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    Jest Another Day in Pear-A-Dice - Higgins Rat Ranch Conservation Farm in Alberta

    Heel low: Exciting to start lambing. Our one of three US imported rams, Laxus, is officially a Daddy! Please welcome; RatRanch Nebula 6N who is a 7.5# four horn ram lamb by Hall Creek Laxus (JSBA E082-23) & OKeefe Ranch Lucija. Born yesterday (June 25, 2025) without complications...Mom &...
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    Chantecler Thread!

    Potentially, I guess...it is a good thing he never sired any birds. :( Good plans to get some chicks. Thankful you are able to do that! Yes, it would be ever so quiet and in our books, a flock is not a FLOCK without a proud (and often), quite LOUD male. The boys are the real eye candy...
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    Chantecler Thread!

    Counted last night & we have fifteen spares in the roo pen. One of the things I expect is that the boys all get along; otherwise, yes, we too cannot keep a rangy tangy roo a doo. When not set up for breeding pens, we keep the females in mobs without males & sell the eggs for...
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    Chantecler Thread!

    As I wrote to you in July, in the males best to keep "the heir, spare and buddy." Could be any reason for one male not to live. I hope you find another boy and decide to hatch some chicks. Doggone & Chicken UP! Tara Lee Higgins Higgins Rat Ranch Conservation Farm, Alberta, Canada -- ____(\...
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    Jest Another Day in Pear-A-Dice - Higgins Rat Ranch Conservation Farm in Alberta

    Heel low: Twice a year now, we go for feed. Healthy Herds has stolen my recipe I submitted and called it "poultry ration #10." So good enough, at least I know they won't lose it! Time again to top up the fud. The BIG Brahmas, had 100 grow outs last year...certainly know how to chow down the...
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    Jest Another Day in Pear-A-Dice - Higgins Rat Ranch Conservation Farm in Alberta

    Heel low: Brought five totes of poultry rations home (heavy ton a piece) and got them put by today in the ten bins. Mill uses my recipe and now calls it #10 ration. Works out to 17% protein and I am very pleased with how all the birds do on it. Hot dry day so good time to be doing this...
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    Chantecler Thread!

    Heel low: Yup...same up here in Central AB...heat (summer??). We've had so much welcomed rains this year...top up the aquifers and lessen the wild fire threats we keep seeming to be held hostage by. What I like is to do the regular de-parasite treatments now. Egg production is down. The...
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    Chantecler Thread!

    Heel low: Uh, best you keep the heir, spare and buddy. I keep at minimum three males (prefer even number of males to females--male is important to the flock/female is important to the chick). Your three males are best one for breeding, spare in case something happens to the best one, and a...
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    Jest Another Day in Pear-A-Dice - Higgins Rat Ranch Conservation Farm in Alberta

    Heel low: Set one batch of homegrowns in Buster the bator...now he's off and we are enjoying the babies. Brahma standards in Buff and Blue Buff (sired by Murray Mitchell's "43") and Chanteclers in white, blue dilution, partridge and red. Brahma standards in splash and Booted Bantams in...
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    Ended BYC's 15th Annual New Year's Day Hatch-Along—2024—Winter on the Farm Photo Contest

    Thank you. These are sports from our Lemon (Splash Buff Columbian) standard Brahmas. :-D
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    Jest Another Day in Pear-A-Dice - Higgins Rat Ranch Conservation Farm in Alberta

    Heel low: Entered the Winter Contest Series—Winter on the Farm Photo Contest. :-D Higgins Rat Ranch Standard Splash Brahmas. Doggone & Chicken UP! Tara Lee Higgins Higgins Rat Ranch Conservation Farm, Alberta, Canada -- ____(\ Tara Lee Higgins /)____ (_____~> Rat Ranch - An ACD is for...
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    Ended BYC's 15th Annual New Year's Day Hatch-Along—2024—Winter on the Farm Photo Contest

    Higgins Rat Ranch Standard Splash Brahmas.
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    Jest Another Day in Pear-A-Dice - Higgins Rat Ranch Conservation Farm in Alberta

    Heel low: Entered the 2024 Valentine's photo contest with four entries. :-D Higgins Rat Ranch Standard Partridge Chantecler. Higgins Rat Ranch Standard Blue Lace Red Wyandottes. Higgins Rat Ranch Standard Partridge Brahma pair; eating apple slices in the Great White North...
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    Ended 2024 Valentine's Day Contest Series—Cutest Couples Photo Contest—Poultry Edition

    Higgins Rat Ranch Standard Brahmas; Left is Partridge & Right is Blue Partridge.
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    Ended 2024 Valentine's Day Contest Series—Cutest Couples Photo Contest—Poultry Edition

    Higgins Rat Ranch Standard Partridge Brahma pair; eating apple slices in the Great White North.
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