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Lovin my Muscovies

Wanted to wish all the poultry Mamas a Happy Mother's Day!!! My muscovy mama just became a new mama last night to 6 adorable ducklings!!!!

Closer shots of the kids. (Bacon (Hershey) Margo in front and Mario in back.

@Latestarter here are the pictures you asked for. The tan nanny(Ginger) standing on the hay is a Nubian/Spanish cross. The white doe with black spots(Bacon) is a miotonic. The rest are full Nigerian Dwarf. Nanny (Crystal), brown doe (Hershey), white/black doe (Bacon), black/tan/white buck...

I have been buying up does left and right all spring. We have a beautiful Nigerian Dwarf buck, and he needed a few girls. lol. Well, now DS-10 says he wants to join FFA in the fall and start showing goats. After a bit of research the goats need to be registered purebred. (Still looking into the...

You were quite helpful in putting the issue into more perspective. The does parent stock are similar in size to the brown buck, maybe even slightly taller. Although these boys aren't quite done growing. (They will be 1year this coming spring.) The buck and doe will need to pass on a docile...

I have two young bucks in the pen right now and two doelings coming this spring. The bucks and does won't meet-up until the does are at least 1 year old. So, I have time to decide. However, I am having a hard time deciding which buck will be my breeder and which will be wethered. These goats...

I have constructed a small fenced area for chickens to roam about in. I have also constructed a small garden fence. This next project will be much, much bigger. I am putting up a fence around a 2 acre portion of my property. DH wants to get a few goats so it needs to be sturdy enough to hold up...

There is a local farmer who I typically get my chicken hatching eggs. This spring he has branched into raising and selling goats. He has some beautiful kids I am looking into buying. However, there is one concern I have. He weans his kids around 6 weeks or up until they are sold, or he breeds...

Where is this list of LGD breeds? I live on five acres with four dogs already. One of which already acts as predator defense. He is a German Shepherd/Collie mix. Our big issue here is coyotes and he has kept them away since moving here last year. We have another "who knows what she is mixed...

I am a member at backyard chickens. I learned so much from there about raising our chickens and ducks. Now DH wants to branch out into goats and the kiddos want to raise cows for 4H. The problem is... we know nothing about raising these animals, and we don't even have the fence up yet. So, I was...