livestock – Homestead One Day

Sammy snuggles!

On June 9, 2023

Sammy and his group were “helping” me today as I was wiring in the new bird area. By helping I mean making sure all the tender grass in the sod I dumped was devoured, as well as reminding me they were there randomly.

When I sat down for half a second, Sammy came over giving me his opinion of my break time. Sp I scooped him up for some Sammy snuggles and reminded him that they take way more breaks than I do!

After a quick picture, it was back to yanking off all the grass pieces! And back to work for me….

Baby dutch bunnies (and a bonus)

By nsmar4211

On June 8, 2023

In Rabbits

My steel dutch doe Susie had a litter of 6 and did great!

However, my blue satin’s first litter wasn’t so good. She had 1 healthy and 2 peanut kits. The peanut kits were humanely culled and since 1 kit can be harder for a first time mom to raise, I decided to give it to Susie.

I took a black mismark out and added the satin kit in. The mismark went over to a chinchilla dutch doe who had a litter the same day. So far, everyone is doing well!

I’m excited to see how these progress, as I see several steels and that’s a color I want to do more of. Baby power!

Coming soon…ish…hopefully!

By nsmar4211

On February 3, 2023

In Ducks, egg hatching

Just got done setting up a new incubator. It has been a long time since I hatched anything, although when I did I did hundreds between ducks and quail!

I’ll be putting blue runner duck eggs, one tiny serama chicken egg (that’s all they’ve given me so far) , and filling the rest of the space with buff/Rouen mixed eggs. 28 days of waiting ahead of me!

But for now, I watch the temperature attempt to stabilize itself….

New babies! Rex rabbit aka velvet bunnies

By nsmar4211

On February 1, 2023

In Livestock, Rabbits

After months of only 1 small rex litter…we finally got 2 litters! Both moms delivered 9 babies. One is a first timer and one is a first timer fir me (second for her). So far so good!

Baby rabbits are hard to take pictures of because as soon as you disturb the nest they pop up and start looking for mom…but I promise they are all in the picture.

It will be a few days before I can pull them to check colors..so for now they just get daily welfare checks (while mom is distracted with a tidbit or two).