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Thank you!

That might work for me, with a long enough handle ☺️

Ok…I just started my warm farm using the 3 drawers. However, I am phobic. The idea of touching them does terrible things to me, but I am determined to be successful at this. So…what do you use to sift the worms out to feed to your flock?

Livestock Guardian Dogs are not usually dependable until they are mature at around 2. They, like any other puppy will play with chickens and accidentally kill them. Plus not all of them make good poultry dogs. They don’t form a bond with birds like they do with livestock but they do learn to...

I've had 8 ducks in the backyard for over a year. This year, all 6 hens were setting on eggs in various hiding places. One morning we found 2 hens on the lawn, dead, that had been fine the day before. Now we have found 2 hens dead on their nests! The drakes are both alive and the other two hens...

We are in Oregon and have ordered frm McMurray's a lot, always been happy with them. Lose very few chicks and what we do lose, they credit us.

It is a working cattle ranch, and everything is done the old fashioned way, on horseback and branding is done out on the range, and a lot of the veternary work has to be done, by roping the cattle head and heels and stretching them so they can be doctored, miles from headquarters. There have...

thanks! Yeah, it's pretty crazy to think about how big this place really is. As far as we can see in any direction, it's still the same ranch. Our closest neighbors, outside of the other ranchhands and the family here, are over 20 miles away. It's 4 hours to where we go grocery shopping so we...

oh wow! I think we might actually have one of those for the chickens…I always hated it because it kept coming off of the base. I'll have him look, that would be a perfect solution, thank you, Goin Quackers!!

I have 3 Khaki Cambells, 2 Ruens and an Indian Runner, plus an Indian Runner Drake that thinks he is quite the man about town. I got them as ducklings in early April so maybe they won't then. I'll let TheMan know how tricky they are and hopefully ill look hard now and then. Thanks for all the...

that is good to know that they often lay that early. I'll see if I can get him to dig around in the straw and see if they are hiding them there…the drake is really..er…active and the hens are always squatting for him…or maybe they are just cringing. He's not much of a gent. Thanks for the...

I have Maremma Livestock Guardians. They watch over our lambs, calves and free range poultry. I do lock the birds up at night so the dogs can concentrate more on guarding and patrolling against the cougars, coyotes and other predators that try to sneak past their perimeter and not have to worry...

thanks Miss Lydia. I was only thinking of something for them to drink out of…but I suppose they could go without until I let them out in the morning then…does anyone else lock their ducks in at night so they can make sure they lay their eggs in their shed? Mine aren't laying yet….or at least we...

It will be freezing pretty soon and obviously my little pool is going to be frozen, so no point in filling it for them. What do you use for waterers for your ducks in the winter? I know they are supposed to be able to stick their heads in but I need something that isn't going to make a mess in...

Both Maremmas and Pyrs are considered 'soft' LGD's meaning they have the least amount of human aggression. I have a pair of Maremmas that show extreme discretion when people visit. We have strangers and strange dogs visit the ranch frequently and our dogs have set the front of the house as...

My BBW is obviously not going to fit in our killing cone that we use for our CornishX. I am HOPING he will fit in my roaster pan! How do you all kill and butcher your turkeys? WIll they fit in the whizbang ok? ~nervous in Oregon!

We have a 4 1/2 month old WBB but I don't think he will fit in the turkey fryer pot to scald him so we can pluck him. What do all of you use to scald these really big birds???

My Maremmas are great with our house dogs, in fact, the front of our place is 'neutral territory' as there are a lot of bird hunters who come here to the ranch with their dogs. The Maremmas have amazing discretion and don't harrass any animals unless they try to get in the pastures with the...

I would love to get a Berner as my companion and service dog, but I don't think I could cope with the short lifespan, particularly at the high prices they command. Heartbreak AND financial stress make a formidable pair!

I ordered 55 birds from McMurray this year. Of 20 rangers that came, 3 died the first 24 hours. of the 30 CornishX I have not lost ANY! I'm really amazed. The 5 Jersey Giants and the little something they threw in look good as well. It's been almost 3 weeks and haven't lost any other chicks. I'm...