Recent content by andalusn

I have a small Cream Legbar group that has integrated to a small group of red hens & a grey hen. Not really paying attention to the colors of last weekends hatch I now wonder if the lighter red peeps are sex links. I know which ones are the purebred Cream Legbar peeps. Thinking the pale reds...

Are you currently offering black silkie hatching eggs? Possibly a dozen or so eggs?

It's been a long time since I set eggs. Any local store with peeps is selling out each shipment the first day. A friend expressed wanting a few Cream Legbars. Having discovered a small pile I gathered up the mix of Cream Legbar and Reds ( I only have a Cream Legbar rooster) I set them in...

Wow! My candy Easter egg Whoppers get a little fart egg in the box :)

I tend to agree that you should plan them and see. If you really need to talk to someone try your local extension office and ask for the Master Gardener person or their phone number.

It will be lamb wrangling today :) tagging and finding a good one for a young friends 4H project. Thinking this nice ewe lamb will be a keeper to the flock. These are hair sheep. They don't have usable wool. They shed thier coat each spring.

If outside on pasture sheep are the better grazer. Goats are more of a brusher. Inside the barn the trick is the style of feeder. They pull the feed out. Most of what falls to the ground will be soiled and they won't eat it. We have feeders that are a V shape frame on top with the sides of...

A Lamb and her dog

I like roosters. I like having roosters in the flock. After the great chicken loss of 2017 I don't currently have any large roosters. When my flock was at its largest, 35 + birds I had two roosters and they did a nice job of supervising their collective group. Everybody free ranged together...

The small dog breed of my heart is Schipperkes. When they passed I knew I needed a larger breed on the farm but was undecided. A friend breeds Rough Collies and Gunner joined the family a number of years ago. I have sheep and needed a partner with an "off" switch. Gunner is a beautiful Blue...

Over the past number of years I’ve had about 45 chickens running around. No predictor issues for years. I was hit with a trifecta over a year ago with 2 female raccoons that moved into the barn and had kits, new home builder cleared brush and displaced his coyote pack and a Bald Eagle hit me and...

I am looking for pickled eggs recipes. Do you prefer them sweet or sour? I see some online that are made with beet juice too.. I have standard size eggs to pickle but was wondering if anyone has tried to pickled the smaller bantam or Serama eggs?