A New Flock.................... of Geese

The Gander and one of his Geese

  We had wanted to get some geese for awhile now. Searching on craigslist for deals but I wasn't having much luck.We were really looking for Embdens or pretty much anything besides Chinese or Africans. Our fox problems have been really bad this summer they where even taking chickens and turkeys in daylight. Our thinking was that getting some geese might deter them at the very least alert us to when they were around.

   I came across nine Africans for a reasonable price on craigslist. I asked some friends if they were interested in splitting them as only wanted four of them. they ended up being 7 females and two males. I kept a gander and three geese.Hopefully in the near future we will have some little goslings. We picked them up about ten days ago and (knock on wood)havn't  had any fox attacks during that time.

 Have a Great day

JU-JU-BEE BABY

Last week our Alpine doe JU-JU-BEE had her kid a big beautiful buckling. I love his markings they look very similar to his father Jasper. He is half Lamancha half Alpine. He is for sale if anyone is interested should make a great pet or herd sire. Can be fixed and will be disbudded.  Enjoy and have fun!!!!!

   

Pekins

     Last week I picked up three beautiful Pekin ducks to add to my flock of Pekins. I already had a pair of them that I picked up as ducklings in February. They turned out to be a pair. So when I picked up these three I was thrilled to find out they are three females. We are hoping to get some eggs from them in the next few months so we can hatch a batch before the weather gets to cold. In the meantime they look beautiful on our pond.

    We currently have Guinea hen, Bantam, and Standard chicken eggs in the incubator. If you are interested in any chicks contact us. We are hatching chicks about every two weeks. Our email is isaiahjjenkins@yahoo.com

A Rough Week

  A rough week here at the farm. We lost our Lamancha buckling who was going to be a herd stud this fall. The temperatures were in the hundreds for three days and then dropped down to seventy. I don't now if he suffered from heat stroke but he died all of the sudden. He may have eaten something poisonous but we have never had any problems with the pasture he has been in and he wasn't out of that pasture. The three other kids are fine. The pasture is heavily shaded mostly woods.

The same night we lost the buck, something managed to break into our chicken coop and carried off seven chickens. We had been losing the occasional chicken; some during the day we had thought it was a stray dog but now I am leaning towards a fox. Seeing how all that was left were feathers, the chickens were all carried off.

Okay on a more positive note our Narragansett turkey hatched seven poults. She is doing a great job taking care of them leading them around the yard. They are Narragansett/Blue Slate cross. So enjoy the pics

LIL Turkey

Dad

Mom

Lil Peeper

Mom sitting on eggs

   We had some turkey eggs in the incubator from our Narragansett hen and our Blue Slate tom. Only one of them hatched but the hen is sitting on fifteen more eggs so hopefully most of those hatch. We raised Broad Breasted Bronze turkeys one year and hatched them. They weren't too bright; liked to sit in the road and eat anything including sockets from a socket set. These Heritage breed turkeys are a joy to have around they are friendly and smart and can forage for a good part of there diet.

Flock Update

Sumatra chick

The Sumatra chicks are growing really fast, I gave a few of them away. It looks like we have four hens and one rooster. They are always underfoot hoping for a hand out, some of the friendliest chickens I have ever had. I picked up four bantams. A pair of Americana's and two Buff Brahma roosters. We have some Americana/Light Brahma and Delaware/Light Brahma eggs in our incubator.

Buff Brahma Rooster

The Kids are growing

Saanen Buckling

 I'm So Damn Hott!!( our new herd sire) and the Saneen doeling

 Angelfly and the Saanen  buckling

    We are raising four kids: three were born here and one of them we bought to be our new stud. He is a great looking black Lamancha buck.
Angelfly is looking like she is going to be a wonderful doe! She is in your face friendly and butts the others away when she think you're giving them too much attention. The other two are the Saanen twins. Not sure if we are going to keep them or not. We might let the Saanen buckling breed a few of our does. Seeing how we love his mom and she gives us about a gallon of milk a day.