Two New Does: American Blue
The American Blue rabbit is another breed that is on the livestock conservancy’s endangered list. They are a great multipurpose meat and fur breed. I managed to get two of […]
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Bunnies!!!
Yesterday, my stupid Crackhead dogs managed to topple over a stack of empty rabbit cages, and knick over a barricade to eat every. Single. Pheasant. Chick. I am so upset […]
Pheasant Chicks Arrived
Just in case my eggs don’t hatch, I ordered a backup set of 25 chicks. They arrived safe and sound two days after hatching. They are now in my brooder, […]
Three Sows to the Breeding Pen
Today I moved three sows to the breeding pen. Two from Raspberry’s February litter, and another white pig that is around 9 weeks old. All of these piggies are above […]
Introducing Huey, Duey, and Louey
It is oppressively humid tonight, and I can see lighting flashing across the Western sky. Anyways, I wax poetic from time to time, but things are humming along on the […]
Five for Cinnamon
Cinnamon wound up with a litter of five Guinea pig babies today! I can’t believe it. This morning, before my cattle herding seminar, I saw she had delivered two, but […]
Two Black Babies for Peaches
Well, Peaches ended up having little piggies sooner than I anticipated. She didn’t look super pregnant. But this evening, I found two new babies that I hadn’t seen before running […]
Amethyst’s First Litter
Well, when they have babies in the back box, it is always difficult to tell exactly how many they have, considering there are like, 500 babies running around. But, I […]
And Again… Magician Delivers 9
A productive rabbitry is very important to stay viable. I have a lot of demand for raw fed rabbits, and therefore, more kits means I can sell rabbits on demand. […]
Rough Week for Producing
I was practicing herding with my dog, and all of a sudden, one of my female ducks lets out a horrible squack, and blood starts pouring out of her leg. […]
Creme had Babies
Late in the night on 4/26, Creme had a healthy litter of three new babies. I pulled her inside to the old nursery, because it was chill, and I didn’t […]
Pheasant and Chukar Eggs
I put 80 eggs into the Styrofoam incubator, and 30 eggs into my cooler incubator. 50% ring neck pheasant, and 50% chukar partridge. The bobwhite quail eggs were candled, and […]
Pebbles had a baby
I found a mostly white baby with a splash of color around both eyes in the front box this morning. I believe it belongs to Pebbles.
Nine Kits for Syren
Syren hadn’t had kits since last December. So, this was her last shot to produce for me, as I have many more solid producers that I can keep. She did […]
Cookie Had Babies
After four miscarriages, Cookie finally carried a group of babies to term, and birthed them. There were four kits total (born 4/24), but one was dead. Two of them are […]
Eight Kits for Sorceress
After her disastrous loss of all her kits a little over a month ago, Sorceress had eight healthy kits in her new nestbox on 4/29. At least one of them […]
Ruby has Babies
Last October, Pebbles and Ron had a little girl, Ruby. And on 4/20/15, she had her first litter of two baby pigs. She is doing very well. They are both […]
Fyre had bunny babies
Fyre delivered nine babies on Friday, April 24. Sadly, I interrupted her, and she lost one of them because she didn’t clean off the nose of the baby. But eight […]
Bobwhite Quail Eggs in Incubation
After experiencing success with free range ducks, and a successful coturnix quail hatch, I decided to get back into the game bird business. I installed my quail rails into my […]
Pop had Babies
For her second litter, little Miss Pop, daughter of Cassius and Brutus, had a litter if three tiny, black, orange and white babies. This guy broke out of the nursery […]
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