If you have chickens, you need nest boxes (well, maybe you are only doing meat birds, then you wouldn’t need nest boxes). Life on a Southern Farm blog is doing another contest, giving away a 4-nest or 1-nest box that her husband builds.
They have a great story, I love it. He has a great skill in building things, and saw a need and started this great business. Congrats to them!
Maybe I’ll win this time!! 
I could use the 4-nest box!!
If I win, we’ll have a party!! You’re all invited!
Announcing Silk Creek’s Oberon (maybe 
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Here’s the Story. Julia, Lilian & Aislyn are out of town camping with Julia’s family. Georgia stayed home with me so she can go to a party on Saturday at her best friends house who is moving soon. With Julia gone, that put Georgia in charge of the animals while I have been at work this week. Georgia called me yesterday morning around 10:00 am asking if I had fed the dogs that morning. I asked her if she had checked the alpacas yet and she hadn’t. I was feeling that it was going to be yesterday since I had seen Milkyway rolling in the dirt early in the morning. This is normal for some of our alpacas, but not that normal for Milkyway. So I knew she was feeling uncomfortable. Georgia hung up and said she would go check on them.
About 90 seconds later, Georgia called back and frantically said that the baby was on the ground. She seemed a little stressed. I told her I would be right home and to go out and see if she could help the baby. It takes me about 35 min to get home from the time I leave my office. By the time I was home the baby was up walking around and nursing. All great signs. Georgia had dried him off and took good notes on times. We took his temperature and dipped his naval, and all was well. He was running around the pasture in no time.
I noticed that one of his front legs was slightly twisted out. Made a note to have the Vet look at it. Kept an eye on baby and mom the rest of the day. All went well. The other cria’s wanted him to play, and as long as he was close to his mom, he liked to play. He is a big one, 24 pounds. That is great!
Our Vet came today this afternoon to check him out. He is doing great except for the leg. He has very tight tendons in one of his front legs. Now Milkyway did NOT like that we were trying to put a splint on his leg. I was holding Oberon’s legs, and Milky freaked out. She started trying to bite my head, and the started spitting on us. Mainly got me right in the face. That is when we decided to take Oberon out of the barn near the hay to put the splint on. Gave him a couple of shots and drew some blood. We’ll get his IGg next week. I’m going to guess it’s good, but we’ll see.
Yesterday I also took a walk around the farm and took some other pictures that I thought I’d share.
Well, we were not expecting it at all, but our third cria of the summer was born this morning!! ANOTHER GIRL!!! Another WHITE Girl!!
I was working and Julia and the girls were up in Eugene picking cherries with Rebecca and her family. I got a call from our neighbor Judy asking where we were. She said that there was a baby 1/2 way out, and we better get home quickly. I called Julia, and they were just finishing picking cherries, and headed right home. By the time they got here, the baby had been born, and Judy had come over and dried it off and watched it for us.
Georgia helped a lot, and she fell in love with the little cria. We let her pick out the name, Silk Creek’s Opal.
Nope, it’s not a new cria, it’s QUAIL!!
At the chicken swap a few weeks ago, Lilian talked me in to getting some quail eggs. We put them in the incubator, and they started hatching today. As of right now we have 6 quail that have hatched. There are 4 more that are pipping, and getting ready to hatch. Quail eggs are VERY small, that makes the babies very small as well!!
They are very cute! I’m looking forward to trying the eggs, and maybe raising them for meat. They should start laying eggs in about 4-5 weeks.
Here are some pictures!
Bil