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Three new Nigerian Dwarf kids entered the world 4/27/16! Two girls and a boy. All have their father's awesome blue eyes. Plus huge milking potential. I can't wait to milk their dam, she did great last year with one kid, this year should be even better!

Huh, I just won a $100 off a Garden Tower II (I signed up trying to win an actual unit, hah). Alas, even being $259 (the cost with the discount), plus $40 shipping, still a bit too much for me to want one. If anyone wants to use it, the discount it is linked to my email, but we can still...

The rooster will crow ;)

I think the duck eggs make baked goods so much richer (due to the big yolks!), that is for sure. I haven't done too much baking recently though, aside from cookies for work. I recently found a recipe called Featherlight Sponge Cake (recipe came from a book called A Little Book of Scottish...

My Magpie ducks provide oodles of duck eggs for people who want to purchase them for eating. I have seven girls, and they each give me an egg a day. Sometimes we have to come up with creative ways to use all the eggs if they're not selling quick enough!

I raise a lot of ducklings each year using the dumor 24% and then later 20% as they get old. Not a one has had a leg issue, and none have gotten supplemental niacin, either. Perhaps I am lucky, but they're sound birds.

Today has been an awful week. I've got someone to watch my flock and herd while I make an unexpected trip to MN. My uncle passed away suddenly. My boyfriend's family is also mourning a loss. One of my two honeybee hives perished as well, they starved despite my feeding them. I am setting some...

Because EEs are a mixed breed they can lay a range of colors. Many do carry the allele for blue egg shells (it is dominant). Eggs often will be shades blue or green, green occurs when a blue shelled egg has brown pigment. If they are layers of white shelled eggs, the eggs will be in the tan or...

Alas, the birds your feed store calls Araucana are not Araucana. They are Easter Eggers. Just giving you a heads up! No commercial hatchery sells purebred Araucana.

Thanks! It is so much fun to make, like cooking, but with lye rather than an oven. I will actually be near Grand Rapids a week before Chickenstock (I'm going to a wedding!). But I don't have enough PTO to extend that to another week, so alas, I must miss out.

Finally my hens are providing me eggs again! It was a long wait, so glad to have fresh, better tasting eggs from my girls. I made some goat's milk soap last night! A salt soap. What is a salt soap? Basically for each pound of soap, it gets 0.5 to 1lb of salt added. The only oil in it is...

That is awesome! And with all being heifers, that is even better! No worries about them being freemartins!

I haven't seen a mouse since I installed a barn cat last summer. She is amazing.

Oh piglets, fun! I am going to be getting a pigger barrow to raise up for the freezer, too, an Idaho Pasture Pig. Apparently a breed that does a lot of grazing and not much rooting because of their upturned snouts. Mine will be trained to a portable electric fence so I can move around to fresh...

All she needs is a fieldtrip to a farm with young baby goats around, and the bossman will likely give in to his wife, hah. All them tiny snuggly kissyfaced baby goats are irresistible! Can you tell I'm excited for kidding time? First doe is due April 22nd :D

I'm trying Good Mother Stallard pole beans this year. I don't know much about them personally, since I've never read them. But they're pretty and supposed to taste good. I'm doing some Three Sisters planting this year. It requires sturdy heirloom corn (a lot of modern corns are too weak) to...

This is the first year I've had trouble with the cold, personally. It isn't even as cold as last year! I feel like I can't get warm most of the time. As a kid I never remember being cold. My parents had to make my sister and I come in for a warm up after hours of playing outside. So strange...

I know if I bring my goats warm water to drink they are in heaven. I don't do it everyday, because they still drink the cold water, but it sure helps increase water consumption when it is warm. If I bring warm water to the poultry, the ducks bath in it. But the ducks bath in every open body of...

One a year I worm my chickens and ducks with Valbazen, 0.5 mL per bird right down the beak. Is it just me, or do animals know when something is up? They must be able to read body language. I'm not just there to feed/water/bring meat scrap treats. No, I have a purpose, hah. A normally docile...

How close are you to da UP? I know an Emu keeper. The first egg of the year was just laid. He won't be incubating them quite yet, though.