Animals
- Gathering Eggs The Hard Way
Every day during afternoon chores,I visit this henhouse... and this... gathering the eggs that the gals have laid that day.Then over the fence I go...into the goat yard, where I must check each and every one of these goat houses for rogue eggslaid by...
- The Adventures Of Tom, Chuck, And Edith
Oh, the fun of free-ranging turkeys!Tom, Chuck, and Edith are getting bolder each day...venturing farther and farther from their house. Each afternoon, around 3, I open the door to their yard andallow them to roam the farm for the rest of the evening....
- Guinea Update
This past summer's guinea keats are all now full grown and spending their days doing that guinea "thing".At this point, I can honestly say that their "training" has paid off. For the past week, now, they have routinely returned to their house to roost...
- Baby Steps
I have come to the conclusion that guinea fowl are not the sharpest tools in the shed. It seems to take forever for them to learn new behavior. Our 24 keets are now large enough to safely go out into their yard and not be able to escape through the fencing....
- Turf Wars
Well, the girls have had a bit of a dispute this past week. It seems that Jill will not let Missy into the maternity ward. Our three pregnant does are housed in their own goat yard with a luxury goat house. This goat house is big and wide open until the...
Animals
Raw Eggs and Farm Security
I'll bet the title of today's post has you wondering!
It will soon be completely clear to you....
The piggies have stumbled onto a most exciting find!
It will soon be completely clear to you....
The piggies have stumbled onto a most exciting find!
Each day when they go out to their yard,
they immediately run into each goat house...
looking for tasty morsels.
You see, on occasion while free-ranging, one of our chickens
will lay an egg in a goat house.
What an amazingly tasty treat these raw eggs are!!
Just ask the girls.
It looks like I will have to do goat house inspections before the pigs go out to play!
It looks like I will have to do goat house inspections before the pigs go out to play!
While we were outside with the piggies yesterday,
we were visited by our friends (neighbors) and their dogs.
Two strange dogs on the farm sent the guineas and the turkeys into such a tizzy!
Seriously, though, guinea fowl make excellent farm security
in that they do make quite a ruckus when anyone strange comes around.
What I didn't get on tape, however, is how the turkeys kept chasing the new dogs,
trying to establish dominance.
- Gathering Eggs The Hard Way
Every day during afternoon chores,I visit this henhouse... and this... gathering the eggs that the gals have laid that day.Then over the fence I go...into the goat yard, where I must check each and every one of these goat houses for rogue eggslaid by...
- The Adventures Of Tom, Chuck, And Edith
Oh, the fun of free-ranging turkeys!Tom, Chuck, and Edith are getting bolder each day...venturing farther and farther from their house. Each afternoon, around 3, I open the door to their yard andallow them to roam the farm for the rest of the evening....
- Guinea Update
This past summer's guinea keats are all now full grown and spending their days doing that guinea "thing".At this point, I can honestly say that their "training" has paid off. For the past week, now, they have routinely returned to their house to roost...
- Baby Steps
I have come to the conclusion that guinea fowl are not the sharpest tools in the shed. It seems to take forever for them to learn new behavior. Our 24 keets are now large enough to safely go out into their yard and not be able to escape through the fencing....
- Turf Wars
Well, the girls have had a bit of a dispute this past week. It seems that Jill will not let Missy into the maternity ward. Our three pregnant does are housed in their own goat yard with a luxury goat house. This goat house is big and wide open until the...