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My DH has fallen in love with Jacob Sheep! When he picked up our dog from the boarding kennel, there was a bottle baby being cared for while the owner was at work that has stolen is heart :love . We have three Myotonic (Fainting) Goat doelings on our small ranch - 15 acres - that will be a year...

:frow Hi All! Saturday I will be picking up our new Anatolian pup. How do I blend her with my "pet" dogs - namely, Beauregard a Saint who is going to L.O.V.E. to have a pup to play with? Having second thoughts as to whether this will work or not :hit Here's how we're set up: Beauregard has...

Excited to join Red Hot Mamas! Didn't start my diet today, but will post what I DID eat :hide My struggles, aside from portion control, are drinking enough water and of course getting daily excercise (cardio). My plan is to lose 50 pounds by July 27- the day my niece gets married. I started...

On Saturday I drove 9 hours, much of it through white out conditions in Montana :ep to pick up three new 100% myotonic doelings...:celebrate My DH supported this idea even though he wasn't crazy about building the goat shelter. Anyway, here are my new girls...

:) Would like to try starting a herd of Myotonic Goats for pets and/or meat production!

:( One of my pigs has the above symptoms. The other pig does not. She is eating and drinking water. She was not wormed as a piglet. She is nearing 5 months old. She is a York/Hamp cross. Does anyone have any suggestions? I'm really worried about her. ALSO - I think they knocked over their water...

Hello All :frow I picked up about 10 lbs of plums from someone on freecycle. No chemicals or pesticides. Most of these plums are over ripe, and I'd like to feed them to my young gilts as a treat. But I've just read that the plum pit contains cyanide! Will the pigs naturally spit this out? Or...

Hello All :frow I came across the posting on CL yesterday, it has been bothering me ever since: Green Light Dodge is up for sale! It breaks my heart to part with my baby but my life just doesnt seem to fit with his :/ Financial issues force the loss of a best friend! He winnins when you call...

:frow Hi All: We have our piglets housed in an older wooden outbuilding, and were planning on throwing in a few bales of straw for warmth during the winter months per the breeders advice (snows here). But what about ventilation and light for those days when it's too cold or snowy to let the...

:) Hi All: I bought two Yorkshire/Berkshire cross piglets, sisters, they are 7 1/2 weeks old now. One is very sweet - she takes treats right out of my hand, and permits me to pet her and rub her tummy. Her sister does not. If I approach her she runs like crazy, and squeals her head off. What...

This morning when I went out to feed our piglets, I noticed one had a white runny discharge from her nose. No diarreaha, no cough, eating fine, plenty of energy. After a few minutes, she had wiped it all off by rooting around, and it didn't come back...that I could see. This evening she looked...

:frow Hello all: Just moved to a cabin in Idaho on 15 acres. I've been raising chickens for awhile. I saw an ad with a picture of some piglets on Craigslist and wound up buying two of them. They were born on July 4th. They were so cute it was too hard to resist! One is for butchering, the other...

:frow How can I determine how many users are online - like on BYC? Thanks!

:woot Hello Everyone: We'll be moving to northern Idaho next month. I would like to try raising a couple of Heritage pigs, this will be my first experience raising pigs. I have a flock of chickens, some heritage as well. I am not interested in pet pigs, I want them for meat :drool. How many do...

Hello: I'm due to move 8/1/2011. I have a male St. Bernard (about 220lbs), an Austrailian Shepherd (about 60 lbs.) a senior Cocker Spaniel (about 20 lbs) and a mini dauschaund (7 lbs). I also have several chickens I would like to bring with. The journey by car is about 3 days - with potty...

Hi :frow My husband and I are in the process of purchasing some property to raise a couple head of cattle, a pig or two and plenty of chickens. I went to the local fair today to the livestock auction and observed several young girls - and several moms - crying as their livestock was auctioned...