Chickens.
Umm, I personally am NOT a fan of any bird. However, as animals they are healthy and well, slightly stressed due to the current housing of our new billy goat. More on that in a few paragraphs. Since last year we have completely replaced our old chickens. With our new chickens we started with two roosters and thirty-three hens. We currently have one rooster and twenty-eight hens. The GREAT rooster was killed in action while defending our hens, and our girly rooster (our hooster). The other hens died for unknown reasons, we think a coyote got a few and we don't know about the rest.
We are still planning on raising three hundred meat birds like we did last year. Hopefully I can get a few pictures of them when the first hundred arrive. That should be all that has happened to the chickens, they are pretty low key animals for the most part.
Goats.
We are swimming in goat chores for the moment. This last fall we had a disgusting billy goat come "visit" our three nanny goats. Which now almost six months later (goats germination period is only five months long) resulted in seven baby goats. The oldest of those seven are three weeks old. Operation exhaustion is officially underway. We also have Donte, our little billy goat. OUR billy goat, not the one that was our visitor. He is a trip! He lives on the non-chicken side of our chicken coop, and the chickens don't appreciate that. Needless to say we are building a different place to call home. He will miss the chickens, he thinks he is one of their family...
Cats.
We have a double digit number of cats. I am not even sure what numbers make up the two digits anymore. However they are healthy and happy for the most part.. I mean they are cats, I don't know the definition of happiness to a cat.
Ruth. (the dog)
She is always happy with a pinecone a foot away from her. She is also very forgiving when we forget about her occasionally. She is probably the brightest ray of light on our farm at the moment, it is raining and she is jumping up to get the water pouring out of the drains; she is pretty content. :)
People.
My parents are doing well! They are approaching twenty four years of marriage and enjoy working together on our hobby farm. The kids that are left at home is me and my older sister. She is almost seventeen and I am almost fourteen. Our eldest sister is living in Utah and is loving her job and her independence! Our brother is serving a two year mission in Australia speaking mandarin Chinese. It is amazing how things work out!!! We are continually grateful for our blessings that we have enjoyed immensely, and even the trials we have endured!
Thanks for making it to the end of this long post!! Hopefully I can remember to write soon!
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| Donte and flat Stanley, they WERE best buds! |
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| Clyde, the first baby. He is also the biggest! |
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| Bronson. Our goat world would be incomplete without him. (Clyde and Bronson are twin brothers. |
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| 2 out of the 3 triplet girls. Claudia, Patience and Hope. (They are all completely white!) |
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| Chester and Camille were the last two born out of all the babies! |
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| Their markings are also the cutest! |
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