mustangrooster
Loving the herd life
Hello all 
Im mustangrooster. Im from Northern Australia, you know, down under? The salties, the snakes, and everything? You cant really miss it........you know the song 'Down Under'? Might be worth a listen.
My family and I own over 50 acres, we are surrounded by 2 major stations, and we have thousands of acres surrounding us.
Basically, we are in the middle of nowhere.
I love a lot of things, but at the end of the day, animals are always my number one. My remedy. Sometimes the only thing that makes me roll out of bed- feeling guilty that all my animals are awaiting me and im late........those looks that chickens give you when your late to feed them.........
Life has been hard on me lately, like a big huge mountain that seems hard to overcome….doing everything in its power to push me down, to not succeed. On occasions, I find myself crying, because everything I need to do, have to do, and want to do, is just so much to carry. But I make an effort to get back up, push my worry’s aside, and keep pressing forward.
We (By that, I mean mainly me) have a lot of animals. I started out with 6 chickens. Broody hens pushed that up to about 9 chickens. And I’ve only really brought about 4 breeding pairs. When I got the incubator, 14-20 chickens quickly arose to around 70…ooops! Nothing to see here!
We own 3 dogs, my dog, shes always there for me, as I was for her when she came to me as a sickly 4 week old puppy. As are all the other dogs, but Heidi and me share a very deep bond.
Other animals include, ducks, turkeys, quails, a wallaby (2 died due to a seizure) a roaming buffalo that scares the living daylight outta me, roaming cattle, a budgie (one flew away, escaped through the holes that the Quails dug……) a cockatiel, a cat, a snake, 4 horses-----that’s all that has survived last year---it was hectic.
(I feel like im missing an animal..)
Rescuing and taking in injured wildlife is nothing new to me either.
I hope to add some breeding rabbits, and get 2 more little goats this year. (Our last goat died a couple of weeks, maybe 2, into the New Year) Keeping the goats before was also hectic! We didn’t have a good pen, they bleet all the time, but I want to have another shot at being a goat momma, if everyone else in the family agrees! It would be nice to have some rabbits again, after our one was killed. Adding some of our own poddy calfs would be nice, too. And maybe even some meat pigs.
I am hoping to plant a full on veggie and fruit garden now, its been a plan for a while, just never got around to it.
I do photography a lot, of the animals, and of nature. I could sit for hours just getting that right shot.
Long story short, our ranch/farm whatever you may call it, is crazy. Theres always something new happening, sleeping in? No way, the latest I sleep in would be to……..to….heck I don’t even know. Whilst it might be challenging at times, I love it, it is home, and I wouldn’t trade it for the world.
I have a lot of things planned this year, to improve, and better yet, succeed! Nothing’s going to drag me down, I hope. I hope I can share this never ending journey with you all.
Im mustangrooster. Im from Northern Australia, you know, down under? The salties, the snakes, and everything? You cant really miss it........you know the song 'Down Under'? Might be worth a listen.
My family and I own over 50 acres, we are surrounded by 2 major stations, and we have thousands of acres surrounding us.
Basically, we are in the middle of nowhere.
I love a lot of things, but at the end of the day, animals are always my number one. My remedy. Sometimes the only thing that makes me roll out of bed- feeling guilty that all my animals are awaiting me and im late........those looks that chickens give you when your late to feed them.........
Life has been hard on me lately, like a big huge mountain that seems hard to overcome….doing everything in its power to push me down, to not succeed. On occasions, I find myself crying, because everything I need to do, have to do, and want to do, is just so much to carry. But I make an effort to get back up, push my worry’s aside, and keep pressing forward.
We (By that, I mean mainly me) have a lot of animals. I started out with 6 chickens. Broody hens pushed that up to about 9 chickens. And I’ve only really brought about 4 breeding pairs. When I got the incubator, 14-20 chickens quickly arose to around 70…ooops! Nothing to see here!
We own 3 dogs, my dog, shes always there for me, as I was for her when she came to me as a sickly 4 week old puppy. As are all the other dogs, but Heidi and me share a very deep bond.
Other animals include, ducks, turkeys, quails, a wallaby (2 died due to a seizure) a roaming buffalo that scares the living daylight outta me, roaming cattle, a budgie (one flew away, escaped through the holes that the Quails dug……) a cockatiel, a cat, a snake, 4 horses-----that’s all that has survived last year---it was hectic.
(I feel like im missing an animal..)
Rescuing and taking in injured wildlife is nothing new to me either.
I hope to add some breeding rabbits, and get 2 more little goats this year. (Our last goat died a couple of weeks, maybe 2, into the New Year) Keeping the goats before was also hectic! We didn’t have a good pen, they bleet all the time, but I want to have another shot at being a goat momma, if everyone else in the family agrees! It would be nice to have some rabbits again, after our one was killed. Adding some of our own poddy calfs would be nice, too. And maybe even some meat pigs.
I am hoping to plant a full on veggie and fruit garden now, its been a plan for a while, just never got around to it.
I do photography a lot, of the animals, and of nature. I could sit for hours just getting that right shot.
Long story short, our ranch/farm whatever you may call it, is crazy. Theres always something new happening, sleeping in? No way, the latest I sleep in would be to……..to….heck I don’t even know. Whilst it might be challenging at times, I love it, it is home, and I wouldn’t trade it for the world.
I have a lot of things planned this year, to improve, and better yet, succeed! Nothing’s going to drag me down, I hope. I hope I can share this never ending journey with you all.
Really? Wow, makes me realize i dont just make things up when i say i have so much to do! Your snakes sound very interesting! Ahh........i dont know much about snake breeds, apart from the snake we have is a Carpet python. Though, we have had snakes from an Olive python all the way up to a kingbrown in the house, so does that count as a pet?
