GopherBoy Farms

01/19/2024

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01/19/2024

11/04/2023

I thought I would just drive my car down to South America rather than purchase a ticket to be transported by airship or antigravitational saucer.

11/04/2022

GopherBoy releases a new product to aid in the horrible chore of slicing, dicing and chopping of an onion.

08/07/2020

GopherBoy Farms is going back into business.

08/10/2014

its going to be a hot one again....so sharing this again...dont forget for the most part those feather babies cant just go get their own cool water....help them out please.....

07/23/2014

we have two Ancona chicks!!!!! 2 hatched and where running around the yard with mom, so the remaining eggs got put under Princess our Cochin bantam who is sitting on her eggs, and Sara's (OEG) eggs and one large fowl egg

07/15/2014

Reminder for the heat wave.......
Its going to be a hot one....dont forget about the furry and feathered ones. Chickens DO NOT do well in heat. Change water often on hot days. If you cant be there to monitor them, then make sure there are extra water stations for them, fill them with with ice cubes put the waterers in the shade, frozen fruits and veggies for the chickens, soak the ground with soaker hoses....chickens are smart they will find the shade if they have some, Even frozen filled plastic soda bottles. Freeze them solid and put them around the chicken yard. they will sit on them to cool down. If by chance you see a chicken in distress from the heat pick them up, put their little feet in cool water slowly and cool them off that way. They cool fast if their feet are in water (cool water not ice water).

Now for the DUH part: Dont leave kids or pets in a car thats just stupid. And if its to hot outside for you, bring that dog inside the house, no dog should live its life outside, I see no reason for it.
Take care of the creatures you are responsible for and if you know someone that just for some reason isnt smart enough to do so, or physically cant....help them out. Not for the persons sake but for the animals sake.

07/09/2014

we have 4 broody hens now.....2 of the bantams are sitting on eggs. Princess our Buff Cochin is sitting on 3 of her own so I just slipped 1 of the OEG eggs under her and the Ancona has been sitting on 13 eggs (both hers and the other hen that is in the trio area with her). My two large foul that are broody will sit on anything (including door k***s, golf balls and rocks) so they get tossed out of the nest box everytime I collect eggs)

07/02/2014

okay....we are about due for a hawk attack. Two of them where circling around fighting over what looked to be a snake. Its been almost 6 years since our one and only hawk attack (that was successful) we had 2 other attempted attacks but that was when we still had Nikki Roo ruling the flock, nothing messed with the girls and got away with it when he was here...seeing a rooster fight off a hawk is pretty awesome. Dont know if Taz has it in him to do that.