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Yes, if you want entertainment, get some geese!!! They're hilarious to watch and they talk back. :)

Ha! Yep. We were up late last Friday night after a football game (my husband is a coach) and so our outside lights were on way later than normal. Subsequently, the roosters were going off all the way until about 1:30am. Ugh! The new barn is being built across the pasture, but their temporary...

Hi Lady! Molting was the start of my woes, but right about the same time they started molting, I also culled all of my older layers. So, I am literally starting fresh this fall with all just barely at or past POL pullets. My hope is that, once they get cranked up, I'll have eggs all winter...

Welcome! You're not too terribly far from me. :) Lots of breeds work well for our area. If you are mainly just looking for a few (brown) eggs, barred rocks are great. (Probably the most steady and longest lasting layers of e various breeds I've personally owned.) But you're asking a crowd...

I can't use lights at night. Their pen is currently located right behind our house (literally on the other side of the wall from my master bedroom), and if I leave lights on outside then my blasted roosters CROW ALL NIGHT LONG. I've chosen sleep over eggs... But I have gotten 2 eggs per day...

Ha! Mine has been threatening the same thing!!! But it is totally driving me nuts!!!!!!!!!

Hmph - my EEs are 29 weeks old and I haven't gotten a single egg from any of them yet. (I have 12 EE pullets...) Yes, 29 whole weeks and no colored eggs. My husband is convinced they're defective. To be fair my whole flock has been on strike for the last month though... A couple of my other...

We have tons of black widows too. So much so that, if you flip something over outside and there ISN'T one there, it is a little surprising. It is starting to get better since we've had to fight them so hard with pesticides. (Which I would rather not do, but you gotta do what you gotta do -...

Okay, I'm on my phone, so I don't think I can do the quote inside a quote thing, but I'll try to see if I can snap a pic of my mama goat chauffeur. Now, watch - as you all know, once you promise a pic of something cute that your animals and/or kids do regularly, they never do it again....

Ooohh - I've never heard of those, but just looked it up. VERY pretty and it does sound a lot like ours. Very cool! You gotta love a big, intimidating, hard-working dog!

We have a boerboel (south African version of a mastiff) that behaves a lot like you describe here. The breed is not touted as a livestock guardian breed, but rather as the "most protective, non aggressive" guardian of the homestead breed. We live terribly far out in the country and needed a...

I have a mama goat who routinely provides chauffeur services to the younger birds. They just hop on her back and she strolls around the pasture with them on there. It is the darnedest thing you ever saw.

Yes!!! I like to say that I live in Texas for a reason. Give me hot summers any day. I dislike the cold. And anything under 78 degrees is cold in my book...

If this is true, then what the heck is the point of it all? Why spend that time and effort in a bird just to show it off, then discard it afterwards. That makes absolutely NO sense to me. Isn't the bird you take to a show supposed to be the best specimen you have on hand? Why discard it...

Great name! Our Jersey Giant roo's name is Reuben. Any John Wayne fan will know that Reuben is Rooster Cogburn's real first name. :) And our Cream Legbar roo's name is Russell, as in Crowe. So cheesy, right?

Mandy, LOVE THAT, but my husband has one to add: A fence post driver will win all head butting contests.

Thermometer in the brooder - ha! DH built our first brooder (and all subsequent upgrades) before I did much "research" on here. It was a wooden frame with all 4 walls and the top made out of hardware cloth. Only much later did I read that they aren't supposed to have any drafts.... That...

Still TBD. The poor thing has progressed from being put in a dog kennel across the pasture to a crate inside our shop. We let him run around the shop for awhile, and he is very well behaved. Mostly he just sat by my DH, very calmly, wanting to be petted and shake hands. If no attention was...

No - I didn't take a full body. It may be the shadows on his face from the fence, but in person there is no doubt he's a lab. He's actually a really pretty boy. His brown hair has a golden shimmer to it. And he likes to shake your hand. Ugh! No, no, no - I will not think about him being sweet...

Funny timing with all this talk about stray dogs and rescues. We had a stray chocolate lab show up at our house today. He has a collar, but no tags. Is a very sweet dog, but he's either been missing for a long time or his previous owner didn't take very good care of him. He had a length of...