Strong Family Farm

10/29/2024

Laundry helper

10/25/2024

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"Hidden or Masked Merle" is an otherwise longer expressing allele of Ma+ (≥260 bp*), M or Mh whose pattern is being suppressed by the pheomelanin (red/yellow pigment) of either A^y - Sable or e/e - Recessive Red.

10/16/2024

Posting for my sister, she has a precious black and tan dapple longhair male, ckc mini dachshund *available* He is just over a year old, great with kids and other animals Pm if interested

10/15/2024

Puppy pic updates from the last silky/wire/longhair litter. These girls are black and tan silkys and longhair, and these pics were taken by their new owner.

10/14/2024

*Happily Homed*
If you are interested in a retired mini dachshund, Amelia is looking for a pet home. ❤️🥰🐾 pm for more info

Red Dapple Piebald, AKC 4yrs old

10/14/2024

Merle parti yorkie, boy 🩵 ckc registered *AVAILABLE*

10/10/2024

🍁Due at the beginning of Nov 🍁
~Maple & Brigade ~

Maple:Isabella based Cream EE ayat dd bb SS Pra Clear with Hazel eyes
7-8lbs
Longhair
half Russian, Littl Fut lines

Brigade:Red carrying cream brindle Ee Kb ayat DD Bb Ssp
Pra carrier
10-11lbs
Longhair, Becky Ford Lines

Expected coat colors/patterns:

Red or cream brindles
Chocolate based brindles
Shaded reds or creams
Chocolate based
Black and tans or creams
Chocolate and tans or creams

Will be UC Davis red vs cream tested, other test will be at buyers expense. All will carry dilute and chocolate.

10/07/2024

10/04/2024

For other breeders out there that genetically test their animals…how many times today do you think I’ll check my email for my embark results ? 100x? Or 200x? 😂🤣 If you know, then you know 😳😬🙄😂🤣

10/02/2024

🎀🩵 yorkies have arrived! 🩵🎀

-Merle Parti Male 🩵🐾🩵
-Black & Gold, Traditional Female 🎀🐾🎀



Moms 7lbs/Dads 4.5lbs CKC Registered

10/02/2024

The Mini Bull Calves 💙🐮💙

1) Burgundy Red and White, Mini Shorthorn cross, ExcellentDual Purpose Mini *AVAILABLE*

2) Deep Fawn and White w/ roaning, his Mini Jersey is coming through with the black/darkening on his points. Tiny! *Pending

3) Red Brindle, Lowline cross, very gentle, would be great for a petting zoo and/or breeding Tiny!! **AVAILABLE and Ready**

4) Deep Red/Black Lowline x Mini Jersey, Ready and *AVAILABLE*

10/02/2024

The Mini Heifer Calves 🐮🎀

1) White and Red (mostly white) mini shorthorn cross, great dual purpose, dam raised, polled vs horned still pending. *AVAILABLE*

2) Ginger red and white, mini jersey cross, also a great dual purpose, bottle trained. Would make a nice future milker, polled/no horns. *AVAILABLE*

3) Chocolate Red and white, mini Lowline x mini jersey cross heifer, amazing little tiny future milker, bottle trained, polled/no horns. *Pending*

10/02/2024

“How big is a mini cow?”

*this is a regular size, 60in, corral panel, next to Baby Belles bull calf

09/30/2024

Pupdate: Out for their stroll in Tx 🐾

09/26/2024

We have some beautiful mini dachshunds that will be due in November and ready to go in December! 😍 🐾🐶🎄🩵🩷 Sooo excited !!

Clear Creams
Shaded Creams
Cream Dapples and Piebalds
Black & Creams / Dapples
Black & Tans / Dapples
Blues and Blue Dapples
Red Sables and Sable Dapples
Chocolates
Brindles

09/26/2024

Why You Need to Wash Homemade Butter Have you ever been told that it makes no difference whether or not you wash your homemade butter? Do you think it really matters all that much one way or the other? Wouldn’t it be easier and faster to skip the washing step and just work the buttermilk out of th...

09/26/2024

This little cutie is living his best life in Montana 🐾🩵🤎

09/26/2024

What’s your favorite chicken breed ? Mine’s Mille Fleur D'Uccle 😍

09/18/2024

Have you been on the fence about starting your homestead ??? What to buy? What to start with ? Where to buy? Can we really eat it ? Will we not get to go on vacations anymore? Fears of not knowing what to do? But also wanting to be more self sufficient in our crazy economy, and possibly even make a better investment with your finances.

Well, here’s a few PROS of buying SMALL scale livestock…

-The obvious…You can feed your family even if you have very few acres, as well as keeping your property maintained. Small scale livestock like mini cows, kunekune pigs and Nigerian dwarf goats are all small and do not require acres upon acres to raise. You’d be surprised at what you can raise on even just 1 acre!
I recently went out of town and we bought steaks to grill out, I was shocked at the price of a commercially grown, store bought steak! We haven’t bought meat from the store since we started the farm roughly 10yrs ago. This was truly shocking! If we didn’t have the farm, we’d be on the bean and rice diet for sure! And for all you vegans, more power to you if that’s what works for you 😉
We like to keep our ‘parents/breeders’ as our pets and put a culled offspring in the freezer. We put a steer in the freezer every other year and it feeds our family of 7! So yes, a mini can still fill a freezer! And no, the steaks aren’t tiny.

-Gets you and your kids outside ! We all know the benefits of sunlight, fresh air and exercise. In addition to animals being therapeutic. Nothings more relaxing than the evening stroll, after dinner, around the farm. Watching the animals play and interact with each other and just enjoying being outside, together, making priceless memories, very healing to the soul and mind. As well as teaching responsibility and how to care for an animal.

-and yes, you can still go on vacation. These animals are grazers, as long as you have sufficient water for them, shelter, and grass (that you no longer have to find time to mow or bushhog) then you can indeed take your vacation. 🌴

-Hardiness! Mini cows, kunekune pigs, and Nigerian dwarf goats…are all hardy animals with very few/if ever any issues. We rarely ever have a vet call for any of those. They do not tend to have parasite overloads or need lots of shots, supplements or medications. They birth easily as well as being naturally good moms.
Which is why we also do NOT recommend buying from a sale barn. When you start with something healthy, it tends to stay healthy. Sure, you can get a cheap animal at the sale barn, and I’m all about a good deal, but is it really a good deal ? If you have to ‘get it back healthy’ or don’t really know what you’ve bought, that can lead to stress. We like homesteading to increase the joys in life, not create stress. So, skip that and find yourself someone you trust that raises healthy, loved animals. Yes, you may pay more upfront, but look at that as an investment, bc you will more than likely never see a vets office with a healthy animal. Remember, less stress , more joy. 😊🥰

I’ll never forget the unexpected feeling I had when we got our first chickens, mini cows and kunekune piglets. As I was looking out the kitchen window while washing the nightly dishes, I could see the newly bought animals roaming in the pasture and thinking…Wow, I never have to go to the store again unless I want to! I’ll have eggs, chickens, milk, butter, yogurt, sour cream, cheese, burger, steak, bacon, sausage, lard to make soap, and the list just continued.

If you have any questions, need help designing your farm/homestead, figuring out your farm/homestead goals, we’d be more than happy to help.

09/18/2024

Kunekune piglets *AVIALABLE*

Minimal-No rooting
Grazers
Gentle and friendly

Great for pet, breeders or freezer

All parents are registered with IKPR or AKKPS

1 ginger black female/gilt
1 ginger male/boarling
1 brown white male/ boarling
1 black white male/boarling

09/18/2024

09/13/2024

The girls 🎀 *currently pending

-ee cream, longhair, AKC could carry for chocolate and piebald. Discounted bc she has a small kink in her tail. possibly dapple *pending

-black and cream, longhair, AKC, carries for dilute with no signs thus far of cda in lines, possibly dapple, half Russian. *pending