Four Winds Ranch: " Life on the Farm "
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bonbean01
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Bacon, bacon, bacon!!!! 
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My thoughts exactly!bonbean01 said:Bacon, bacon, bacon!!!!
at bon and marlow
Bridgemoof
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That's great! I can't wait to see pics of the little piggies when they arrive. 
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Four Winds Ranch
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I will definatly post pictures of the piglets when they come! I hope we can get them to all live as this time of the year here, it is nasty cold yet, and our barn has cr@#@$ heat! Oh well, I guess the mommas, and piglets that do make it will be better off than wherer they were!
When it comes time for butchering the BIG Rosie, I will be hoping for a lot of company! That would be as much pork as butchering a whole cow! I don't thing my deepfreeze will hold it all! :/
I hope we can get them to all live as this time of the year here, it is nasty cold yet, and our barn has cr@#@$ heat! Oh well, I guess the mommas, and piglets that do make it will be better off than wherer they were!When it comes time for butchering the BIG Rosie, I will be hoping for a lot of company! That would be as much pork as butchering a whole cow! I don't thing my deepfreeze will hold it all! :/
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Four Winds Ranch
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WE HAVE PIGLETS!!!!!!!! 
There were 3 (first time, little mommas, don't have many), but unfortunatly, the biggest didn't make it! We have a heat light going for them, hence the red light! These tow should get big and chubby with all that milk to themselves!!!
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Here is a pic of the litter of bunnies born about a week and a half ago! There are four but couldn't get the fourth in the pic.
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There were 3 (first time, little mommas, don't have many), but unfortunatly, the biggest didn't make it!
We have a heat light going for them, hence the red light! These tow should get big and chubby with all that milk to themselves!!!
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Here is a pic of the litter of bunnies born about a week and a half ago! There are four but couldn't get the fourth in the pic.
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bonbean01
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Wow...that was fast on the piggies...sorry you lost one...congrats on the two
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Four Winds Ranch
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I am the luckiest person alive!!!!! 
On Saturday, I got a phone call from a neighbor, who is older and she said she has a few chickens and would I be interested in taking them? She knows I already have some and she said if I am interested she would give them to me for free cause she knows they will have a good home! That even just looking after the chicks is getting to be too much for her!
I said "Sure! That would be wonderful", and offered to give her some money for them, or bring her over a few dozen eggs every now and then! She said "no" to both offers and asked when I could come pick them up? I told her I will be right over in an hour!
I went scrounging around for a few boxes, when my hubby suggested he take me over in his truck and we will put the chickens in his "Ewe Haul" (A wooden box built to fit in the box of a pick-up to haul sheep, goats, and pigs), cause it was already in the truck. I figured that would work but thought it was a little over kill (big) to put a few chickens in! :/ Oh well!
We pulled into the neighbor's yard and she came out and asked if we could back up around that way to the chicken house, which we did. She said, "I have them locked up in the hen house so hang on and I will catch them a couple at a time and hand them to you to put in the box".
So she handed a couple out the hen house door to my hubby and I worked the Ewe Haul door. Everything went good, BUT, she just kept handin them out and handin them out............!!!!
I am sure my mouth dropped further and further as they just kept comin'!!! We were at this for at least an hour! 
Finally she came out with one and said, "Well, thats the last of them!" Because I was too stunned to count, I asked " How many do we got there?" She says, "About 25 or so."
We again try to offer her money and eggs, but she flat out refuses and thanks us soooo much for taking them!
When we get home, and I unload them into the chicken house I decide to count. 49!!!!!!!! I am soooo glad for the Ewe Haul instead of my cardboard boxes!!!!
The neighbor said she didn't know the names of the breeds that they were, just the age.
Here are some pics, does anyone know what breeds some might be????
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On Saturday, I got a phone call from a neighbor, who is older and she said she has a few chickens and would I be interested in taking them? She knows I already have some and she said if I am interested she would give them to me for free cause she knows they will have a good home! That even just looking after the chicks is getting to be too much for her!
I said "Sure! That would be wonderful", and offered to give her some money for them, or bring her over a few dozen eggs every now and then! She said "no" to both offers and asked when I could come pick them up? I told her I will be right over in an hour!
I went scrounging around for a few boxes, when my hubby suggested he take me over in his truck and we will put the chickens in his "Ewe Haul" (A wooden box built to fit in the box of a pick-up to haul sheep, goats, and pigs), cause it was already in the truck. I figured that would work but thought it was a little over kill (big) to put a few chickens in! :/ Oh well!
We pulled into the neighbor's yard and she came out and asked if we could back up around that way to the chicken house, which we did. She said, "I have them locked up in the hen house so hang on and I will catch them a couple at a time and hand them to you to put in the box".
So she handed a couple out the hen house door to my hubby and I worked the Ewe Haul door. Everything went good, BUT, she just kept handin them out and handin them out............!!!!
I am sure my mouth dropped further and further as they just kept comin'!!! We were at this for at least an hour! Finally she came out with one and said, "Well, thats the last of them!" Because I was too stunned to count, I asked " How many do we got there?" She says, "About 25 or so."We again try to offer her money and eggs, but she flat out refuses and thanks us soooo much for taking them!
When we get home, and I unload them into the chicken house I decide to count. 49!!!!!!!!
I am soooo glad for the Ewe Haul instead of my cardboard boxes!!!!The neighbor said she didn't know the names of the breeds that they were, just the age.
Here are some pics, does anyone know what breeds some might be????
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