Saturday, May 18, 2013

The Farm is Full!

We made what we plan to be our last acquisition for a while.






This is Reaper Monroe. Yes, the kids named the puppy. Yes, they named it Reaper.  They had a really good "reason". Adams is pretty lazy so we got Reaper to go actually catch and kill the varmits. The boy's logic was she would be the Reaper to all the *bad* things we didn't want. It was interesting logic I couldn't argue with sooooo. Reaper Monroe it is. She is a 7 week old Great Pyrenees puppy. She is very much more aggressive than Adams is. She is the complete opposite of Adams in that actually - which is exactly what we were wanting. Adams is absolutely precious. But is very lazy, laid back, super sweet, easily trainable.. Very tame.. Completely non-go-getter. Pretty much everything was going to get eaten in the yard.


But with the addition of Reaper, it does make our yard feel - complete. We have just the right number of everything to be just enough to not need anything else. Nor is it so full to be overly crowded or hard to manage. The Reds are almost big enough to start laying. And Holy Moly the ducks are huge.

And Look!

 These are the Saxony ducks we hatched ourselves just a month and a half ago or so!! They're HUGE!!


And Look at little Lambie! We've found a spool for her to climb on as a toy. She loves it. She flips off of it like a little loon.


Adams and Reaper together are going to be awesome LGD's!

Sunday, May 05, 2013

Keets!!


The kids have been trying to get some guineas to hatch in the incubator. While they've got about 2 more weeks left before they are supposed to hatch, I candled them the other day and only 1 is showing *any* signs of any success potential - AT ALL.. most didn't even seem fertilized to begin with. Which is kind of a bummer, but on Craigslist I came across an add for keets for super cheap in Coweta (like half price of anywhere else and local so no shipping) so we made the little jaunt up there and got 10. Holy moly are those little buggers loud! The guy had several different mixed colors, so I'm not really sure what we ended up with, we just had him mix it up for us. They are tiny right now.

The helpers are excited about taming them. I don't really get the appeal of birds, but who can deny these little faces their little pets - especially since I won't actually be taking care of them?




Yeah, I couldn't tell them *No* either. They know if they do the work, they can have them. Little stinkers.