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Worth It Petsiting Service

We provide a petsitting service to anyone nearby. We are comfortable caring for:

  • All domestic pets
  • Most livestock
  • Lizards (including geckos)
  • Snakes (no "hot" snakes, please)
  • Fish
  • Birds, including raptors
  • Small wildlife
  • Some exotics

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Worth It Petsitting

Basically, we live, breathe, eat, sleep, and dream animals. So if you also love animals, you've come to the right place. Feel free to drop us a line to "talk" animals. Thank you for stopping by. Let us know if we can help in any way!
 

Welcome to Worth It Farms!

We "specialize" in animals, especially rare, endangered heritage breeds.
We breed & sell:
  • Ancona Ducks (critically endangered)
  • American Geese (critically endangered)
  • Cotton Patch Geese (critically endangered)
  • Silver Fox Rabbits (critically endangered)
  • Spanish Goats (ALBC "watch" list)
  • Corn Snakes (native, non-venomous)

We are looking to move into the following breeds. If you have any for sale or trade, please contact us with prices and pictures:

  • St. Croix Sheep
  • Gloucestershire Old Spot pigs 
  • Heritage Turkeys
  • Euskal Oiloa Chickens
  • Brahma Chickens: 
  • Blue Partridge
  • Buff-Laced
  • Gold-Laced

 

 


The News

Updated last on 01/13/201

*Happy New Year!*
Well, we moved into our new place, got most of the fences set up and are starting to gear up for a busy Spring. We are taking orders for hatching eggs, ducklings, and "point of lay" duck hens. We have ordered a brand new, large, cabinet incubator from Dickey's Incubators and are eager to try it out. As soon as it's up and running, we can start selling and shipping ducklings. 
Duck meat and rabbit meat is still available on a "pre-order" basis. Though right now, we have several whole rabbits ready. Our goal this year for duck eggs is to not "waste" a single one (not easy when each female will lay 260-280 eggs a year!) So far, the eating eggs are selling like hotcakes so this promises to be an achievable goal.  Spring will likely be covered by an abundance of hatching egg and duckling orders. 
This week, we had one of blue Silver Fox does give birth to five healthy babies and though this was her first time  she was a great mother. Unfortunately, we lost her in bad accident. We brought in a foster mom and her own kits to keep the SF babies alive. It seems like this will work out. So now, we are adding a New Zealand doe and her four kits to our herd. Check back for progress reports. As usual, we will be keeping up with feed efficiency numbers and offering as much grass/forage as possible. Winter makes that pretty tough though. 
Our Spanish goats have completely cleared out their portion of the field, but we haven't put up enough fence yet to allow them to clear out the back of the property. Plus, being winter there isn't much forage anyhow. So, they are being offered some locally grown, native (right across the street) hay every evening and are turned out into the neighbor's horse paddock during the day to eat whatever grass/brush they can find still alive. We should have some babies in the spring (April/May if I had to guess) and will be processing the bucklings and keeping/swapping the doelings.