Let the hatching begin!

We had our first set of eggs hatch this week. Out of 14 eggs we have 3 frizzle chicks and 3 Easter Egger chicks. There are 4 eggs that appear to be duds and 4 that have potential to hatch (fingers crossed). Here the cute little peeps are!

Our hatch schedule is as follows: 

Hatch #2 - Tuesday April 14 - Easter Eggers

Hatch #3-Thursday April 16 - Easter Eggers

Hatch #4- Friday April 24 - Silkies :)

I have yet more eggs to place in the incubator, next week I set 20+ bantam cochins, and May 13 I set Turkeys and more chicken eggs! Our bator and hatcher will be busy for the next few months. 

We are working on building more coops, siding the buck barn and building a new goat barn. I am also going out next week to get a new bucking, someone unrelated who will make great babies with my ladies! 

Oh we did have some good news, Ariana and Willow are doing wonderfully with the Seats. They love jumping on the baby calves! Just like a goat always leaping around! It is always nice to hear how the babies do when the leave. 

Have a happy Easter everyone!

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!