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Wow! Usually I am much better at keeping things updated. But I have had a Lyme flare-up, and managed to drop a butcher cleaver on my foot, requiring stitches. I […]
Wow! Usually I am much better at keeping things updated. But I have had a Lyme flare-up, and managed to drop a butcher cleaver on my foot, requiring stitches. I […]
Nine little wiggling kits were born on mid day Sunday to Sorceress and Buckbeak. Lots of cute speckled babies, including hopefully, an orange one! They are nice and toasty warm […]
Here goes nothing! This is the the fourth installment of color genetics, starting with my other buck Buckbeak. I wanted to try and predict what color his kits will be […]
Looking only at Sorceress and Magician, both being bred to Buckbeak, what can I expect? (Not looking at the C and E gene for now, as that brings the possibile […]
Well, this will hopefully be the last installment in finding out what the genetics are found in Buckbeak. In the second post, where we looked at his offspring from Magician, […]
This is the second series trying to profile the color genetics of my rabbits. As I pointed out in Part 1, Magician and Buckbeak wound up with a broken yellow […]
Bring out the inner nerd! So, I am not one who cares much about coloration on my babies, so long as they are healthy and edible. Because of the complexities, […]
Fingers crossed that we get a real farm… and if we do, we are hoping that it will be near the Charlotte, NC metro area (the red star). This project […]
Well, I got an email from a fellow American Chinchilla breeder this morning. Their doe had a single kit on the wire, and they managed to keep it alive for […]
I decided to dive off the grid for a bit. Mostly because my computer has been in disrepair and posting from the phone is hard. I managed to get an […]
I have fallen head over heels in love with turkeys… I mentioned that in a couple of previous posts… So we got home from herding sheep with our new kitten, […]
It is good to know that even in this stifling heat and humidity, that my rabbit buck didn’t go sterile. I woke up this morning to a litter of 8 […]
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 […]
I came home last night from dinner with the family to find that Krinkle had popped out three babies on Friday the 13th. One of them was huge, and died […]
It won’t stop raining, and my backyard is a sinky, souplike substance. So, instead of getting my crops ready to put in the ground, I am perusing Craigslist. Craigslist was […]
This weekend, the temperature was in the 70s, and it was damp and raining. Last night, the windchill (a term nearly foreign to NC), was hovering at 0. Below freezing […]
I did some major shuffling of the homestead recently. I moved the pigs into a more shaded corner of the yard that stayed a bit drier. With this Pacific Northwest […]
Rabbits have a high mortality level as it is, but the first litters usually are much higher than most. Spytfyre pulled out a ton of fur, and the nest box […]
So, on Wednesday night, Bella and I went out to fertilize pumpkins and measure their heights. Some of the plants are over a foot tall, and others are only 3 […]
When I was first diagnosed as bipolar, my therapist recommended that I research bipolar individuals that I could use to prove to myself that those with bipolar can live long, […]