Dam Kids Ranch

06/21/2025

What's better than hanging out with some of your farm besties all day talking about chickens amd cuddling goslings, bunnies, turkeys and puppies?? Summer Peep event has been calm, easy, and great weather. And we've all sold a lot of birds!

06/18/2025

The beautiful and mysterious Minnie with her lantern eyes gives quite the stare when waiting for her supper.

06/13/2025

Best chicken chore buddy! Murphy the Tiny Chaos Potato, newest kid at the ranch.

06/11/2025

Helping a fellow breeder rebuild their page! Check out the original post to enter a giveaway if you like.

🩵🧡🖤🤎CHICK G.I.V.E.A.W.A.Y. 🤎🖤🧡🩵

**** do not follow any links from accounts posing as me, when someone has one i will do a live and message them directly from here or my main account. S.C.A.M.M.E.R.S are crafty and relentless so please help me overcome that until i can verify this account.******

In hopes to build up the following on my new farm page we are doing a G.I.V.E.A.W.A.Y.

It will be a Box of 5 silkie chickadees 🐥

I just loaded the incubator so it will be open until they start popping out of those eggs.

• To be eligible you have to post a comment on this post, (The original post)

• Like this post

• comment “New Follower” and tag 3 friends chicken pals, farm, agriculture, home and garden, the type of friends who may also want to follow and participate is encouraged.

• Share this post to your profile/farm page, and state they must check out the original post here to enter.

• the winner will be selected at random

• if we pass 2OOO followers by hatch day (around June 30th) the shipping will be covered by me, otherwise will be the lucky person who will be getting the nuggets responsibility.

• for every 15OO new followers past that first 2OOO I will add an additional chick box, up to 3 additional boxes, shipping will be your responsibility on the additional boxes if you are chosen. 1 box per person maximum.

•must be in the continental USA to eligible for shipping.

Thank you all for your support and patience. They can tear us down, but we have the option to rebuild… so that’s what I am gonna do ❤️

06/06/2025

"What you talkin 'bout, Willis?" Tiny white pullet is full of the SASS! Keep an 👁 out for available juveniles this month.

06/06/2025

Our first ever watermelon 🍉 making a tiny appearance!

06/05/2025

I call this "chaos trellis." Also known as "I didn't get the trellis done until the tomatoes were already exploding and now it's just chaos and hope." But... it will work enough. We'll have some yummy heirloom tomatoes in a few weeks.

I'm especially looking forward to the 3 varieties in the other bed I just planted from someone who's been propogating them for 15 years in our growing zone. We are in 10b, which has less than 100 frost hours and a lot of very strong sun. Plants that have acclimated are precious commodities!

06/03/2025

Me: I don't play hospital with chickens. They've got a week or so to get better, then it's lights out.

Also me: here's your fresh scrambled eggs with Avian health shake and hand smashed fresh strawberry, your Fluffiness. I'll be by later with electrolytes and a warm cloth for your face.

😐

05/31/2025

You get a leg band! You get a leg band! Everybody gets a leg band! Banded the latest chocolate babies tonight.

This is how we keep track of markings at hatch in chick down. Everyone gets a baby photo and a leg band by 5 days old. This has been especially helpful in tracking genes that are visible only for a short time after hatch, like extended black penguin markings 😍 and recessive whites or lavenders that can hatch with faint partridge stripes 😐. We also take note of toesies and vaults.

(The app we use to track is Flockstar.)

05/30/2025

She's so mad at me. 😂

05/29/2025

I didn't even name him, but Mojo is a fitting name for the son of Magic. Pretty boy will be taking papa's place in our Black program.

Seeing the incremental improvements on where we started is very cool. This boy is second generation DKR breeding, and has improved in the ways we wanted to on his parents. He has better comb color and a softer cushion than his papa, while keeping his extended black and body width. He's got some horns, and we'll watch for those wings to hopefully come up a bit as he matures. His eye ridge is a little less prominent than dad, and that's a good thing. He got his nice high tail set and wide soft cushion from his maternal clan. This was a good pairing. We have lots and lots of offspring from this pen, so it's time to rotate the boys!