Ready for the Weekend!

I am so ready for the weekend.  I’m already checking goats around the clock, so not having to get up and go to work will be nice.

the full pink moon setting over pasture

Hera is ready to pop!

Buffy was out enjoying the sunshine.

Ms. Goose was trying to lay an egg that cannot hatch.

They are so cute together! Tiger, Sky, and Rocky

Everyone up north is doing okay–Bee, Casey, Dolly, and Floyd

They get their splints removed and checked out next week.

Maybeline

Hilda

one of the hens–barred rock

Pluto is still with the bucks; I can’t figure out how to get just him through a gate or door.

Sky is such a sweet, goofy boy.

Latte is so cute!

I still can’t get over how different Skittles looks (before I expanded her pen).

I can’t believe Ostara is about to be a mom.

Mr. Peacock

Zinnia is such an elegant lady.

Tiger is so funny!

And my sister will be here soon to help with kidding.  It’s all very exciting!

The Goosey Girls

I had Buffy in the pen with the chickens and Mr. Peacock, and Miss Goose (might have to just start calling her Missy) was still out doing her thing hanging with the goats.  But they had noticed each other.

I just couldn’t convince Miss Goose to go into the pen to meet her new friend.  Even though she was a little bit interested.

Miss Goose was just happy living her normal life.

So I finally moved the pool and put fresh water in it.  Miss Goose was not too happy about that.  She lost her pool!

So I shut the chickens in the building (Mr. Peacock was in there dancing happily) and opened the gate.

Success!

It was a pretty peaceful meeting.  I am just thrilled with Buffy–I’ve really missed the big, loud honks.

Buffy and Miss Goose

I’ll leave them in here together for a little while, and once they’ve had a chance to bond, I’ll let them both out to do some free ranging.

A Winter Morning

Well, about 3:00 am Friday morning I woke up to something pounding against my east window.  I went and looked out the front door to see…hail.  It was so weird because the deck was dry, but it was hailing like crazy.  Soon it turned to rain. Then it was freezing rain.  By the time I got up to go feed the bottle kids, there was ice and snow on the gate.

Definitely a layer of ice under the snow

It was coming down fast and hard.

By the time it was done we probably had about six inches.

It was still snowing when I took this one.

The birds were not happy.

The poor pheasants were struggling to walk through there.

I think the geese were questioning being back north.

Junco on the deck rail

The robin on the barbed wire shows off the ice again.

Some goats were not happy.

Perdita is pretty low in the pecking order.

The herd was not prepared for this.

The kids were really wondering what was going on.

Paisley, Pax, and Pixel

Sidney and Odie

Donkey and Shrek

Luckily, it’s not a snow that will last long.  And Sunday through Tuesday we have chances for more wintery mix and a decent amount of rain.