Little Bird Farm

01/21/2026

Okay, I liked the original by Michael Jackson. Somebody needs to do this! This gave me chills.

01/21/2026

My 9 yr old daughter Literally everytime i ask her to go get something!

01/21/2026

Sorry ive not posted in a very long time. There's been a lot of personal life issues that have really derailed any attempts to post or frankly desire to do so.
Now for an update on things around here. Ive finally managed to almost complete a slightly larger pen for our goat and pig. Which will allow them more room and less for me to w**d eat.
We had raised a new batch of chicken several times. We lost one batch early in the spring of babies to a raccoon who broke into the chicken tractor they were in. Managed to end that one the next day.
Then about 2 months we had yet another raccoon also take out the .majority of what was left. I also ended that one within a day or two. As of now the chicken coop is about as predator proof as possible. It even takes effort for me or my 9 yr old daughter to simply open the door.
My 9yr old is the entire reason we are trying to raise birds. The predator load here is to me extreme high especially where we are located.
We've lost birds to Foxes (many times over the last 8 yrs. Also Hawks and raccoons. Ive seen a eminent in it's white cost closely as well as opossum (which usually arent a big threat. Bears and Coyotes have also been seen and heard within 1 mile of where we live.
I bluntly told my daughter we're a lot better at burying chickens than raising them and wanted to stop. No one wants to see thier child crying. It's my fault she's had baby chick's for her entire life. She's helped fix or attempt to fix apraddle legs on chick's as well as hand feed chick's with crossbeak.
She heard me say something sbout Livestock Guard Dogs and once I mentioned it she ran straight to her Alexa Dot Ziggy to find out everything she could. I then showed her the $1800 dollar price tag associated with such an animal. She asked me to set her up with her own bank account which I did about a week ago. She took all her money she could find and put it in for the guard dog.
I thought well she'll at least be saving money even if it takes years. Today she added enough besides what was needed to start it to bring her account to a little over $100.
As an aside she does not recieve nor will I ever give her an Allowance. If she wants money she completes chores, gets good grades, does homework. She gets paid using play money i pay her a realistic amount of play .oney as wages. Then to turn it into real .only it's a 5 to 1 exchange rate. So my thoughts of a LGD being years off may have been optimistic on my part. She could possibly get one sooner.

12/14/2025

I've had this tiny "farm" if you can call it thst for around 9 yrs.
The dream.... O for the dream. Happy chickens clucking around the yard with little babies and a nice garden where we can grow a much larger volume of food than I could where I used to live in Alabama. The extended summer hours are a boon. GARDENING is rewarding. YAAAA!

THE BRUTAL reality. The predator load . The number of predators per mile.is extremely high in my area. To name one..
Here is my problem in a partial gripe. I live near a dairy farm. They move their deceased cows to an isolates area of the farm for disposal. Said disposal attracts all sorts of predators. For this part we'll stick to Coyotes. Coyotes will.kill foxes whenever possible. A smaller predator is still a competitor. Foxes move to areas Coyotes shy away from. Near houses and preferably in dense new growth. Ta Da. I have both. Foxes also if they find a slow dumb food source will.use it to train their kits. I had one fox and her kits destroy 14 chickens in a day.
The other predators.....Raccoon, Hawk, Eagle, weasel. Their are other like the Fisher i have bot encountered and hope never to do.
I've seen way more poor animals die from this ridiculous amount of predators. I almost gave up.
I told my daughter we're better at burying chickens than we are at raising them, I told her we should quit. She yelled from.the bottom.of her soul....NO, Daddy i love my chickens!
Then I remembered those chickens. birds.who if they were human would be legendary. Tolkien... a bird who though a mutt Easter egger Americana was the soul of dignity and steadfast strength
Audri held Him whem they both were babies.. when she was around 2 he would actually play with her. I'm not sure if he thought she was his mom..or he had an inkling..
But he would.play with her.
So yeah, we're better at burying chickens tha. Breeding them for sale.
What we do is breed Legends! BABY, Thursday, HONOR, Pocahontas.
Small stories for a small farm. All Aboard treasure to know.

12/14/2025

My 8 yr old daughter on the days I have her 2 or 3 days a week. She has chores. Not just her room and cleaning it.

She is adamant about having animals. DOGS, CATS, FISH, CHICKENS DUCKS, TURKEYS.
She also has pig and a goat.
Her priority chores are always make sure the animals ate feed before she is. They have water and are healthy.
I explained it to her that she takes care of them and they think of her as a friend and a mommy.
We just washed our two Shetland Sheep dogs Missy and Rayla. (She's brushing Missy in the picture.) She's even understands each dogs special needs.

11/27/2025

Once again our flock is devastated.
We lost 6 chickens to a predator. First suspect was a fox, after the third attack I went to it being a Raccoon and covered every opening larger than 4 inches. A few days later the last 2 chickens died in the crate. Suspect escapaded leaving 2 chickens with signs of either weasel or Raccoon attack.
I used the 2 dead for vengeance. Placed them ina cage with a large snap in the door. After spending an entire day basically wrapping the entire coop in Hardwire Clothe/wire.
Caught a raccoon of around 30-40 pounds. Looking back to before the last attack I remembered an opening covered with wire obviously spread wider than it should.have been.
Cautionary tale for every chicken owner. Anything over a 1/4 inch is an invite for a free dinner.

11/22/2025

Almost at the point of giving up on trying to have chickens at all.
When it comes to raising chickens the predator load here in Clinton, Maine is ridiculous.
I started trying to raise chickens so my.now 8 year old daughter would.habe a hobby and chores/ pets she would.be interested in.
Over the last eight years our flock has flourished only briefly. Basically when it comes to raising chickens i feel.like I'm more qualified to just bury them. Between a coccidiea outbreak that blew through around 5 chicks in a day and a half and the number thet have died due to our mos5 common criminal, a female fox. Who seems to use our flock as training for her babies in the spring if their out.
Then their is the Hawks who have made several attacks. Thankfully less successful.
Learned to deal with those and then a new predator hopes onto the scene. A raccoon who manages to take out a chicken tractor full of baby chick's
Managed to end her the next day.
Now... we've got probably the most successful predator around targeting our flock. Thinking it was a fox, I moved my turkeys I to the much stronger coop with the chickens and ducks. Several chickens died.and it appear3d to be a raccoon type attack. Closed off any opening bigger than a few inches. This morning 2 mor e chickens were killed narrowing the attacker to a Mink or weasel.
I spent all day closing every opening I could.find bigger than a inception with either hardware cloth or bricks and stones.
I'm totally tired of the predators. I understand they have a place. Yet why does me and my daughter's flock.have to be constantly in their sights.
I just want chickens for my daughter to raise and enjoy. Not constantly watch her cry as her favorite chickens keep getting killed.
I told her I was done yet she still eants to keep trying cause she loves having chickens
She loves the babies, hatching them from the incubator, and helping the few born with defects to thrive..... until a new predator appears.
I'm glad she lives her chickens. I'm just tired of burying them all....

01/25/2025

Not sure who will see this. Does anyone who bought chicks from us in the past have any birds they would be willing to sell?
Our entire flock has been killed off.
Id love to bring some of the descendants of our original flock back home.

09/20/2024

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07/10/2024

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06/04/2024

Just went to the feed store to pick up animal food for Audri's Zoo. After I pay, Audri picks up the heavy (for her) bag of food for her pet mini pig. She walks out of the store with a big proud smile because everyone was making a fuss over how well she takes care of her baby pig.

05/31/2024

Apparently Susie decided she wants her meals served in bed. Just looked up to see her bringing her dish into the living room.