Alaxz7272 I think they are Hampshire pigs. They are pink and the ears stand up. I castrated them myself a week ago and I hated it. I hope I have all girl piglets from now on.
Do you creep your alpaca? I am thinking of building a creep pen and read people make the gate slats 10-14 inches wide...
I enjoyed your post. I have some lgd and they are about a year old. I have them penned in a dog run unless they are out with me. I can't get them over the chicken killing thing. They do well with the other livestock. My goats don't like them though and some of the more aggressive does still go...
I can totally relate to the life change. I went from more people than one could count to more cows than people. The smells were totally different too. I am loving it and wouldn't trade it for nothing.
Well maybe somethings... yesterday I castrated pigs for the first time. I think I cried more...
We have chickens most are crosses but still some pure marens, and americaunas. We have ducks -peckins, rouen, cayuga, khaki camel and crosses.
3 turkeys a bronze tom and 2 hens that came out of a local feed barn. The tom was getting too friendly and would try and mate with anything that stood...
I don't know exactly what type of sheep I have.
I started out with goats and to make a long story short the FSA office said I needed sheep before they can talk to me. So I bought sheep from an auction. Supposidly they are dorper and a few katahdin ewes where in the group. The ram is supposed to...
Hi and thanks for the welcome. A teacher at the school my kids attend is a Fiedler. I am more familiar with a couple of Fiedler from Texas (my brother in law).
Normally we have good hay. But last year we got a batch of bad ables and had half the does abort. It was totally heart breaking and I would like to avoid that if I could. I hear what your saying about the effort. Thx
Hi all,
I just joined both here and BYC. I have a 10 acre farm in which we raise goats, sheep, alpaca, horses, and now pigs. We also have many birds of various kinds.
I grew up 40miles east of NYC and am new to the whole farming thing. Moved to this place 4 yrs ago. The birds were here when...
Kusanar,
Thanks for the update. I am new to both BYC and Herds. I have been playing with the idea of feeding sprouted fodder to all my animals. I will have to check out the link.
Do you feed fodder? I have not found many people who feed it especially in my area. I have been debating on...