And more babies

Gosh, you would think it was spring around here! We have concluded the chicken hatch with 10 chicks! 5 for each mommy. They are all very cute, they were a mixture of eggs so i am not 100% sure yet what breeds we have. But they are possibly, frizzle cochins, silkies or bantam cochins. We have two naked neck silkies for sure (hard to miss them!)

we were also blessed with our Deva having babies! There were not due until next friday, but they arrived Sat morning. She blessed us with a beautiful solid black doeling, we have named Lela, which means Black Beauty. Deva also had a little boy, but sadly he did not make it.

Deva is working on adjust to mother life, she has not quite embraced it 100% so we are doing what we can to help her. She has stopped head butting the baby and is getting more and more comfortable with letting her nurse. We are keeping our fingers crossed that in the next few days she will take over the responsibilities completely.

As soon as I can i will get pictures of all the new babies!

Babies!

Been a busy week for little ones! We have had a total of 9 eggs hatch, 1 pip and 3 more to go! They are all doing great cant wait for them to run around outside!

We also had a set of twins a week early! Sadie decided enough was enough and blessed up with a little boy and a little girl. Both are black with white markings. Still working on names for them, as well as names for our new girls!

Starting Fresh!

Okay, lots of new things going on around the farm, all very exciting!

First, I would like to say goodbye to Florence and wish her all of the best with her new family!

I would like to welcome two new girls to our farm! Still working on the names, but they are very sweet and VERY shy! Here the two little ones are!

We are expecting chicks to hatch on Wednesday, we have Henny Penny and Itty Bitty sitting on a clutch of eggs each, hopefully we will have a great hatch!

We are also expecting Deva to kid on Oct 31 and Sadie to kid on Oct 30! Busy with babies around here! These kids will all be ready in time for Christmas. Our next babies will be bred for delivery in the Spring, we will be breeding all of our females that are of age, so we will have TONS of little ones running around (hopefully the new barn will be ready by then!)

Early Start!

Well it has been an exciting morning! All started with a wake up call from the barn, not for babies, but for breeding! We have sold Florence to a wonderful family, and they requested that she be bred, so we are working on getting her and the boys to play nice, not going to well! Boys will be boys!

We have almost finished the fire pit, the only things left to do are fill the hole around it and get tread stones for the top. I looks great, i cant wait to use it!

We also have two hens in the basement sitting on 17 eggs (good thing they are mostly small ones) We started with 25, but cracked 3 and 5 never developed. They are a good mix of bantam chickens, it will be exciting to meet them all when they hatch!

The count down is on for Deva and Sadie, yeah babies! We have Deva due Oct 30 and Sadie Oct 31. We will be busy in a few weeks with little ones! I love goatie babies so much!

Well i guess that is all to say for now before going to work!

Time to keep moving!

Well we made it back from our honeymoon! We spent a week in the Rockies! It was so beautiful and so much fun. We went on an ATV tour, a full day horse back tour and a cattle drive. As well as making a trip to the local amusement park and aquarium. It was a wonderful week, but we are glad to be back with the animals.

So now we are back down to business, here are our plans:

-baby watch for Oct!

-finish removing the old barn

-level land for new barn

-make a final design and build new barn

-plan out next years garden layout

-build another chicken coop

-finish fire pit

-install steel I-beams

So we have a lot of stuff ahead of us and we are ready to move full steam ahead. I will be posting honeymoon pictures as soon as i can.

Wow its been a while!

I cant believe how long it has been since an update!

Well lets see whats happened on the farm?

May: Dakota has her run in with a car, car:1 Dakota:0 , She gets her surgery and is on cage rest for the next 4 weeks.

I get a new job at the WSIFB making eye glasses

June: Dakota has multiple vet checks and things are looking good.

July: Chris and I get married on July 18 in CT

Dakota is healed and cleared from the vet to return to normal duty.

Somewhere in there we hatched a TON of chicks and gain more adult birds. We also worked on breeding some of our girls.

We are up to 65 birds, and expecting some baby goats tonight or tomorrow.

I am going to a horse stable in the AM to see about doing some work on the side to get back into riding again. (I am very excited for this opportunity, i hope it works out for me!)

We are going to be expecting some more babies in October. Things for breeding have been crazy this year with the wedding and now the honeymoon coming up. I know mom would not appreciate little ones while she is hear.

I will update much sooner than last time, i promise!

Poor Pup!

Well this week has been a difficult one for us and the future looks a little slow. Our puppy Dakota was hit by a car Tuesday night in our driveway. We think the guy was not paying attention and drifted. Anyway, she was rushed to the vet and spend the night in ICU. She was scratched up pretty good and had a very broken leg. There were three breaks to her femur in just about the same spot. So after talking with the dock and visiting her we went home for the night to try and figure out what to do with her leg, can we afford to repair it, and would it be worth it or will she become and amputee? 

We picked her up the next morning, saw our vet, he sent us back to the specialist and had her booked for surgery. The outcome of the leg from both doctors was good, she is young and healthy, she should recover just fine and have use of the leg. So the decision was easy, we get her fixed. 

She spend 3.5 hours in surgery on Wednesday. The end result is 1 bone graft, 1 plate, 10 screws, 1 pin and 4 wires holding it all together. She has an incision about 12" long down her leg. They also shaved all her scratches and the inside of both of her legs are covered in road rash. 

She spent wednesday in the hospital, Dad naturally brought her her favorite toy and a blanket from home. They said hopefully friday she can come home. To my surprise Thursday afternoon i get a call from the vet saying she is doing well, she is using the leg a little bit and with that progress she is ready to go home! So i made arrangements to get her at 3:00 that afternoon. 

Dakota is now home and confined to her crate for the next 2 weeks until we see the doc again. She looks terrible, but we are both glad that she is home. The one thing we can say from this experience is, if you hit someone's pet (whatever it is) and they have a collar on let them know or call the emergency vet, do something! We were home and i heard it happen, but the person never stopped. 

Pray for a good and speedy recovery for her!