When my husband and I started talking about the animals we were going to have on the homestead. Ducks were one of the first we decided on. But finding a source for the ducklings proved to be hard for us in Northern BC. I ordered 30 duckings in April for a May 10th hatch date. Those 30 arrived to us May 12th with a loss of 5 in transit and then over the course of 24 hours another 9 passed away from the stress of being shipped. I was devastated but the hatchery was great an

This past weekend our 13 year old son had his 4-H achievement with his first animal project. He’s been in 4H for about 4 years combined and had never done an animal before. He chose to do a market lamb project. The purpose of doing a Market lamb is to be able to auction it off at the end of the project to earn money for both the club and for next years project. This is Alferd The above picture is the lamb when he first picked him out. He was about 8 weeks old here. My son wh