the funny farm our real farm name...

[the funny farm6]

I think when I first started in here I didn't have our official farm name yet, but the name for our farm is actually "fluffy butts farm" about 4-5 years after we named our farm another person in our state named the farm the same as ours so I added Durham's to the front so now it is "Durham's Fluffy Butts Farm". we bought our place in 2008 and my dad always joked that we had the funny farm. we have @ 5 acers. and have had horses, ponies, donkeys and goats, rabbits, chickens, turkeys, guineas, ducks, sheep, dogs and cats, and pet store type animals. (if you see it inn a pet store I have raised it) plus pet skunks, racoons, squirrels and a deer. we raised 4 daughters who are all grown and gone now. and 4 grand kids. the oldest is the light of my husbands eye. first boy in the family lol.

we have had a lot of setbacks. my husbands job closed and he went over the road and after the last kid moved out I sold all the animals and went with him. then we came off the road and I was doing good and getting built back up and I found out he was having an affair so I again sold out and was leaving, and we decided to work on things.

I currently raise mini rex rabbits and hoping to add a couple more breeds soon. we have 3 dogs, a pitbull outside for protection and a chihuahua (that we got to ride on the semi with us, and a French bulldog. I also have some Muscovy ducks. my first chickens were wiped out by a racoon. so just getting a new flock started. I would love to get pony and cart and a milk cow.

 

[Chic Rustler]

I have a pitbull too. she wouldn't bite a hot biscuit, but she's good at catching snakes.

 

[the funny farm6]

 

[the funny farm6]

These are the quilts I made the grandkids. The squares are actually what i had cut when i was making masks. When demand dropped I had lots left. So they became crazy quilts.

 

[the funny farm6]

 

[baymule]

Max is a coon killing fool. He was loose when I brought the last2 livetraped coons out of the barn. they growled and hissed at him and that made him mad. he is good with all other livestock. I wish I could leave him loose but we have an asshole neighbor. He killed 3 last fall. I think they were getting into his food and he doesn't share his food! and now he goes bonkers when he sees one.

We totally fenced our place. The gate across the driveway is a PITA sometimes, especially if it is raining, but it keeps our dogs IN and everyone else's OUT.

 

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[Britesea]

We totally fenced our place. The gate across the driveway is a PITA sometimes, especially if it is raining, but it keeps our dogs IN and everyone else's OUT.

We did too- saved up money for 3 years to do it, but now we have a 6 foot chainlink fence around our place (remember, it's only 1/2 acre). We have 3 gates- the front one for the driveway, and 2 "man-gates" on 2 sides to enable us to go forage the empty meadows on either side. Since the "troubles" started we've put locks on all three gates which is a PITA since we still forget to bring the keys out with us more often than not. But between the fence and our big fluffy LGD, I feel a lot safer, and we haven't lost any chickens, and no depredations on the garden because of deer, although the chickens themselves as well as the occasional ground squirrel do a number on any plants they can get a hold of.

I get upset at "city folk" that move out to the country and figure they can let their dog run free now. We've lost chickens to dogs here, and in our other farm in CA we'd lost lambs and kids before. DH shot one guy's dog that had killed a goat buckling that he had planned on being the major breeder of his herd, and the guy called the sheriff on us. Luckily the sheriff was able to calm him down real quick when he started explaining "triple indemnity" to the jerk.

 

[the funny farm6]

 

[frustratedearthmother]

I hope your family recovers fully. Must be very hard to wait and see.

Same!