V & S Robinson Ranch

10/22/2026

"Nobody puts Baby in the corner"... if you know, you know 😄

Baby was our broody hen, she managed to have 3 clutches of babies and she was a good mom too. If you haven't seen a broody hen or don't know if a hen is broody just pay attention to the signs.

A broody hen will lay eggs until she decides that she has enough to finally "sit on the eggs". If you are like us and have free range chickens, if you do a head count just to be sure they all came back to the coop, and also, if you have hens laying somewhere else and not in the coop... she will be MIA (missing in action) 🤣

You will finally find her and decide to move her but she will fuss at you and try to bite/peck at you, not because she doesn't like you but you have to understand she is protecting those eggs.

If she is outside the coop, be carefull with predators, you have to move them entirely to either inside the coop or to a safe place.

Happy chickens!

10/08/2026

Not very often we get eggs just like this one but when we do, we sure are glad to add an element of surprise... life has a way of always make you wonder what you are going to get 🥚🍳

We are not the betting kind but we like to guess 😁. If you had to guess, what would this be? Are you team double yolk or you think is mostly whites?

09/29/2026

Earlier this month we said goodbye to one of our most loving hens 😞... yes you read it right, I know most people think animals don't have feelings but we can agree to disagree.

Her name was Beakette (I know the name is weird but in my defense I didn't choose the name 😅). She reminded me of her uncle Beaker, he is in a previous post. To everybody else, it should have been impossible for her to make it on her own, and we realized she had special needs. She had a condition called scissor beak and it makes it really difficult for them to eat or drink.

I have expressed this before, and I can't say it enough, we strive to be good stewards to our animals, we want them to live a stress-free life whatever long that is. We had to take extra steps to make sure she was going to be able to survive and these included to wet her feed (so it was easy for her to grab), have a deep big bowl with water (for her to be able to drink out of). She loved for me to cook her some oatmeal with rice 🍚 and every now and then we would get some bugs 🐛🦗 to see if she could eat them and she sure did!

She even turned out to be a good mom 🐣, she tought her chicks what needed to be taught even though she couldn't grab anything from the dirt, she didn't know any different, she was just another hen taking care of her babies 🥰

I will miss you my girl ❤️ but hopefully I will see you on the other side 🪶🪶🪶🪶

09/25/2026

09/16/2026

The beauty of having backyard chickens, as many people call it, is that you can get a variety of eggs.

As a working ranch/farm we like to have different kinds of chickens, we introduce new baby chicks to our flock every 3 to 4 years not counting the ones that we let our chickens hatch. This way, we reduce inner breeding as well as giving our older hens the option to just be happy and not stress their bodies.

As a general rule, a full grown chicken, whether hen or rooster, can live as long as 5 years and you have exceptions to that. A lot of factors come into consideration, if they lay eggs all year round, if they don't have a safe place to get away from predators, if they are caged, if they are under stress constantly, if they are out in the elements... you name it.

We strive to be as good stewards of the land and our animals as we can be, if we are safe and protected, our animals should be too.

09/10/2026

Meet CJ 🐕 he was our working dog for a time while his original family was getting the ranch ready for him 🚜

You may know the breed, Lassie was a collie, however you don't know how amazing these dogs are until you see them in action 🤯

CJ only has 2 levels of energy, as you can see, working mode or recharging 🤣 he is extremely intelligent and incredibly fast ⚡️⚡️ (Flash is no contendant). If you are looking for a heard dog for your ranch/farm, you will not be disappointed but keep in mind that you have to teach them to work and what you want them to do.

Border Collies enjoy the work and they want to please 🤗. CJ is now enjoying his family and his ranch 🥰 and as for us, we now have another working dog... care to guess the breed? 🤭

08/27/2026

Oh my Joseph! 🐂 he's not here for the fame obviously 😂 tried to caught him playing with the ball and guess what? He said I ain't doing it!

He is the very definition of bull-headed. If the Merriam-Webster had pictures of the words, his will be the one 🤫

This is not a fun video, I know. Just the relaxing sound of the wind, a few birds maybe and the precious sight of this magnificent creature.

08/20/2026

Everyone, meet Joseph! 🐂 I don't know how many of you remember and/or experienced it but back in 2021 in February we had a bad freeze 🥶❄️🌬 we lost power for a week but we manage to survive and stay somewhat warm 🤔
That's besides the point, here is the story behind that freeze and why it's going to be memorable...
Our neighbor had moved his cattle next to us and kept hay for them before the bad weather hit. When the freeze came we thought it was a matter of a couple of days but we were in for a surprise 😖

About 3 days into it, he asked us if we could please check on his heard being as he couldn't do it because the roads were really dangerous, make sure they still had some hay and of course break the water that had froze over ⛏️⛏️
My husband loaded what he tought needed in the side by side 🛺 and off he went to take care of business, next thing I know, he comes flying down the road with a wind chill of -20F 😂 and yells "you need to come with me! We need to do something!!!!" 😱

At this point I'm not moving, I replied "what do you mean!? What happened?" And he said "there's a calf steaming laying on the ground over the hay and the mom is not taking him, is not even calling, that calf is going to freeze. I called the neighbor but he said he can't do anything, that if we want it, is ours."
I loaded up on the side by side and here we go, we loaded up the calf and brought him back to our place... now what?

With no experience whatsoever we managed to take care of him, we bottle fed him 🍼, and he was bullheaded. One evening he had gone with the neighbors cattle and we couldn't find him, we thought: well it was nice to have him, now he can go with his family 😬. The next morning I hear him calling (you know your kids when you hear them 😁) looked out the window, he looked at me like: I made a mistake, I will never do that again, can I have my feed now? 🤣

He turned out to be a beautiful bull 🥰 he was my 800 lbs precious Angus. By the way, I recommend the movie Ferdinand, you can thank me later 🤭

08/12/2026

And then... there was Red 🐓 have you ever thought about a pet rooster? 🤔 well I didn't either until we had him.

He was mean to everyone one else, human or any misbehaved rooster except me 🥰 and when I say mean, he was mean, if someone had bad intentions he would put a stop to it 😬

He would protect those hens with his life, he would treat me like one more member of the flock, he would show his dance moves 🕺 as I called his name 😍, he would show what treats there were out there and let the hens eat before he did.

He was an exceptional rooster and will forever be my beloved Red, my guardian, my protector and my buddy🪶❤️