Started out with over 70 but had to cull due to fowl Cholera.
Though they got last laugh, the bonfire we started yesterday to burn carcass had a spark jump and a grassfire started. No animals or important stuff harmed/damaged thankfully.
Welp the silver lining to this slaughter is mom open to restarting the Kraienkoppe project properly. Talking to my friend who begun it about if I should follow his course and do Malay or try Cubalaya.
Once we have proper pens
Mama was bred when we thought she wasn't, and welp no mothering instinct or proper fallow pen it's round two for me on hand rearing piglets. Unfortunately doesn't surprise me she got no mothering instincts because her mama tried to kill her piglets and us :rolleyes:
Silver lining dad gonna...
I don't miss the irony as someone converting to Judaism caring for piglets :rolleyes: but 4 girls, three boys all pretty interesting colours. 3/4 kune Kune
Sounds right man.
No eggs in incubator yet. Talking to parents and we're probably gonna recreate the Krainkoppe crosses because the hen carcasses were insanely meaty.
Never heard of Golden, we're more north in the piney belt so bit cooler (but same humidity). Land here is just cheaper and admittedly alot of the laws here are far more in favor of the farmer. Sometimes too much depending on the situation.
Eh, it's life and the only way to open people's minds is to be yourself and calm. It tells a person's character more on how they treat a stranger than someone they know.
I seen home depot and lowes having coops, not sure of the quality. Hoping this weekend to finish the hoop coop me and dad...
I'm religious but not Christian. Only woman in the whole town for a fact that wraps for religious reasons so that's fun. Got some stories from my experiences in the college town too :rolleyes:
Discord is my main social zone. However for local livestock news FB is where it's at, it how we learn a county over gonna have a ARBA rabbit show so gonna pop over for support and make contacts.
We barely know our neighbors but in this region of the US anything against the norm isn't trusted or flat out disliked. Finally met the only black family in this area community after 6 years, they helped establish the church across the street but we keep a eye on it for them because folks be...
Facebook is nice for niche communities, everything from religious to extremely rare chicken breeds almost always have a group. Though sometimes they can become very toxic and depressive *eyes her disability groups*.