Barefoot Hillbilly Wife to a Redneck......

Went a little Pic crazy!!!

It is Simply life....... Its been busy around here lately! I have been sick and the girls have been too. My middle DD had pneumonia and I have ear infection. I have tried everything natural and finally gave in and went to a regular doctor well its not working either...

So anyway we have had babies like crazy we are up to 8 lambs, 4 calves and 5 goat kids. Girl to boy ratio is high on the girl side!! Lol Of course I seem to influence that having 3 girls! Lol Anyway I have 3 bottle babies and we did lose a little lamb that was so small or it would have been 9 lambs..

 We also have geese now.. I have pictures of everything and my farm girls!! it was 60* yesterday and 34* today.. big difference and its COLD!!!

Here they are in the pond!.......

Little fluffy butts!! lol........

Here are the 3 bottle babies in confinement!! Lol They are now outside and think they are so very mistreated!!! They cry for attention!

Here are the bottle babies. Thinking they are still horribly mistreated to be outside.

The twins exploring while mom was trying to get the puppies food!!!

Look at those Bellies!!! The black one is on the left is grandma to the little buck born a couple of weeks ago that was so colorful. The other is one of the Boers here.

Smug little bottle Sheep Fiona!! She played the "I am tired" card and got carried up the hill when we went to take pics and check on the pregnant mommas.

Here are the twin boys and momma............

Bottle Babies helping!!! Lol We took them out with us today. So they were out of their little world.. It was alittle scary for them at first and we couldnt get to far from them. I am debating on selling them now or waiting......

Our Jr. buck Caspian. I thought his silhouette was cute with his little beard. He wont have as impressive horns as his sire due to breaking the one off last fall. But he is cute one.

The new babies. The boy is in front the girl hiding. He doesn't have anything on his mouth its little black spots or freckles! Lol His mom has them too but they are not as dark.

Babies again!....... I couldn't catch the other boy from the triplets in a pic.

My Full Blooded Nubian's April and Hope. They have about a month to 6 weeks to go before babies. April gets HUGE!!!

Here is Handsome!! He was licking my hand and I tried to get a pic of him with his tongue hanging out but he was to quick! He was all lovey today and enjoying the scratches around his ears. it took washing my hand Several times to get his "cologne" off of me! PEEEUUUU

One of the Muscovy's that May be a boy.... I don't know...... I have given up trying to figure it out!! Lol I guess when they start laying eggs I will know!!

Our geese. I forgot to say before they are Toulouse Geese! They make me think of the Disney movie Aristocats.

They were making all kinds of noise here. They stay at the pond though so not annoying to hear all the time.

The one in the middle was getting a little upset with me. I am not sure why except maybe they were expecting food!

The ducks sunning on the pond bank..

Cows were soaking up the rays too!! Hey its January we don't complain about sunshine!! Especially warm sunshine!!!

My 2 remaining silkie hens. to think I started out with a bunch of them.. Well okay 6 white ones 2 years ago and 6 black ones this last year. The cats took out some of my first white silkies and then the dog and the nest box falling took all but these 2....... I love them though.

The 2 black silkie roosters, the hen and behind them, the little Ameracuana banty(Wild Woman!) She is crazy.

Bottle babies, LGD puppies, The little Hobo, and 2 of my farm girls!

And we wonder why the bottle babies think they are human.....

One Farm Girl got caught taking her socks off!!! The rule is they can go out in long sleeves but no jacket on days like this but They must have socks on with their boots or slip ons. This kid always sneaks out with out the socks, or the jacket or "loses" them like she has here!!!

Another farm girl with the bottle babies and the dogs! Relaxing in the hammock soaking up that sun!!!

 

Fluffing' up and settling in for the night. These boys either escaped the butchers block or weren't big enough to begin with. The ones we wont for breeding are with the hens and they do a good job of keeping these boys away. Even though some of the hens do escape the roos in the barn and make it up the yard to visit these boys!! Lol

Here is our puny dog... The vet said it was probably something she ate but its not worms or anything like that.. SO that's good...

Here is Hobo one of the little strays that come up. We live by a dog pound/humane society and people drop dogs off all the time. She is so ugly she is cute.. She is also our alarm if anyone pulls up outside or twitches or wiggles!!!Lol

Here is a few of them last night.The twins and one of the singles.

One days eggs. They weren't laid in there I forgot to take a can with me so confiscated a food dish filled with hay to carry them back to the house. I am getting anywhere from a 12-20 a day not bad for winter time..

This is them finishing off the centers of the round bales. I thought the little goat there looking at the other was cute!! I will have to take a picture of the hay "racks" now that they have new bales in them... The only thing I have a problem with is the younger goats (9 months to about 2 years) can get their horns stuck in them. They reach to far in at a certain angle and then try to pull back and get stuck!!

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09:11 PM, Saturday, January 10, 2009 .. Posted by heritagehill

Love the pictures! Hope you get to feeling better real soon.
The Muscovy looks like a male, they are pretty easy to tell at a few months old by size. The males all of a sudden are twice the size of the females.
A friend of mine tried the panels around the hay bales like you have, she had a time with that because it was so hard to squeeze the panels up tight with the loose hay around the bottom. I don't know if that made sense? But do you have any trouble with them?
Marilyn