Thane's Neck Farm

I put our alpaca stud Peter in the girl's pasture today to spit test the girl's.  Within minutes he had our female, Eloise, cushed d...

I met a new neighbor last Thursday when he stopped by the farm to let us know his favorite rooster had gone missing and wondered if we had s...

Went down to the feed store this morning to pick up new day old chicks.  They get thier chicks straight run (which means they are unsexed) ...

Well, here it is, the weekend before Thanksgiving. The push to get the remainder of this year's turkeys sold has begun. I had two gent...

That's what I heard while in the barn this morning. I sound I hear a lot of around here... in the spring! I went to investigate the chir...

This is one of four roosters from our Southern States chick purchase this spring. He tried his hand at crowing for the first time this morn...

Between yesterday and today there are three new ducklings and two more turkey poults in the brooder. I expect a flush of ducklings in the ne...

The kids have been looking forward to today all Spring! Today Daddy set up the pool again! The past two years here at the farm we have had a...

McKayla holding the 1st duckling of the season. I discovered the first Muscovy duckling of the season in the barn this morning. It was hat...

Let's see... The 16 chicken chicks are growing well. They are feathering out nicely and are even starting to fly up onto the roost in th...

It was a pretty typical day here at the farm. Our new chicks are doing well as are the new rabbit kits. I always worry about new babies whi...

I was happy to see this morning that all sixteen chicks survived the night out in the chicken coop. They were all piled up on each other whe...

With the recent sale of 11 of my crossbreed laying hens along with the loss of two of my purebreed hens this winter to the cow's waterin...

I sold another 7 laying hens today. I think I am going to regret selling so many... I may not get enough eggs to fill all my customers need...

Got a call this morning from someone looking for laying hens wondering if we had any for sale... we sure do! They arrived about an hour late...

My new sourdough starter is doing well. I only started it about 48 hours ago and it is already beginning to bubble. Below is a photo of it b...

Let's see, what did I get done today? I managed to track down seven of the roosters and get them isolated into the hoop house pen. Looki...

I managed to get three more roosters butchered off today. It would have been four but one of them escaped from the pen I had them in as I wa...

It was a nice warm day today and Taylor took a long morning nap so I actually managed to get four of our roosters butchered out. I still hav...

I was doing my normal chores in the barn this morning when I heard the muffled sound of a baby chick. I knew I had two ducks setting on eggs...