baby farm critters

[ninedeer]

I just love living on the homestead where I can have animals.I have baby bunnies just born,my muscovy hen is hatching more eggs,2 new bull calves that we are bottle feeding.Weaned 25 fox pups even got a nest of kittens in the hay mow.Life on the homestead is awesome.

[farmertrappe]

I hear ya Ninedeer, I can't wait to leave my $70 an hour job as soon as possible to get home to my $10 an hour job. 10 now 9 feeder pigs, 70 or so layers, a few hundred meat birds of different ages gives me more pleasure than billing 10 hours out a day in town. Life is to short not to be happy.

[John Gusmano]

Aug 8, 2014 8:18:46 GMT -5 ninedeer said:

I just love living on the homestead where I can have animals.I have baby bunnies just born,my muscovy hen is hatching more eggs,2 new bull calves that we are bottle feeding.Weaned 25 fox pups even got a nest of kittens in the hay mow.Life on the homestead is awesome.

Ninedeer, Do you have any pics of the new additions? I would really love to see some. My wife and I have a shared dream of owning our own little self-sufficient farm, and are currently (and slowly) baby stepping our way to achieving that.

Fox pups, eh??? That sounds awesome!!! Do you raise them for fur? I’d like to learn more about your foxes, if you have the time to share! Thank you very much and I look forward to seeing and hearing more from your homestead!

[ninedeer]

sorry I took so long to reply John as for pics I still haven't learnt to post picks.PM me your cell # if ya want and I can text ya some pics.As for my ranch fox I raise them mostly to pelt out.sell some at auction,tan some to sell and have some made into hats.Hope to hear from ya.

[crossroads]

Farm babies are fun. We have 9 new layer hens and just picked 2 bottle calves about a week ago. I don't like the first week with the bottle babies though, getting them at a day old they're pretty feeble and I worry about them making it. After a week though they start to show signs of being stronger and I relax a bit. This last batch I had to take a crash coarse in tube feeding one of them. Thank the good Lord for you tube.

[jimo]

I would love to have more room so I could have more critters. Leaning toward adding a couple pigs next.

[crossroads]

Sept 10, 2014 19:31:38 GMT -5 jimo said:

I would love to have more room so I could have more critters. Leaning toward adding a couple pigs next.

One thing about it, pigs don't take a lot of space. I built a regular 8x12 shack with a good solid floor (2x4's) then fenced in an area with 3 Hogg panels buried about a foot deep to help prevent digg outs. Inside I devided the first 4x8 section off to store feed. The decider has a gate that is simply 1x12 boards the stack in slots. So the whole thing takes up a space of 8'x28' . It hold 4 hogs comfortably and I have plenty of room to stack a ton of grain.