Fin, Feather, and Fur

03/06/2022

Semi automatic rodent removal tools ready for new fields to roam. Mother is an outside cat but she came inside to raise her babies. 4 males and 1 female are ready to come make your house their home. First shots have been applied and house broken.

02/07/2021

With the extreme weather we are currently experiencing I thought I would share some tips and tricks to help keep our small animals healthy and cool.

1. A super hot day is a great day to clean out the refrigerator and feed your old leftover meals to you chickens. That bowl of cold mashed potatoes from last weeks dinner is like ice cream to your birds! Leftover cold pizza is a treat that helps beat the heat and cool their inner temperature.

2. Got some old freezer burned corn or peas from a bag of frozen vegetables you didn't quite use up? If not, a new bag of generic corn or peas is a real treat for the birds. They will eat the frozen food and it will cool their crop and internal temperature. It is like you having a few frozen blueberries as a treat.

3. For those who free range their birds, run a sprinkler for a half hour on the shady side of their coop. This give the ground a little water to produce thermal cooling via evaporation and makes a micro climate that is a few degrees cooler than the area in the sun.

4. For those with birds that are kept in confinement for their safety, you can do the same thing on their run plus wet down the exterior walls and roof of the coop. If they don't have a good shady spot in their run, you can attach a cheap tarp to the southern exposure of their run with some zip ties to make a shade and wind break.

5. For those with rabbits, the heat is extra tough on them. They need lots of shade. Again, tarps are your friends. Rabbits "sweat" through their ears and need some air flow to remove that heat. A fan placed in front of their cages helps them keep cool.

6. Another rabbit trick to keep them cool is frozen water bottles. They lay near these to keep cool. They sometimes chew on them so keep an eye on them as they thaw down as they might start leaking.

7. Spray water on the roof of your rabbit shed. It won't cool the interior temperature but it seems to stop the temperature from rising even farther.

8. Rabbits love some cold or frozen fruit or vegetables. A cold cucumber slice is a favorite as are apple slices.

9. Fresh water, fresh water, fresh water. Fresh cool clean water is paramount for healthy animals in any situation but becomes critical in heat events. Change your animals water several times a day. First thing in the morning so they can rehydrate after a long hot night. Midday so that their water isn't boiling hot during the hottest part of the day and again after dinner so that you can get them hydrated before the long night. It seems like animals don't eat much during the daytime and need good clean water in the morning and evenings as that is when they will eat and need the fluids to help them digest without becoming dehydrated.

10. Make sure you have an area where you can cool off an overheated animal. Cooling down needs to be done in stages. Bring the animal into the shade where there is a fan. Give them some time there and if they are still over heated, bring them into an air conditioned area to continue cooling. Bringing them from 95 degrees to say 72 degrees inside and building with a/c could cause shock so you need to use caution and watch for signs that they are cooling off too fast.

Hopefully these tips help you with your small animals during this hottest time of the year.

01/06/2021

2 bantam Easter Egger chicks. Local pick-up in Sidney Montana or possibly delivery between Sidney and Butte Montana.

01/06/2021

Sold... Mixed color Silkies available. Potentially blue, buff, partridge, splash, paint, and other colors. Fun chicks for your flock. P.M. for availability. Local pick-up in Sidney Montana with potential delivery between Sidney and Butte Montana.

11/05/2021

First day out of the nest box and momma Olandsk Dwarf is teaching them how to eat and drink. Excited cheeps and satisfied clicks are a joy to hear.

26/04/2021

*SOLD* 5 Easter Egger chicks are ready for a new brooder. Home hatched and hand raised little fluffballs will lay little green tinted eggs. These little feather friends will be a great starter flock for a back yard or a young person just starting out. The single hen is a picture of their mom.

23/04/2021

*SOLD* We have a small group of Olandsk Dwarf chicks that are ready to find a new coop. These chick have been handled daily since hatching and are super friendly. It looks like there are 2 roosters and 5 hens. Located in Sidney Montana. P.M. for more information. No Shipping.

27/02/2021

Some little Olandsk Dwarf chicks we just hatched from our dry incubation trial. Such little cuties! P.M. for avaliablity.

23/02/2021

Our dry incubation test run with eggs from our Olandsk Dwarf chickens started hatching today. Looks like we will have some cheeps in the house. We will post some pictures after the hatch finishes. Contact us for more info.

13/09/2020

We have made the tough decision to get out of raising rabbits. Work and family life isn't allowing us to breed, show, and sell like our business plan requires. We have sold our Creme D'argent herd to a person who is looking to work with and further the breed. We will be looking to sell our Lionhead herd next. Once our rabbits have sold we will have our cages for sale too.

21/08/2020

My chicken chick with a few of her silkies

17/08/2020

My chicken chick loves her chickens and her chickens love her too.

19/07/2020

18 happy little chicks heading to the brooder. 8 Wheaten Maran chicks and 10 Cream Legbar chicks. Cream Legbar are an auto sexing breed. We have 1 more pullet than rooster! These healthy little chicks are ready to find a new coop but if they don't decide to leave, we have a home for them here. 🐣🐥🐔🐓

17/07/2020

Wheaten Maran and Cream Legbar chicks hatching today. P.M. for prices and availability. Local pick up only in Sidney Montana.

27/06/2020

Will have Wheaten Maran and Cream Legbar chicks in 3 weeks. Now accepting wait list signups for this specialty breed hatch. P.M. this page for details.

09/06/2020

Did you know that along with standard breed chickens we raise landrace chickens too. A landrace is a type of animal that has been bred for performance and not a look, color, other standard. These types of animals do great on natural non confinement farms and where free ranging is desirable. They excel as organic or holistic type animals as they still have a little bit of that wildness about them while still being domesticated enough to work with.

This week we would like to feature our Icelandic Chickens, the first landrace we started working with in 2017. These birds have been great layers and mothers. We have hatched several clutches under broody hens and just hatched 10 in the incubator. This is a threatened landrace as their numbers are small and being able to track your birds back to the original imports is imperative to know you have pure stock that hasn't had any cross breeding since there isn't a true SOP to them and every bird looks a little different.

Please look here for more information about the Icelandic chickens. Let is know if you might be interested in your own flock of birds.

https://livestockconservancy.org/index.php/heritage/internal/icelandic

03/06/2020

Chick availability for the week of 6-1-2020...

15 Barnyard mix straight run fresh out of the incubator.

6 Barnyard mix straight run chicks @ 4 weeks.

9 Barred Plymouth Rock pullets and 1 cockrell @ 9 weeks old (buy all 9 pullets and the little rooster is free!) SOLD
8 Rhode Island Red pullets @ 9 weeks old SOLD

🐔🐓🐣🐥🐓🐔
***buy all of a specific breed on the pullets and I'll give you the next lower price bracket*** good through 6-15-2020. SOLD

We also have select straight run rare breed bantam chickens for sale. P.M. for availability and custom prices.

1 dozen Barnyard mix hatching eggs

We have eggs hatching weekly. We will incubate your eggs for you. We will incubate from your flock or you can have eggs shipped to us. P.M. for info on this arrangement.

See pictures for prices. Local pick up only in Sidney Montana.

12/05/2020

Chick availability for the week of 5-11-2020...

6 Barnyard mix straight run chicks @ less than 1 week.

9 Barred Plymouth Rock pullets and 1 cockrell @ 6 weeks old (buy all 9 pullets and the little rooster is free!)
8 Rhode Island Red pullets @ 6 weeks old

6 week old chicks are off heat and outside.

1 dozen Barnyard mix hatching eggs

We have eggs hatching weekly. We will incubate your eggs for you. We will incubate from your flock or you can have eggs shipped to us. P.M. for info on this arrangement.

See pictures for prices. Local pick up only in Sidney Montana.

06/05/2020

05/05/2020

Chick availability for the week of 5-04-2020...

Barnyard mix straight run chicks are hatching in the incubator had 6 out of the shell as of this posting.

10 Barred Plymouth Rock pullets @ 5 weeks old
8 Rhode Island Red pullets @ 5 weeks old (completely off heat kept in unheated enclosed coop)

1+ dozen Barnyard mix hatching eggs

See pictures for prices. Local pick up only in Sidney Montana.

28/04/2020

Chick availability for the week of 4-27-2020...

13 Barred Plymouth Rock pullets @ 4 weeks old
10 Rhode Island Red pullets @ 4 weeks old (completely off heat kept in unheated enclosed coop)

1 dozen Barnyard mix hatching eggs

See pictures for prices.

24/04/2020

We did a spot candle on our eggs in our new incubator and every egg we check had an active embryo in it! Even our shipped Barred Holland eggs that came all the way from Louisiana! We will do a full candle of all eggs in the incubator on Tuesday and post some pictures and videos. The embryos were very active in the eggs so it should make for good viewing.

We will have day old barnyard straight run chicks available weekly starting May 2nd.

22/04/2020

Chick availability for the week of 4-20-2020...

13 Barred Plymouth Rock pullets @ 3 weeks old
10 Rhode Island Red pullets @ 3 weeks old

10 Red Star Sex-Link pullets @ 6 weeks old (completely off heat kept in unheated enclosed coop)

13/04/2020

Updated 4-17-2020

Chick availability for the week of 4-13-2020...

13 Barred Rock pullets @ 2 weeks old
9 Buff Orpington pullets @ 2 weeks old (pending sale for all 9)
10 Rhode Island Red pullets @ 2 weeks old

10 Red Star Sex-Link pullets @ 5 weeks old (completely off heat kept inside)

07/04/2020

Happy chicks!🐥🐣🐥

The new commercial style brooder makes for clean and happy chicks! Raising them on wire is so much easier than raising them on bedding. The first week you use an internal feeder/water and once they have a little size on them you can switch to the external water and feed troughs. Dump the droppings trays daily or every other day and recover with newspaper and an absorbent like Sweet PDZ or lime to absorb moisture and smell. This system helps us provide the healthiest chicks we can to our customers.

07/04/2020

Updated 4-9-2020

Chick availability for the week of 4-6-2020...

15 Barred Rock pullets @ 1 week old
9 Buff Orpington pullets @ 1 week old
10 Rhode Island Red pullets @ 1 week old
3 Easter Egger pullets @ 1week old

5 Easter Egger pullets @ 3 weeks old

20 Red Star Sex-Link pullets @ 4 weeks old (only on heat at night will be completely off heat in a couple days)

04/04/2020

New chicks added! Ready to go today...

15 Buff Orpington pullets 0-1 week old
15 Barred Rock pullets 0-1 week old
15 Rhode Island Red pullets 0-1 week old
3 Easter Egger pullets 0-1 week old

4 Easter Egger pullets 2 weeks old

20 Red Star Sex-Link pullets 3 weeks old

03/04/2020

Who needs Chicks!

Week starting 3-30-2020
20 Red Star Sex-link pullets, 3 weeks old
5 Easter Egger Pullets, 2 weeks old

https://montana.craigslist.org/grd/d/sidney-chicks-for-sale/7102762410.html

More coming next week!

23/11/2019

A sneak peek at our 3 new babies. Only 9 days old and almost too big to fit in my man hands. So excited for these Creme D'argent bunnies!

25/10/2019