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Yeah, I am not making a dime; definitely my animals put me in the red.

I realize it’s a bit late for this, but I wouldn’t get any hay delivered in the rain. Maybe that’s easier here in CA than where you are. But I would avoid getting hay wet if at all possible. The fire danger, the mold, the waste. Much better to wait a few days and have dry hay and fewer worries...

That sounds easy! And like they don’t mind drinking warmish water, right? How hot does it get where you are?

It’s our first hot day this summer and I am wondering about the temperature of the sheep’s drinking water. Should it be cool or is warmish ok? I googled and it’s mostly about warming water in the winter, except one study that found that in the heat, sheep prefer drinking warm or even hot water...

I wonder if the grain went off (mold or rancid) and she is just more picky than the others? Have you tried buying a new bag and feeding that?

Like Baymule said, definitely not fake grass, they’ll chew it and it would be hard to get really clean. Best would be a concrete or tile floor, but it looks like you are setting them up outside? How many are we talking about? I would use bedding - just clean it out regularly and it won’t be...

Please help me understand ( - and I mean it; It does bother me that people keep rabbits in tiny wire cages, but I am open to the idea that there is a good reason for it that I just haven’t understood yet), why in rabbits only we think that avoiding pests, illness and parasites is so important...

Rabbits are more complicated than people think, so you need to proceed carefully. I recommend joining a pet rabbit forum where there are lots of rabbit owners who focus on the wellbeing of their animals, over convenience or profit, just to learn more about rabbit needs and behavior. Bonding...

We have very rocky soil and no rain for 6-10 months, so grounding a fence is a problem. I use the pos/neg netting fence for temporary enclosures, and no climb wire mesh or fencing panels and t-posts for permanent fencing. If your area isn’t huge I can highly recommend the non-electrical...

Even my sheep will eat anything (all the bad stuff) while plenty of good stuff is growing right under their noses. While in a pasture of lovely grass and clover they will dig through the horse manure pile and eat the last years tough dry weeds I layered in there. And the insulation on the water...

I only have three babydolls so far, and I use a waterer with a float that connects to a hose and fills two shallow bowls left and right. Had to put it up on two cinder blocks so they don’t step in it. I like it, easy to clean, fresh water, but anything with a hose makes me nervous about leaks...

That spikey stuff is milk thistle (a very valuable plant to restore the liver), pretty but be careful, it likes to take over. We had none here before the fire and while we were rebuilding it got away from me and is now everywhere. Best not to let it go to seed! The more heart shaped leaves are...

I am sorry if I didn’t understand what you were asking about. I thought it was about attempting to keep a green pasture through summer and keeping the area from being a wildfire risk since it’s close to the house? Anyway - I found this for you, about irrigated pastures in CA. The important thing...

No, what you do is you put your animals on it while it’s green, in winter. They will eat what they like, trample the rest. You can send them through again after things have dried to flatten the dry stuff left over. You make your „defensible space“ (I am sure you have heard about that, otherwise...

Again, I didn’t think you wanted to keep it in miners lettuce, either. But I am saying that it is a loosing battle to go against the local conditions and keep a large area green and growing when everything around it dries up and goes dormant for the summer. I really doubt that you could make it...

Doesn’t it look so nice in the spring? Yes, miners lettuce and chickweed - our meadow down by the creek looks similar right now. In my humble opinion there is no way you will be able to keep the pasture green through our long hot and dry season. It would take huge amounts of water (which is...

Also in the „no coat“ camp. With a coat, if it ever gets wet under there they will be colder. Plus it compresses their own coat, which makes it less insulating. Plus it‘s a pain and can get caught in things. You say they always wear the same fur, but they don’t. They have a summer and a winter...

That law really seems insanely broad. Whatever it was meant to protect against - (parasites or maybe it came out of the scrapies scandal and they want to avoid same or related species canibalism?), they went overboard… I can’t believe they would enforce this for private individuals who just have...

That’s what I was thinking - pygmie? sure it’s not a pig?

After a wildfire destroyed our home we moved into town and there - like clockwork - a band of coyotes came through every night yipping and howling. Never heard them out in the country, and have only seen one near our farm once - even though we are on a creek which serves as a wildlife corridor...