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Hello folks! As per suggestion by our always amazing @Baymule i decided to start a post on a little adventure im hoping to take next year once i save up a bit. Bay gave me the wonderful idea of traveling around to different BYH members and learning how they run their farms and care for their...

So i am currently aiming at raising giant flemish. I am not sure about my female being pure or not (probably not due to the coat) but she is a massive bunny and is around 10-12 lbs which is currently a bit bigger than my buck who is a couple months younger. Doe: Buck I have lots to learn...

So rosie lambs on monday giving us two ram lambs bot weighing around 3 lbs But even though they are small in stature they are sturdy and were walking within an hour of being born. Rosie is deffinitly a good and very doting mother Next we have lily who is currently in labour so lets hope she...

Hello guys, I need as much info about all topics of rabbits that i can get. Though im not a total noob and have raised rabbits in the past, that was still over ten years ago and i have forgotten a lot of things. I currently getting three flemish new Zealand crosses (two does and a buck) who are...

Well here we go, the issue with not having breeding dates is you find yourself constantly guessing the due dates! And if you are anything like me that means its on your mind 24/7 :caf:lol: First on our list of big bellies and hostage holders, is our gigantic molly! Mother to twin girls last...

So my ewe is seriously pregnant though she doesnt have an udder yet i know that she is over two months (been keeping a very close eye on them daily watching how the have changed etc) Her vulva looks normal but recently her personality has turned to the exact opposite it was previously. Instead...

We have a small flock of katadhin sheep ( only seven but will double in two monthw or so we hope) so far ive been happy with it but recently my dads friend (who is all about the money) wants us to basically get a loan and turn our newly built barn into basically a feed lot for lambs in the...

So finally I was able to wean my lambs from my sheep. (A little later than I'd like) and I was wondering how long after the lambs have been weaned will the mothers be ready to breed? Our young ram will soon be getting to a breeding age and we hope to have them bred early to mid summer. Is it...

I absolutely love my colors in my flock so far, and I can't wait to see what my young ram has to offer, but I honestly would like to add some darker colors. I was reading goatgurls post from back in 2015-16 where she had an absolutely gorgeous black katahdin ram that looked almost like a black...

so I was given a Holstein bull calf as a gift by a local dairy farmer for my family helping take down one of his old barns. he will be staying in their barn until it warms up out here a bit. I'm with him every morning and evening to get him to bond with me so when he comes to our home he will...

My grandfather has been searching online and has read multiple posts saying that giving alfalfa to a pregnant goat or a goat who recently kidded will only cause negative affects. Is this true? The only hay we have has a high alfalfa percentage which both our goat and sheep love. Will it only...

On of my mama's, jenny, seems to have hurt her eyes some how, it's all red around her iris and she seems to be squinting. We don't have any seeded grass in the field yet so unless it was in their hay which I doubt. Here she is two days ago. Her eyes were open and clear.... and the next day I...

Does anyone have any blue prints for a homemade hay feeder? We just had a quick solution of netting stuck to the wall, but in their hast to get the hay, they have ripped pieces off the wall and now the hay is all over the floor :he!! I have seen many on pint rest but I was wondering what works...

I kept reading all these people's journals with their interesting lives and livestock, and thought that I would never have enough to post a journal of my own without it being boring, but we'll besides that fact let's try it out! I live on 7 acres of land only four of which are usable all year...

So me being relatively new to sheep farming, i don't know much about other breeds besides the Katahdins we have. I ended up buying a barbedos black belly/katahdin cross along with the rest of the herd, and from looking at her recently I have discovered little "nubs" on her head. Do barbedos...

Recently I have been reading through many different post ranging from a couple years ago to recently, and have noticed many of them speak of moon markings on the babies. So I was wondering what was meant by that, and what significance it had on the animal itself.

Anything I need to look out in buy sheep? What should I look out for in choosing a young ram? The ones I'm going to be looking at were only born either before Christmas or a bit after. I know when looking for ewes I ask if their mothers had any birthing difficulties but not any other questions I...

Newton as of this afternoon has taken to sitting in her she'd and yelling at anyone and everything including our chickens. Her utter has developed nicely her stomach has dropped and her hips (under her 3 inches of hair) are protruding. And there is signs of something dried on the end of her...

Newton has recently started having a dwindling appetite. She's not sick and I can sometimes get her to eat on her own, but as of the past few days she won't touch her feed on her own. I spent most of the other day in her pen with her and saw her food was barely touched all day. Sometimes she...

I love making clay animals both mythical and real life. I need inspiration, anyone have any ideas? Anyone want me to try and make one of their animals?