Chick time!

Well it is that time again . . . chicks! We have the incubator full! We have 5 frizzle eggs and 32 EE/Amerucana eggs! First hatch is set for April 6, Second one is April 13 and the last one is April 16. Hopefully we will have a good one. 

I have already starting lining up my eggs for May, I am planning 12 assorted turkey eggs, 20 bantam cochins and the rest I am not sure of yet! 

I am looking for homes for Coco's baby boys (Cowboy and Danny). They can go as bucks or wethers. Either way, they will make wonderful pets. They are so friendly and cute, it will be hard to see them go!

New Beginnings

Well, we would like to say goodbye to Ariana and Willow. The set of identical twins. They were picked up by their new family, the Seats, yesterday. We wish them all the best with their new pets. 

Stella misses them this morning, but her crying should not last long, as we discovered she is in heat. ::shakes head:: miniature goats are just crazy when it comes to breeding.

Our next set of babies, Midnight and Ash will be going to their new home next weekend. And Coco's babies will be pictured and posted for sale soon. 

Well I guess if we kept all the babies we had we would be completely overrun with goats. So selling them is not such a terrible thing.  

Yeah babies!

Thank goodness we had a snow day today. We were both able to be there for little coco when she gave birth. It was nerve racking and exciting all at the same time. Both kids are doing well. We have two bucklings. One is black and the other appears to be dark chocolate. I am sure that coco will be a great little mommy! She even gets to stay in the basement tonight (she's just a touch spoiled) 

Coco not only had Chris and I there with her, but her foster daddy Sprocket was waiting at the top of the stairs for her to have her babies safely (he is such a mush)

Well here are the babies!

Monster Egg

My poor chicken!

Introducing . . . Dottie

Here is florence's doeling. One of her ears is a little lopsided. It will straighten out eventually, must have been smashed while in her mommy!

She is too cute, and a noisy little bugger!

Surprise!

We have been waiting for little Coco to kid, and when Chris got home from work today he discovered that we had a baby! . . . but it was not from Coco. We were kind of surprised because we were not expecting anyone else to be kidding until May. After some quick detective work Chris figured out that it was Florence that had kidded. She had a beautiful single doe! I will have to post pictures of her tomorrow. 

I really hope that Coco follows Florence's lead and kids soon!

Accomplished Weekend

Wow, it has been awhile! So here is what has been going on:

We found out that Coco is pregnant, at this point, she is due any time now! I know she is getting uncomfortable, and he udder is filling nicely. I hope that all goes well for her in delivery, and would prefer for this kidding that she only have one, but she may have other plans. We do not know who that Sire is, she decided she wanted babies and took care of this one herself, so it will be a surprise for us when they arrive. 

The chickens have begun their production. I am sure the warm weather has helped a bit with that. We currently have 17 hens and todays egg count was 11! We have begun selling to people at work and posting ads on craigslist. I would hate for them to go bad, because there is no way I am going to eat 11 eggs in one day!

Chris has decided that he would like some chickens that lay blue and green eggs, so he put me on the look out for hatching eggs. We have an incubator, mine as well use it! Chris' friend found a guy close by that sells the blue eggs for hatching rather inexpensively, so I am trying to get his information so I can pick some up. He also has turkey eggs and peacock eggs. I would really like some fresh turkey this year so after the chicken eggs I will get some turkey eggs from him. Peacocks are an interesting idea and I would like to have some, but I think I am going to need to wait on them until I can get more area cleared away. 

I was able to sell Ash and Midnight today, a nice man from Pilot Mountain is purchasing them together as pets. He will be picking them up in a few weeks when they are closer to being weaned. I was also able to see my left over eggs this afternoon, so it was a pretty productive day! 

We found out that we will be having family down for Easter, which will be very exciting. It also means that we need to get working on the Barn lay out so the guys can get cracking on getting it started. We also need to get going on the barn so we can get more goats! We are running out of room in our shack at night. 

I started planting my seeds inside today, I have tomatoes, okra and scallion currently started and will start the majority next month. I need to have my garden space enlarged and turned up so when the warm weather hits I am ready to go. 

So as you can see things here have been busy busy busy. We never stop moving since there is always something to build! (or a goat that needs so love!)