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Life is always busy for me through June but this June I ended up with 2 bits of news that pretty much ate July too ... My husband was accepted to a program he wasn't sure he was getting into so he's going back to school in the fall - given the location of the school we are moving to our...

i'm getting my performance poultry order ready - if anybody wants any silkie chicks let me know I'd love order a mix of colours but at a minimum of 4 of each colour I can't go too crazy! may be ordering others as well ...

meat chicks are thriving went off in search of a contact for laying hens and ended up with 3 scraggly looking girls who have all ready laid an egg hay was cut today which always makes me happy rabbits are settled and enjoyng life foster puppy is the best puppy ever the new parrot is...

'tis the time of year when I put the energy out there that if laying chickens need a home I'd be happy to take them in... I'm in southern Ontario and the chickens lead a pretty mellow life with us -in a large pen when I'm not around and free ranging if they like it when I am .. the 5 hens...

Niobe has settled down very nicely now that he is a)neutered and b0 has a harem to call his own but the role of escape artist can't go unfilled for long around here- the talented little Teagen (spayed JW) spent many days roaming the basement til I got fed up and seperated her and the Mrs...

Oh boy - thanks for the help with deciding when to get the chicks ... turns out the place I was planning to order from (local hatchery with an EXCELLENT reputation) is not hatching meat chicks this year! DRATS and figures .. anybody ordered from Frey's? They deliver to my local feed store .. or...

I had Hermonie (the little 12 wo female black and white angora mix) with a hedgehog and a parrot today - all were too curious about each other and simply adorable :)

It's FREEZING outside so I'm sitting by the woodstove planning happily for warmer days chicken plans include 2-3 layers for the summer - may the fates conspire to make that work as well as it has the last 2 summers (with a LOT of help from my friends - you know who you are ;)) and Tom really...

So what colours are allowed in angoras? I should look it up (and will) but thought this might be good for everybody - I have a broken(?) grey and white doe who has just had a number of broken popples ... :? you all know me and colours and genetics for rabbits ;)

Yup I've got me a new doe - been watching her at the shelter for a month or so waiting to move a big lovely nwz into a home to make room for her. Godness knows what she is - she's grey with a white blaze down her face and a head that looks like no rabbbit I've seen - given most of the rabbits...

if you would be willing to do me a HUGE favour (and the rescue I work most closely with) and vote for Sally http://wildfireapp.com/website/6/contes ... es/9035769 in a global contest we could win a year of food - I doubt we could win a car but that would be even neater. Any votes or spreading...

If you were going to keep 3 hens over the winter (in a place chickens weren't really allowed - lets say just for fun) in a place that has snow and can get fairly cold at times but usually isn't too bad how big a space would you give them? do you have to heat it? would they just stay...

so I go out to put the herd away for the night and let Puff stretch his legs little Q-Tip is nowhere to be found .. there is no hole dug - no obvious gaps in the fencing ..where the heck is s/he*? I check around the perimeter of the yard - nothing ... think hmmmm let out Puff and start...

It's so nice to hear chickens yakking again .. these are BEAUTIFUL girls - Buckeyes and while they aren't happy to be in the coop still they are adjusting well - all my other chickens have been a bit flighty by comparision to these girls - they are obviously well handled and used to a life...

the rabbits are enjoying life in the east very much they have a 10 X 20 run with grass (for now) and there are 3 hutches and one large dog crate in the space one hutch has Puff Daddy - the LARGE angora another has Munch (once he goes to his home Popple will take over there) one hutch has...

do we have any? is all vetch related? is it all rabbit safe? the wonderful folks who lived in our place before we bought it planted Crown Vetch - which looks very much like what I know as field vetch though the flowers are a darker purple - it is INVASIVE - holey moley but if I could feed it...

ok - my goal had been to get broilers in early july and send them to camp at end of august - I know they wouldn't be big but hoped they'd be big enough as I made more inquiries I have been offered some broilers (red) now I know theory about chicks and have brooded some for a couple of weeks...

3 of what you tell me are black silver martins (I sure cant tell em apart) and 1 not white not grey popple ... it's whitish but greyer than Popple was at the same age (2 weeks) and whiter than Dustbunny (chin or some other grey term I haven't learned yet) - what the hoot is this one going to...

Mr Franklin is loving it dandilions (minute quantities but he loves the flowers) canes from berry bushes baby plantain wee clovers maple and apple leaves oh what a happy bunny the rest are starting up too but he gets the full range first :)

Niobe did manage to get both Daisy and Joy pregnant in his last great escape - he was neutered that week but I suspcted he might have managed the deed Daisy had two kits on the floor of the basement - both were a great size and perfectly marked (lovely little brokens) but both were dead by the...