> We lost another chicken to a similar death as the first.  So we left the chickens in the coop for the day and actually trapped the predator! Is this the only possum or are there more hanging around the coop? We think that there may be more possums looking for a good chicken dinner. […]
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Ginger’s Baby Girl Spiffy’s Boy #1 Spiffy’s Boy #2 Each year we reconsider whether we should be raising goats for milk. And then the babies are born, and they are ever so cute, so we keep doing this year after year. Just today, Ginger’s girl was trying to nurse on our guard dog, Harvey, and it was […]
It has been a long time since we have lost one of our layers to predators. As our neighbor says, “Everything loves chicken!â€.   We were losing around 30 chickens a year to bobcats, coyotes, coons, possums, and weasels. What makes us so stubborn that we don’t just buy eggs rather than trying to raise our own?    Every […]
We completed building an equipment barn Spring of 2004 and once the barn was completed, we thought; “Finally! We now have a “location†for everything including those little nuts and bolts, hoes and shovels, soil mix and irrigation partsâ€; however, that didn’t prove true. We had a barn for dry storage and equipment, but every […]