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Yep, mating behavior. We didn't have a rooster our first year and thought it was very novel that the girls would squat for a little pet. Then we kept a rooster this year and saw what the behavior was really all about. It didn't seem as novel when we realized they thought we were roosters and...

My husband and I are taking our puppy for walks only on our property and limiting his off-leash time to areas that are FAR away from others' property and well within our own, for starters. If he leaves the property, it's in a vehicle, not walking out on the road on foot. I'm hoping that gets us...

Update: We took our horse to my friend's a while back. I was biting my nails over the whole thing but my friend keeps her horses on the same property with another guy who has all these large work horses, mostly male. My 20 year old horse who looked blase all summer, bored with us and our...

Looks like a mixed "flock"... hehe. You've got some pretty girls there... they look to be in fine health, always nice to see!

I agree with Darin115 about the compensation. It seems people aren't always compelled to do the right thing these days from an internal sense of right and wrong, but money and legal rights can sway them. I don't know if it's possible to recoup more than the value of the birds, but if it were me...

Perhaps one day all the chickens (or geese, or cats, or owls... etc.) will come together and decide that they need to remedy the problem of an exploding population of humans in their "gated community"? How can you blame a goose for frequenting a perfectly good pasture? It must really crack the...

Thank you Beekissed! I'm getting tired just thinking about the change and you all have given me hope. We've been overworked for some time (years) and we're trying to make a good decision that will bring more peace and organization to our place... I'm o.k. with the training time if we get a...

Thank you for the advice about dogs. If we get a dog, he/she will be be trained one way or another. I was raised on a beef farm and stray dogs running is NOT o.k. Our neighbor keeps telling me to get a Great Pyranese (sp?). I was thinking more cattle dog/shepherd but don't know if that would do...

We let our first batch of hens have the very little bit of meat that remained on a T-bone steak. You should have seen them fighting over it, 4 beaks clamped on, pulling in different directions. Since then I've told my DH that if I'm injured on the farm, I certainly don't want to go down near the...

We've made plans to send our pet horse to a friend's home. I'm pretty sure she's one of the main reasons we've had limited problems from predators, particularly the coyotes we hear at night (can't be more than a half mile away) and occasionally see on the adjoining property. We live trap...

So sorry about your loss.

I just had a moldy feed experience, also. It was bagged feed from a large chain store (no point in naming names really). We're in Wisconsin and we had all that flooding about a month ago. There's still standing water in many places around here and for a long time it was just MOIST everywhere...

I had long hair (mid or lower back length) through my early 20s, always in a braid on the farm, down when I went out. I cut it to shoulder length then and was thrilled. It still had enough length to attract my husband. He's said he'd like longer hair on me but would prefer me happy and...

It is so great to read all these posts and know that the numbers of folks who think about where their food is coming from is growing. I hope all of you are keeping up on NAIS news. It will potentially affect all of us. I really believe that small farms/family farms and homesteaders are the...

We've tried White Wyandotte, SL Wyandotte, Cornish X and Dark Cornish. My favorite, and the type we now sell for meat birds, is Dark Cornish. They are smaller and take longer to raise than Cornish X, but the meat seems to have a slightly "finer" flavor than the X. It's hard to explain. I guess...

3peeps... yes, thank you for posting that link. I picked that up somewhere a while back and would've been too nervous to let a hen set if I hadn't read it. Well, that and BYC because there were SO many things I didn't know and got tons of good info from the archives. I've got an ornery/mean SL...

We're in Wisconsin... supposed to have 80s, humid and rain/thunderstorms as far out as the weatherman predict We've got Cornish X in pens in the hilltop field and Dark Cornish in the brooderhouse. This morning the power went out at 4 a.m. so after about 40 min. the Dark Cornish (6 days old)...

P.S. - Our rooster has been "on his last day" for a few months now. Fortunately for him, he's good-looking, the right breed, and fertile (we have the babies now to prove it). I don't know why other people keep mean roosters around, but I keep getting more reason to keep ours. He's not really...

Sorry, I've been off on chicken and farm duty Thanks for all the good advice. We're going to move Hazel and her brood to her own chicken "tractor" in the field. I think she's about at her limit for being confined in the same area, albeit the nicest chicken area on the farm. I took all but one...

Thank you for the reply. I wanted to have ma hen raise these little ones as "naturally" as possible so I was hoping to integrate them into the flock. Abby, the hen that killed one of her chicks and one of the other hens, is still in the flock, along with a few other less than friendly hens, so I...