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  1. microchick

    Checking-In On Herds - Post Here To Say Hello!

    Still in there fighting the good fight and living la vida loca with my flock and our four legged children. Have 10 eggs going into lockdown under a broody hen tomorrow. Praying for pullets!
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    looking to buy a horse

    I'm so excited for you! Congratulations! I got my first horse when I was 16 and kept horses for over 10 years before life turned me into a city dweller for a while. My best advice is if you see a horse that you like and want to take a second look at, have a vet who is an equine vet, arrange for...
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    Magnum- the unfolding/unravelling story of our LGD

    We were very lucky in that the pups house trained themselves with the aid of a doggie door. We had about a month of OMG! That is just too much poop and pee for 5 puppies to make before they realized that they could let themselves out via the doggie door we put in for them. No in the house...
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    Magnum- the unfolding/unravelling story of our LGD

    Off and on today I've been 'scanning' over this thread with the plan to sit down and read it in earnest later. Amazing is all I can say and I'm hoping that I can glean out some tips for personal use. A year ago this past April my husband and I rescued 5-3 month old Australian Cattle Dogs/Red...
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    Barn location

    We bought our homestead from an Amish couple. He built the barn uphill from the house...it's like....duh...every time it rains. Plus, there is another slope that runs from my chicken coop to the north so everything from that field drains towards the barn and then towards the house. It was like...
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    DO YOU THINK PONY RIDES SHOULD BE ALLOWED AT FAIRS??

    Nor mine. Amish are like everyone else. Not all cut from the same cloth. The Amish around us are referred to, even by other Amish from outside the area as being 'gypsy Amish' and if you drove around the area you would notice a stark difference between them and Amish farms outside the local...
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    DO YOU THINK PONY RIDES SHOULD BE ALLOWED AT FAIRS??

    Thanks @Baymule. I plan to!
  8. microchick

    Happily Herding Cats in a Lightening Storm

    Happily Herding Cats in a Lightening Storm
  9. microchick

    DO YOU THINK PONY RIDES SHOULD BE ALLOWED AT FAIRS??

    I don't post often here....lurk yep, post no, in fact, this is my first post on BYH. Hi everyone! A lot of you know me from BYC as microchick and know the story of the 5 cattle dog pups DH and I rescued last April from an Amish neighbor's puppy mill. We have lived in the middle of a heavily...
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