Oh, and if anyone wanted them, I have a BOATLOAD of White Silkies and Americanas, all of which will be laying by Spring. I can even do some spring hatching ahead of time for the trip if anyone wants babies.

Americaunas PLEASE!!
Anybody want Cochin bantams? My 8yr old son has made them his life's work. lol
He is incubating some right now. We had to steal a nest full from a little cochin hen that WILL NOT stop nesting. It is too cold out there for baby birdies.
We only have 3 cochin hens left; the others died defending their chicks from skunks and possums.
But my boy is raising some up and they will be around 5-7 months old when we go if anyone is interested. Oh and the roo is a frizzle cochin bantam!

And the pigs are a landrace/duroc cross. She *may* be bred.....We hope! We will know in about 3 more months! That would put her babies being weaned about the time we plan on doing this crazy animal train!

Andi in OK

Wheaten or Silver-laced Americanas? Most of what I have are Wheatens, as that is the standard color for show Americanas, but I have been breeding some pretty black/white/gray laced ones that I call "Silver Laced" because the colors make them look silvery.

I am ONLY keeping the silver laced for my own purposes. But, I will happily hold back the wheatens for you and you can certainly have silver-laced if you want them too.:) How many and what ages? Come Spring, what I will have available:

Year and a half olds, fully mature layers.
8 month olds, just started laying
As many babies as you'd like me to hatch out for you. No color guarantees on hatched chicks, and will be straight run.

We'll take whatever you have the most of and we don't need show quality. Just layers. lol
I would like around 10 of them if possible even if you have to hatch some for us. Last year when my hubby got laid off I had nearly 120 chickens. I now have 32 and 6 of them are roos that need to go.....can we say freezer buddies????
So now I am building back up. Same with the goat herd. Sold all my full size milkers when dh got laid off. Sold our sow and all of our rabbits. Actually out of all our animals we only had two goats left out there and that was because they didn't sell. And we had a handful of chickens, maybe 12. So we are still rebuilding since he got another job last NOV. Takes a lot longer to rebuild than it does to sell out. sigh.....

Andi in OK

I think we scared Kshobbit off, she hasnt posted for a bit.

Oh I might take some americana's I have such a mix of chickens here, but you all probable don't want any of my hatches they are all mixed up right now. Am waiting patiently to play "who's your momma and poppa" with the 4 that just hatched out.

LOL, we let all our chickens (sizes and breeds) run around together and hatch out all kinds of great chickens. :)
We have a whole lot of cochin bantam crosses in the incubator right now. I know those are her eggs, but I don't have a clue which of the 6 roos got her for each egg. :shrug:
When I get ready for full blood cochin babies I just take my little hens and my little frizzle roo and stick them in an area together and then have pretty little full bloods. :)

I am hoping KsHobbit posts soon.

Once we know what is going on, ww, I'll post everything I plan on getting rid of one way or another. I have Silkies available as well as Americana. Those are the only things I hatch out right now.

I have some crosses I am *keeping*. :) I call them "Soochies", they are Silky/Cochin crosses and are black with gold lacing and lapels. Gorgeous birds...but I want to stabilize that cross, so I am not selling even one of them.

I sent a pm. I need me some goats :D I'm over in piedmont

We looked at land just outside of Piedmont last year, its pretty over that way. We would have bought the land but when I called the county, they said some campany owned it and there was no mention anywhere on their records of the man's name. When I brought it up, he said it was his company but I passed on it. It was a shame,it was beautiful property and the price was right, but I can't afford to get took.

barelahh do you know what killed most/all of your goats? As much as I like to "enable" others to get goats if it was cocci or CL it is still living at your place and bringing in young babies who are not as strong as older ones might not be a good idea as they will also catch whatever it is.

It was the winter. The cold was just too much and from what i could tell is they got pneumonia. And Coyotes got 3 of mine, barbed wire got one, and My Angora buck just died from old age. he was around 12 or so.

Sounds like you need a good guardian, a donkey, llama or an LGD. Once coyotes know you have easy food the nasty buggers keep coming back. I had a kid once who kept yelling the day she was born anytime her mom took a step away and I swore she was calling all the coyotes for 5 miles around, but I do have LGD who keep them away.

Anyone hear anymore about the due dates and such?

I am afraid the due dates will be scattered but I have not been able to talk to Diana so will try harder. she works a lot!

had a llama and dam thing killed goats. I couldn't figure out what was killing them til it was too late. i'll never have one of them things again thats for sure. When i here them I go out and shoot my 22. Tends to run em off now.

If I were you I would not get anymore goats until you can protect what you have. It sounds like you have issues with proper shelter if goats are dying from cold. Also, predators are not going to go away unless you take steps to solve this problem.

I will speak up on Barelahh's behalf here. I live not too far from him. He has sheds and what not. About as much shelter as anyone else around here. But he was not the only one that lost goats last winter. Quite a few people around here did. I don't really know why. Most people think it was from the cold. Could have been. We lost a lot of bees last winter, he and a bunch of other people lost goats and some ranchers were losing cows. It was bitterly cold with winds that just wouldn't stop and was more than most outdoor critters could take. His place is fine and he's done well with the goats he had. A lot of them were very old goats. Well past their prime.

Thank you for doing this. Although I do not know him I felt he was being treated a bit too harshly. I won't say what all was on my mind because I want to keep the peace, but come on ppl....

After re-reading my post I apologize if it sounded like I was judging. I simply meant that from what I read there were several deaths that were questionable. A few years ago I kept losing chickens to predators so I did not get more until I took some steps to "hopefully" protect them. After a lot of researching I built pens around my coop for our mini donkeys, we have not suffered one loss since. I also re-inforced all of the fencing with in the coop. But for over a year I did not buy chickens, which is hard for me, until I had a plan in place.

He actually has pretty good fences. Better than most. But there isn't much that will keep a coyote out if they really want in. He actually takes very good care of his critters, but he was hit with a really bad string of bad luck. It seemed to happen to a lot of people around here last year. It can happen to the best of us. It's just one of those things. :-)

Thanks. :-) Just seemed he was getting hit pretty hard and no one really knows the circumstances and I know he was getting a tad frustrated. Just being a friend. :-)

6e is right, last winter was a bad one. Folks that had goats for years, lost most of their herd last year. I can only guess as to the cause, pneumonia, ect. And she is also right my goats were older, now the ones i have are only 3 years old.

I don't plan on trying to live up to everyone elses expectations as it is impossible for one to do. I take care of my critters and do the best that i can do with them. The rest is up to God to handle.

BTW this is why i rarely come on here much anymore. You get slammed when you say anything. See it still hasn't changed one bit.

Back to more fun and important things....I want to go on this road trip!!!!! :) :)

Well, yeah, it has.

You got an apology. And folks have stood up for and by you.

We all have off days, and let's face it, this medium is kind of "flat" - it lacks nuance, and subtlety is really hard to convey at times.

I know you're feeling hurt, and that's understandable. But really, folks don't get slammed EVERY time we say something.

Just every other time. :buds:

SOooooooooooooo....

Looks like we're still waiting on dates from the OP.

I'm ready for this road trip. I wonder if Nick will milk... ;)

Yes your right pony. I appologize. I didn't realize that treasureacres appologized. My fault for not going back to read it all. I take good care of my critters and it really devestated me when i lost so many last winter.

At any rate, i still would like to get some lamanchas if available or even alpine goaties.

LaManchas are great aren't they :) If for some reason you are need more than you can get through this free deal, we will have Mancha babies in March. If you don't mind crosses, one of our does is half Mancha half Nubian and she is bred to my purebred Mancha buck and we have her kids priced very reasonable.

No apology needed. Like I said, we all have our days.

It must have been absolutely horrendous to lose so many animals. Hope you never ever have to go through something like that again!

I have had lamanchas, alpines, toggenburg i think, and oberhasli, (forgive the spelling) :( but of all those that i have milked, the lamanchas were the only ones that didn't get that funny taste.

I love nubians but they are so slow in maturing. I did have opportunity to get a couple but the person that had them had problems with the doe. She could clear any fence you put up. :O don't need a fence jumper here in town. Had one that would get out and i had one neighbor that called the law on me, cussed me, drove her dang 4 wheeler through my yard chasing my goat with the thing. I set up bee hives right there now so the next time she decides to drive through my yard, hopefully my girls will correct her errant ways! :D

LOL, we are in town too but we can't have bee hives here. If we could, I would have them. Would love to have my own honey. She is part Nubian but you would never know it just to look at her. She looks and acts like a LaMancha with only a slight roman cast to her nose.

All I have ever had was Nigerians. One of these days I'll have to get a "regular" goat to see how the other half lives.

I used to have one, but he died last year, not sure but i think it was old age. He was a buck. Fat as could be LOL, i loved the little guy. Rescued his furry butt once when a hay bale fell over on top of him. They had eaten the roll down to about 1/4 thickness and eaten out the center and it just plopped over on him one day. Didn't see him and went looking for him and eventually heard him fussing from under the hay. lifted it up and that goat hauled butt out from under it.

barelahh I do not know if you have chickens or how far you are from andiplus8 but she has a LGD mix that might keep the coyotes away from your place :) for a very reasonable $50. Yes I enable in all ways, aside from goats lol. I would never have a llama again either. Dang thing is suppose to keep the predators away not help them!

well right now, the 22 is keeping them at bay. I hear them and go out and shoot a couple rounds They take off then.

The goaties have what i call the bunker to go in. It is a storm shelter that is in my pasture. It works LOL. warmer for them in winter too since its half underground.

Hunters ought to be killing coyotes soon. Need to thin them down.

We had this happen about 5 years ago. Very sad. I warn everyone I know that has goats the danger of round bales. So sorry you had it happen too.

I sent a pm, Im thinking this is going to fall in lines of Ozarks kiddings and if it does, I would be glad to come get what ever isnt spoken for.

Man! I wish you were closer to the border!! I am thinking about trying to import good quality stock into Mexico to our ranch soon. The dollar prices are deterring me though! LOL. Quality is usually expensive, but it's that much more expensive for me because we earn in pesos! lol. :)

well now i toss the bales over when they get half eaten. That way no one gets pinned.

LaMancha????? Oh, suddenly Kansas doesn't sound THAT far away! :shocked: