Guys I wasn't quite sure where to put these as there wasn't a private collection gallery as far as I can see. Nor is my farm really a "collection" but several members have shown interest in seeing what my farm looks like so I got out today and took some pictures. Now I did not get any good pictures of the Bison because being such a sunny day they are in the north pasture under cover. The only way you can access the north pasture is by ATV (unless you want to walk and its a 1.5 mile round trip). I will get some pictures of them when they rotate back to the front pasture or when I get can the ATV because no one is using it to work. Also I took some photos that aren't on my property of a local waterfall I thought you guys would enjoy as well. Since its not a zoo per se, I just linked to my photobucket account. tim_chandler2's Library | Photobucket
Very cool. One day I hope to own a farm property (or acreage, as we call it out here) like yours. How many acres do you have? You should give us a breakdown of your animals too.
About 200 acres of pasture, 100 acres of hayfield, and 300 acres of pulpwood (in a separate location but its just pine trees). All our animals are raised on pasture with supplemental feed. The goats are mainly so I don't have to clear brush. The pigs and llama are pets. The donkeys keep coyotes off the other livestock. We own: 10 horses 100 cattle 20 goats 8 pigs 27 Bison 1 Llama 3 donkeys some rabbits, chickens, turkeys, ducks, guineas, and geese. A Labrador (my duck dog), 3 Australian shepherds (working dogs), and one really really spoiled cat. There are also deer and wild hog on the property.
Private collections If you have a collection of animals and they are in good health and looked after well then i think it a good idea to add them the these pages for good reasons. We breed as a hobby, waterfowl, wood rails, avocets and lilac breasted rollers. Usuing these types of pages we have met and learnt from so many other breeders, helped others and also managed to sell supplus stock to people that really care and need unrelated birds. Two years we contacted a breeder of avocets, with his help and advice our one pair this year alone has laid 4 eggs as of 13/03/13 this is more than they had done in 3 years, so my advice is keep on adding to these pages. If you would like to see my web site:- Ornamental Waterfowl UK
Thought that was you Dick; welcome to Zoochat if you're new here. Now you can work out who I am.... Well done with the Avocets so far.
Thank you for sharing your web-site waterfolw22, a realy nice collection ! If you had already avocet-eggs on 13/03/13 I give you little ( none ) change they will still hatch or did you mean 13/04/13 ? In that case I wish you good luck because baby avocets are really cute creatures ( I've posted a photo of one I hand-raised at Walsrode Birdpark in the Walsrode Gallery ). Did you also already have succes with your rollers ?
Avocets My mistake the eggs were laid in the past 2 weeks from the 2/4/2013. Last year we only had two eggs one clear 1 hatched but unfortunately the joint was not correct we believe it was a calcium deficiency so this year we are adding extra calcium to the diet. Lilac Breasted rollers we have done well with, 12 hatched last year. We swapped a few with other breeders to make some unrelated pairs, we have 1 trio left from 2012. we also hope to do better with our African White Backed ducks this year
Very cool farm, and very cool list of animals. You almost have a zoo there. What do you use the bison and cattle for? Meat?
12 Lilac breasted rollers ! Do you have several pairs or did one pair bred several times or, even another option did you take away the first clutch for artificial incubation and raising ? Always nice to hear some privat persons have such good results and try to keep a healthy captive population, thanks !
HI, I have two unrelated breeding pairs in seperate avairys each end of the garden, all birde are parent reared, all birds are with Dna checked with certificates. I also have contacts with other breeders of LBR and if need be we will swap around to make the best possible unrelated we can. My older pair will lay two clutches every year and they have 3 eggs already this year. we only incubate if we feel it nessarsary. regards DJ
A nice shot tschandler71 on the far are bison kept as a mixed herd or do you keep the bulls seperate and only allow controlled access to the cows?
Thanks for the reply my sister in law has a rare breeds farm here in the UK but they used to keep the bull - a pure bread Hereford -seperate unless breeding, mainly for the danger of going in with a mixed herd .
we keep our grass Herefords on separate pasture as well. We keep the Hereford bull separate from the cattle. But Bison retain a little of their wild nature and are best kept in a somewhat natural herd structure. Plus there is no incentive to keep the bulls separate because the Bison aren't registered/have pedigrees.
