that is the only option you get with JM and I really want muscovies.
SO I have a couple questions...