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Special Mini Farm This page is to document life with Pig Pig. All our crazy antics here on the mini farm. Pig pig is a

05/04/2023

Our special mini farm has been disbanded due to personal reasons. Most of the animals found new homes, but we lost quite a few of loved animals in all of this. The kids and I are hoping to find another piece of property to start another little homestead for us. Kids and I moved back into the city, and my ex has moved wherever.🤷‍♀️ our animals had to be rescued by neighbors because they weren't being taken care of. We lost 2 dogs in the mix, 1 bull calf, the other was rescued by the neighbor, 13 chickens lost.. neighbor rescued all the ducks, guineas and 3 geese. We almost lost our big tripawd dog but a friend took him in and is nursing him back to health until I can find a place that will allow us to have him back. I was able to take the 2 cats with us. We are super super sad we lost so much. We also lost our property and 90% of our belongings because we were kicked out by my ex. We know the remaining animals are doing amazing and we are thankful for the ones who stepped in and rescued the animals that were still alive.

Meet Pinky!!!!
15/06/2020

Meet Pinky!!!!

14/06/2020

We have New life on the Special Mini farm!!!! Tippy the goat had a baby. 💜💜💜💜

06/03/2020

It's been 7 months since I last updated, since then i have been diagnosed with a crazy condition called chiari malformation, and Ehler's Danlos Syndrome. The chiari took over my life. It required me to have brain surgery and a craniotomy. I'm now 2 months post op, still taking life kinda slow, I'm also waiting to have knee surgery, because when it rains, sometimes it pours 🤣🤣 I dislocated my knee cap and the ligaments aren't strong and are deteriorating a bit, so they have to go in and try to fix it. That will be april 2nd. But animal updates!!!! We are playing the waiting game, Mr. Toby may be a dad soon. Tippy may be pregnant. We should start really seeing signs of pregnancy soon. Chickens are doing good, not many predators these days, papa bear took out a bobcat that had been getting our chickens. But everyone is doing well and thriving, we are super stoked its spring time already again!!

Guineas.... they laid a few eggs in a pen... then we thought they were done. We have found 1 nest with 14 eggs (currentl...
17/06/2019

Guineas.... they laid a few eggs in a pen... then we thought they were done. We have found 1 nest with 14 eggs (currently in the incubator) and 31 under a guinea hen... once they all start hatching we will round up keets and put them in a brooder. I'm one excited momma!!!!!! Our chicken numbers greatly decreased. We had a bobcat or 2, coyotes, and neighbor dogs taking out chickens, breaking into pens etc. So we are down to close to 50 chickens. 😳😳 bobcat is no longer a threat, but coyotes are coming out in broad daylight. No more casualties for a while now. Let's hope we are done with all of that.

14/05/2019

So we had 300+ chickens last year. We are down to about 30 free rangers... if that. We killed the bobcat tearing up our pens snatching chickens and guineas out. That's why I haven't posted in so long. We have been dealing with predators. Last year we had the bear attack that took out quite a few chickens, neighbors dogs, then the bobcat.. we were losing several a night. Black copper marans rooster, spitzhaubens, bantam cochins... today I couldn't get to the gun quick enough and a coyote in broad daylight got my last Delaware hen. They have gotten all of my light brahmas, I have 1 dark brahma.. 3 full size cochins. I have them all in reinforced pens for their safety.

20/04/2019

I finally have a minute to update😁😁 we are finally hatching some babies. Guinea eggs go in the incubator in just a few days. YIPPEE!!!!

12/03/2019

So with the super busy schedule we have, Mondays are softball, Tuesdays are t-ball and baseball practice, Wednesdays and Fridays are for hubby's appointments Thursdays are for softball and baseball practice...

So we came home from softball practice and holy moly big pig was out. She had been terrorizing the neighborhood and scaring neighbors. We discovered the place where she had gotten out and holy cow!!! She tore the fence UP!!! So with a heavy heart, we put her down.. she was 5 years old and her breedabilitity starts going down. But she has had a good life here. So we decided with everything going on in our lives, it was best to put her down. Keeps her from getting out, fills my freezer, and keeps her from hurting anyone else.

I'm late LOL. But here are 2 pics of Toby and some of tippy. He has the blue eyes and she has golden.
18/02/2019

I'm late LOL. But here are 2 pics of Toby and some of tippy. He has the blue eyes and she has golden.

11/02/2019

17 Easter eggers/americauna eggs and 1 Marian egg in the incubator!!! We are ready!!!

28/01/2019

Toby have finally made it to weaning time!!!!! Woo hoo!!!! I will post pics of him and all of his growth and new horns. He enjoys his goat pebbles and hay, buuuuut, the next 24 hours will be interesting... Sink or swim kiddo!!! He has to drink water now on his own. We have offered it before but he had no intentions of drinking it. So here we go!!! As soon as we have him drinking water it will be smooth sailing. Then we have 3 chickens in the house. Herc and henrietta went back out, now HAHA, gripy chicken and Roxy needed attention. LOL HAHA is the turken rooster and he was way too cold. Gripy chicken cut herself up pretty good, but pretty sure she can go back out soon her wounds have healed. And Roxy... Well I just kinda wanted her inside. She's my last polish girl. I don't want her to get cold.

09/01/2019

Hi everyone!!!! So we have made it through the holidays! All has been rather quiet. We are still missing our little Grinley 😭😭 but on the farm there's so much to do we stay busy. Today while out adding chicken pecking block, I found my speckled girl stuck. ChickOstick got her self hung under a feeder board. She probably was trying to invent the newest laying spot when she got stuck. When I got her out I did a once over to make sure she was ok, and she went limping off. I had to double check her and found she had ripped/gashed her side open. Got her in cleaned her up, packed her with clove and frankincense essential oils mixed with a tsp of natural hen healer mix, wrapped it up to keep her from picking. Now she's doing ok hanging out under the lamp.

So why use clove oil?? Well clove oil is known for it's natural pain relieving properties, so this and frankincense, which is awesome for helping the body heal, and is truly an amazing oil(that's why the wise men brought it to Jesus). We use mainly essential oils for our farm animals. If we have a chicken with upper respiratory issues, we use Thieves oil in the water and with defuser. Understanding chickens air sacs are far different than our lungs, this seems to work great.

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