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Rabbits ready for a car ride!
Pedigreed English Angoras. All are extremely friendly, would make great pets, great woolers, or great breeders. I have a blue tort doe out of Spaz and Kylo, a broken black tort and a lilac tort out of Indie and Kylo. lOO for the boys, l5O for girl, l5O for both boys as a pair with pedigrees, or l75 pet 200 with pedigree for a doe and buck pair.
Please share and help these beautiful little ones find their home!!!! ❤️❤️❤️
Barry Lamilow only joined our little homestead Sunday. He's such a sweet little fellow!
Traded him, plus some quail and for a new flock of chickens in the spring, for three angoras this Sunday. It was a long drive, and I learned a ton getting the bunnies evaluated too. He also is like our steer, just here to finish on grain.. And be spoiled rotten in the meantime, haha.
Winslow, our steer.
He's currently here finishing out on grain, he was raised on pasture just a town over. We all love this boy very much, even with the challenges cattle bring.. I am excited to have a freezer full of locally raised beef. Specially knowing his days in the finishing lot are so pleasant, he loves apple's and is getting spoiled rotten, hahaha...
Indie and Spaz litter is growing up fast! They are so beautiful!!
The broken black tort buck is available and will be ready to go next weekend. I may also possible have a girl or two, or possibly an extra buck next week. Going up Sunday for evaluations and then I'll know who is available.
Life has been a little turbulent on the homestead, by things are back to being on the right track!
We discovered myco in our chickens and decided to move them off the homestead before the ducks became ill.... It was an extremely difficult choice to make. The right choice for our other animals safety but sad still... Thankfully our girls all went to a different farm, they'll be egg layers and pets, that farm has a myco positive flock, they are fully closed and have everything my girls would ever need living with a chronic repository disease. I am extremely grateful for that person and her care and help....... I know many said most back yard flocks are positive with myco and it doesn't matter, but, it matters to me. I lost many pets, loved birds, even with quick antibiotic care, because of someone else having that exact mindset of it doesn't matter. I wont do harm onto others knowingly.. So to preserve the work I've done with my duck flock, quick action was taken with the chickens. One day we will rebuild our laying flock, but we will no longer breed and sell chickens though because this loss was to great on me. My new goals will really only to have pet birds they lay breakfast for us.
We also traded Peanut and Cashew, for a steer named Winslow. His introduction post will be coming this week! I decided to focus more on the mini side of pig breeding, and will be working on a faster growing but still mini, easy on pasture, red meat cross.. We brought home a new mini gilt named Edna to help with these goals. Her introduction post will be coming this week too!
Lastly. We choose to process Gertie this last weekend. Another who will be missed greatly. She began breaking the gate to attack Moto and Kevin, I had fixed it, but with determination, she'd find a way, every couple days she'd try to jump the gate, she was already almost big enough to get over, again with determination, she would eventually get in by my other animals.... She was also attacking the steer through that gate, it was upsetting him greatly, the rain collection system is near the gate, it's Winslow's water, so there was no really way around that issue either....... We will be adding a new member next weekend too, who could end up injured as well if Gertie finally broke or got over that gate. She was also killing chickens and biting people. I have chronic back issues, and have fallen and struggled to get up in the past. With iccy weather around the corner. I have to water pigs and have to be in the pen alone with her..... We as a family decided the risk was no longer worth it. We harvested her at 180 pounds instead of the hopefully goal around 300... I will never know why she turned so awful, but I can't keep dangerous animals here.
Here is my beautiful girl Peppy!
These babies are definitely the stars on the homestead! How cute are they!!!
Two does are pending from Spazs litter.
New ducks.
Coco, Toffee, and Nougat, the chocolates. Still haven't named the black magpie, blue magpie, or solid blue. Dewey and Webster the Pekin drakes.
Zombie chicks!
Ugh. It's hard trying to tell myself these will be the last chicks of 2023!!
I also added 5 new muscovy ducklings and a one muscovy hen..
The hen is a beautiful chocolate girl named Cocoa, and the two drakes I got with her are Toffee the chocolate drake and Nougat a chocolate barred unknown if it's a drake or hen. The other three are still unnamed, two I am pretty sure are hens the black bibbed and the solid blue are for sure hens, the blue and white might be a drake... Hopefully now they have a large group they do well. I lost the last drake I bought because he was by himself and got cold...
I also traded an extra ancona hen names Jimmies for two drakes. I only wanted one but bought two figuring one was a drake. Nope got lucky with two hens. She is a great duck though, just not an extra I wanted to bring through winter. She was my last to be rehomed too. I traded her for two large Pekin drakes that were being to rough on their hens and beating up a drake that should of been breeding to those, earning themselves a very inappropriate nick name...... They will butchered and fill our freezers, no farm has room for jerks... They do have names, Dewy and Webby(Webster), my back is to awful atm to butcher. So they'll be living in luxury, eating it up getting nice and fat in a nice boys only pen.. They will be spoiled here like all the rest though. They will probably be Yule dinner.
Hello Peanut and Cashew.
Peanut is the brown bigger pig, and Cashew is white with black spots.
Mangalitsa Idaho pasture pig crosses brought home Sunday. I injured my back again so haven't gotten around to posting them. Hopefully Peanut will check all the boxes for being a breeder sow. Cashew is a feeder pig, and will be for sale.
If you are going to be this person, unfollow and unlike my page.
I have no tolerance for this, I will block you. This world is so full of hatred, anger, and negativity. If you look hard enough everyone will find something they don't like. Someone may be extremely passionate about that. I don't like watching golf on TV, so instead of putting it on and complaining about it, I simply, change the channel!!! Hahaha. All of us have to learn, it's ok to change the channel. If you don't like homesteading, seeing death and the processing of animals. Unlike, unfollow, or scroll on...... It's ok, I won't be mad. Lol.
I know many don't eat meat, and that's ok. That's your personal choice, I won't go on your page and angry react your salad posts.... We do eat meat here.... It's for our own personal dietary needs for our family.... While I've never been vegan or vegetarian, I feed someone who was. Was. Because of dietary needs.... Like you may have to be vegan or vegetarian for your own dietary needs.... It's important to live healthfully, as we see it.... I have never liked large animal containment farming either, raising my own meat has been something I've been extremely passionate about, as is hunting...... I get sick off of processed foods, and have allergies to certain dyes, certain seed oils, and certain artificial ingredients.. I have the gut system of a caveman and it's been difficult living in a very modern artificial world...... We both have been extremely ill because of our dietary needs..... So yes, we do things differently then many... Yes, that includes having our hands in the dirt to raise crops and yes, butchering our own very much loved animals. One day I will go further in explaining my views on life and death, for now. I'll leave you to enjoy the harvest moon tonight....... Please remember to try to find peace....... It's not always easy.
Due to Karen having some sort of medical emergency the day after arrival I put of posting their introduction.
They are mini mangas, mangalitsa and kunekune crosses. Kevin Bacon is a feeder pig I am raising up to spilt with someone else. Omg, he is the sweetest boy though! Karen was supposed to replace Gertie after I decided she wasn't what I want to breed on my homestead, since already at 40 pounds I no longer trust my children in the pen with her, she also hasn't blended into the herd without causing injury, and she also can not share the pasture with the chickens and ducks unlike all the rest of my pigs, because she is a chicken killer..... So she will be a feeder, it has been decided. We adore Moto though, and he will need a mate, because it's pointless to own a boar without planning to breed, why we brought on Karen and Kevin...... Sadly, Karen is having health issues, she is unable to walk, and it's unknown as to why.... A sow can not be bred if she can not stand. So now both will be feeders.... Kevin will be raised until next fall, Karen will be raised until her heath difficulties start to effect her quality of life. Gertie will also be raised until her behaviors start to effect my quality of life, lol.
Another English angora litter.
These are from my broken chocolate momma, Indie........ She isn't a good momma, out of 4 litters I've only gotten one live from her, and that with a lot of work, helping her feed them and helping her build a nest for them, her first and third litters she actively killed....... These were more like her last litter, they were frozen, covered in afterbirth and p*e, and a couple have bite marks, if I gave them back to her, she would probably stomp them. So I gave them Spaz, first times I've ever fostered so hopefully Spaz does good.... These seem a little premature so they'll keep fighting. She did lose two already, but 6 are still with us. Hopefully that little one that looks like a broken blue is a girl....
Babies. Finally!!
These are english angoras, can be pedigreed..... Doe is Spaz and dad is Kylo
Gertie needed a new buddy. So we got her Moto, he is a kunekune cross. He is soo sweet!!
The new hatchlings!
Hatch day is one of my favorite days.
Little silkie fresh out!
All have found their home!
Look at all these cuties, they'd all love to go for a car ride!!!
More info under each photo.... I am open to bundle prices......
Also open to trade or partial trade, for anything really but looking for a doe goat, feeder pig, or a muscovy drake.......... Not looking for a feeder pig really anymore, I found Gertie a buddy to be raised with, but still open to options.... For goats looking for smaller breeds, either babies or possibly pregnant does, would consider bucklings too though..... Obviously both large critter trades would be partial trades...... For the muscovy drake I was hoping for solid black, but also open to other colors... Also would trade for hatching eggs, looking for silkies, welsummers and marans, but again super open other options!!! ----- I have even traded a rooster for a few jars of maple syrup, lol!! Never hurts to ask!!
Gertie!!!!!!.❤️❤️❤️❤️
Oh for duck sake......... Hahahaha!!!!
Two available roosters.
A black showgirl silkie, and a frizzle silkie.
They'd make lovely pet pair!
Last set of chicks I hatched are doing well!
I do have one available from this batch, and have chicks hatching Friday too.
Welcome home baby Gertie!
Gertrude is a mangalitsa, Idaho pasture pig, and red wattle cross. She is a pasture and woodlands pig.. She will get her pig ration of course, but she will also be eating graze in the pasture, as well as accorns and whatever the woods has to offer too... She'll also get scraps from our house hold, and food waste too from anywhere we can find it..... ....... And marshmallows... Lots of marshmallows because they are her favorite, lol..... She does have a processing date planned next spring when she's 8 to 10 months old... Best way to produce plant based bacon, hahaha..... The breeds we choose, are slower growing but are more flavorful and healthier. Mangalitsa is a red meat pig too, we plan to jar the lard as well...... We are also planning on adding Kunekune for the same reasons..... Since it's our first pig, we choose to go with a gilt, the runt gilt..... Just in case that processing date never happens hahahaha! We could of went with her brothers, there were a few much larger a barrows, a castrated males, but there was some worry we'd fall in love, and couldn't process him and, I don't want a 600-800 pound pasture ornament! Lol!! So, just in case she stays, she can still earn her keep as a breeder instead. No matter which life plan we end up on, she will be loved all the same!
Hello! It's been a very long time!!!
Lots have changed! We have moved! Dreams do come true after all, and new dreams are made daily too! I am excited to start my page back up again and to be able to share my journey with you again!
Lots will be going on here shortly, a name change was definitely needed first.... We have taken a pause on breeding pocket pets for now, sorry if you are only here for rat content, we may choose to start the pocket pet project up again, however it may not be for a few years..... Our focus is on poultry and rabbits currently, but more getting added soon and a better garden is being planned out for new year as well... Lots of lots of other projects are underway too!!!
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