Mom/Daughter Fowl

09/18/2024

18 guinea keets,
2-3 wks old,
Straight run only,
Greenville TX,
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09/08/2024

20 guinea keets,
6 Maran/Barnevelder cross chicks,
1 Splash Ameraucana,
Straight run only,
Greenville TX,
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08/31/2024

These cute little stinkers are ready to go ❤️.
5 Maran/Barnevelder cross,
1 Splash Ameraucana,
15 Guinea Keets,
Straight run only,
Greenville TX,
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08/19/2024

One of our puppies was returned to us in May and was placed in a new forever home that was working out amazing but unfortunately his new handler has started to have some serious health complications and is not able to provide the mental and physical stimulation that Duke needs any more 😞. He will return to us once again this weekend and is looking for hopefully a new Permanent home. Even if you can't take him because he isn't good with livestock your share and passing of the word about him will help tremendously.

08/08/2024

Just sharing some of our Ameraucana grow outs ❤️🥰. (These birds are not available at this time but some may be posted at a later date once we have made our keeper selection.) We still have 3 Ameraucana chicks left available from our last hatch if any one is interested in them they are a week old now.

08/01/2024

Our Black Copper Maran grow outs are looking pretty nice. (These are not available but only the best of the best will be retained and all others will be posted when they come available.)

07/30/2024

We did it! We used our home made milking stand and got our first 1.5 pints from Tita this morning 🙌🙌. Now to figure out what to do with it 😅🤦.

07/29/2024

Both of these original F1 Maran/Barnevelder ladies were hatched November 2015 and still gave us at least 3 eggs a week this season. Not even sure I should have retired them last year in to the pasture 😅😅.

07/29/2024

Goat therapy any one 🥰? Tita really does think she is a dog ❤️.

07/26/2024

Every other day garden collect.... I think we may have an issue 😅🤦.

07/08/2024

Dual Purpose chicks (Potential Black Copper Maran, Maran/Barnevelder cross, Olive Eggers, BBS Ameraucana),
Guinea keets (Royal Purple, Cinnamon, Lavender, Brown Etc.)
Straight run only,
Greenville TX,
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06/24/2024

11 Black Copper Maran chicks,
9 Olive Eggers chicks,
2 Pullets 8-10wks old dark brown egg layers,
Greenville TX,
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06/20/2024

I love my Maran, 2 of our 2024 girls are laying ❤️. Very possible both girls will be coming available soonish.

06/16/2024

Why do they have to sleep like this... 🤦 We still have 14 guinea keets left looking to give some one else a panic attack other then me while they sleep... Wishing all those wonderful Fathers an easy day today.
(Edit: they all thank goodness found another family to scare)

06/07/2024

And the noisy girl finally got her first egg out! What an excellent color for a first egg❤️. If she doesn't hit a 6 over the next few eggs she will be posted available. Ignore Jackson the Cocktail, she loves assisting me with all eggs even if they aren't hers.

06/05/2024

This chick has been screaming and hiding in different places all day long 😂 first time momma thing for sure. She is a mess.

05/31/2024

Some of you may know already but for those that don't, my job of 9 yrs came to a brutal end on Tuesday night... If your interested in a crap read and traumatic photos help yourself if you can read it with out paying for it, and know that so much was left out, some much was hidden about the process... I along with the family and other work hands of this ranch are hurting... We are struggling, we are not ok. If we as ranchers honestly believe this isn't coming to all of us that are self supplying and supplying for others then our heads are buried so far in the sand it will be suffocated with no return along with these deer and so many others over the last 3 years. https://www.star-telegram.com/news/state/texas/article288479815.html?utm_campaign=trueanthem&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook&fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR0DTA0r06bsH6UHNE7JVbvWazy3mtpFRRfg9skWLfDEvR1jNjAZzVf2LhU_aem_AfohiF1f7YUbFmZS7mbiFKx91qN2BwvfPqszKGg48oc2rNEL9wJsdHGVVuywkofC8UEcPiHCRDO38JsyuN7N3qpb

It’s been more than three years since a whitetail deer at Robert Williams’ ranch tested positive for CWD. This week, the state killed the whole herd.

05/27/2024

9 pigs processed and 1 rooster from yesterday to today 💪. Organs are being given to a local German Shepherd breeder for her dogs and our freezers are full of meat for a while. We are exhausted.

05/11/2024

The most recent of our heart breaks and sadly one that will define if we can keep our doors open to you all. My dad passed away in April, my mother lost her partner of 35yrs. With that we also lost the only income that has allowed us to have the animals we have and run the farm we have, so this hit hurts.... In so very many ways. We are grieving, and we will be struggling to pick up the piece for a while. As such we will sadly need to make some decisions about our birds as they are just not bringing in enough to sustain themselves nonetheless be able to help financially for my mother. Until we make those decisions please keep us in your thoughts and help share our available post in hopes of helping us keep going until we can figure out our next steps.

05/08/2024

We started our very first kidding season this year. Raising goats comes with many challenges and we have faced several already. Sadly our billy got kidney stones and passed away in March, after consulting with a vet and other breeders it's very common in the boer breed and nearly always a death sentence. Lesson 1 of goat raising in the books. Sadly Rocky passed away before being able to rebreed our does but we aren't ready to give up yet on them. Lesson 2: our doeling named Nutmeg broke her leg on Easter Sunday, the brake apparently is very common from what I can find🤦. The positive to our 1st kidding season was that both our does delivered beautiful large babies with ease, we were able to sell our first buckling, Nutmegs leg is nearly completely healed and she will be headed back out to pasture soon, and because of the loss of Rocky our billy, we have brought in our up and coming boy named Valentino. While my mother is ashamed of our failures and truly didn't want to share them, I felt that this was something worth sharing because animals are a lot of work and bad things just happen and it is nearly always out of our control when it comes to live animals. We live and we learn no doubt. (Picture of Valentino getting some love.)

05/06/2024

To start the year off our incubators have been on the Fritz which means we missed the pike selling period leaving us with very little income to cover the cost of birds (we have sold enough chicks this year to pay for 2 bags of feed). That is a very scary thing for us. We are getting the kinks worked out now, and have better hatches each time but sadly no interest in chicks, just started pullets or adult hens (not cockerels or roos 😔), which will cost us significantly more out of pocket to supply. This is our first big hit of the year that we will be sharing with more heartbreak coming. Our heartwarming news of the day is that we managed to sell down to just 6 remaining piglets from this year's litters and they have covered the pig feed cost at the moment. (Video of the chicks that have been gathering in our brooders for the last 2wks.)

05/05/2024

While we have several things we will share with everyone over the next week or so, both heart break and heart warming, know that we will need every bit of y'all's help to place our chicks as quickly as possible. For now just know if your hoping for a kid from us in 2025, expect them to think they are lap dogs if you take the time 🤷🤷. Nutmeg our doeling from this year and our upcoming buck Valentino.

05/01/2024

Nearly 85% fertility in our AM eggs wrapping up April ❤️ heres to hoping for some roosters to replace our Paul Smith rooster completely.