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Welcome
Welcome to CRACKING UP FARMS. We are a small, backyard hobby farm, located in Bayou George, Florida, just a couple of miles north of Panama City.
Among our many animals are goats, pigs, chickens, quail, pheasants, ducks and rabbits. Occaisionally we have other animals.
We hope you enjoy your visit with us and come back often. It is our goal to become an online community of back yard and hobby farmers.
When you register for an account, you will be able to post in our forums, upload pictures to an album, maintain a journal and many other things.
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 Wow, a month has gone by since I last posted. Time sure does seem to fly by these days.
Well, we've added to our animal population. Yesterday, we were given a new, beautiful billy, which the girls named Bruce. Today, Sandy gave birth to two beautiful little ones, the smallest goats I've ever seen. Of course, she is our biggest doe.
I'm sure we will add at least 4 babies over the next few days, since 2 of our other 3 does are expecting. Bob was born last month, and we aren't sure who the mom was. We though it was Dixie, but she is still pregnant, and Polka and Bambi still look to be with kid themselves. Poor Dixie, we thought Bob was hers and forced him on her.
We've also added a goose to our flock and of course, the girls named it Lucy. A dog was chasing her and she ran up to a friend of ours for safety, so he brought her to us.
Our potbellies, Petunia and Little Girl should be delivering anytime as well.
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Posted by Michael on Tuesday, July 28 @ 21:32:02 CDT (54 reads)
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My how time flies. It's hard to believe I haven't posted in so long.
Anyway, all the goats, including the old one are doing well. Dixie surprised us overnight, with a young billy. Just a single goat this time. He'll be available in about 5 months, and he should be a small one, a cross between a Nigerian Dwarf and a pygmy.
Our chickens are producing about a dozen eggs a day. If you would like a dozen, let us know. We have the following breeds:
Brahma ~ Buff Orphington ~ Butter Cup ~ Game ~ Wyandotte ~ Sex Link
Petunia, our small potbelly is also due anytime now. Check back for updates.
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Posted by Michael on Wednesday, June 24 @ 16:28:17 CDT (82 reads)
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Well, we bid goodbye to Star, our Nubian Goat a couple of weeks ago. She went to live with our friend Rick, who wanted her since he has some overgrown property he wants her to help clear. I'm sure she will be happier there, since she was the low goat in the pecking order anyway.
We welcome 3 new goats to our farm. I'll post some pictures in the next couple of days. They are Bambi, a mini, and Polka, a small black cutie, and Buffy, which you know is a buff color.
That brings us a total of 5 goats, 1 Billy and 4 Nannies.
Oh yea, I forgot about me. I'm an old goat too.
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Posted by Michael on Sunday, March 01 @ 19:36:52 CST (117 reads)
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So, it seems that the rabbit really had more than one. It just took a couple of days for the rest to become brave enough to join the oldest.
While feeding this morning, there were three more bundles of joy running around the chicken pen. We removed those and placed them with mom in a different pen. Shortly thereafter, another two ventured out of their burrow. Just when we thought that was it, out popped the last one.
So, 7 cute little babies have almost doubled our rabbit population. We done some research, and will probably continue to increase our rabbit holdings.
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Posted by Michael on Sunday, March 01 @ 19:04:23 CST (120 reads)
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Wow, Daynna and I got up this morning to feed all the animules, I mean animals, and much to our surprise, we have a new baby.
We keep a few of our rabbits with our chickens, and have for awhile. We've always heard about what prolific breeders rabbits were, but ours seemed to be unlike the stories we had heard about having two, and shortly turning into hundreds.
So, here we are, and Daynna gives a surprise "Michael, look, there's a baby bunny". What the heck? Where in the world did it come from? I checked all around, and couldn't find a burrow or hole that it may have come from.
I'm not sure how in the world we could have missed it, as it appears to be about 2 weeks old. I guess we are going to learn a lot more about rabbits before to long.
Also, our silkie hen, who it seems was broody and sitting on eggs forever has finally hatched one, and another that is pipped. It will be iteresting to see what breed it will be, since we added eggs from some of our other breeds to her own eggs.
I am always in awe.
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Posted by Michael on Friday, February 27 @ 10:00:24 CST (230 reads)
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