So, now who’s going to donate money to the Yakape fund?
For laughs and other news:
The kids wanted to wish you a wonderful Easter! (the little one in the green sweatshirt is a cousin!)
Thomas wanted to remind everyone to remove the shell BEFORE eating your eggs!
Also, don’t forget chocolate easter bunnies are DELICIOUS!
Shreya just celebrated her 4th birthday! She wanted you to know that blowing out candles and singing the Happy Birthday song several times in a row is much better than just once!
We wanted to welcome Little Timmy to the farm! He’s born on his big Uncle Timmy’s birthday. Maybe on Uncle Timmy’s 36th birthday we can eat Little Timmy for dinner! Also pictured is Lambkin. She’s our new orphan ewe Hannah is bottle raising. She follows the kids around just like Mary.
THIS is why I prefer hairsheep to wool sheep! This ewe is sporting a new haircut now. It looks a bit like mange. Sorry old girl, but it’s better than the freezer!
The twins are growing quite large! Rambo has lived up to his name as THE hardest animal to catch on the farm. Mario is going to have to get used to his name now that it’s finally decided.
Snickers is due to kid yet. She is quite large. I am betting on triplets this time. She appears to be ready any moment and keeps making bug-eyed lamaze breathing faces at us.
Snickers will leave you with the final word of advice for the day- always chew your food well!
Friday March 27th 2009, 6:10 pm
Filed under: Goats
Well, the animals think it’s spring, but Kansas thinks it’s still winter. It’s windy and cold and there have been flurries all day. The sky looks heavy with snow and it feels a bit ominous out there. We may end up with goats or sheep in the house if it gets too bad!
Our first baby of 2009- “Starbucks!” He was born to Java March 26th out in the pasture!
He sure has gorgeous markings. Too bad he’s a HE! Don’t you just want to kiss him?
This morning, March 27th, Sarai shocked us with TWINS!
This is “Rambo.” He’s a ram, and his father’s name was Boaz (and nearly rammed Willy to death). So, there you have it! “RAMBO!”
This is “Little Holstein,” for obvious reasons.
Although, we could call him Mario, Pedro, Uncle Ricco, Nacho, or many other names with that go along with a really bad mustache….
HAPPY SPRING EVERYONE!
Spring isn’t spring here without baby animals. I don’t know how you city folk do it…
Friday August 29th 2008, 2:49 pm
Filed under: Goats, Kids
Recently one night at about 11pm I heard a ruckus in the barn. Goliath was barking an “alert” bark. I looked out the window and saw all the goats and sheep outside the barn curiously looking in. I ran outside expecting to find a predator in the barn of some sort. When I finally got the light on, I found a little baby goat bleating up at me. Snickers had just given birth to a surprise kid for us! We didn’t even know she was expecting! Say hello to Therman!
We all get a kick out of how little goats only have teeth on the bottom. Here is Hannah fooling around with Whippy and showing off her dentures.
Here they ALL are joining in the fun. I can’t believe even Thomas made a “goat teeth” impression. HILARIOUS!
I thought I’d better finish up introducing you to the new critters on the farm. There are so many it took two blog updates!
Remember Pansy? She was the 1 1/2 pound baby goat born to Snickers in the spring. We’ve had a few people ask for an update on her. Well, she’s still small, but she’s growing. We have to lock her up at night so an owl won’t get her. That is, until we bring home Goliath.
Here’s Goliath. He’s our new guardian for the does, ewes, kids, lambs and chickens. We have two barns and pasture areas that are separate from each other. Sampson, our Great Pyrenees guards the buck pen. We tried moving him to the doe pen because they are more vulnerable to predators, but he won’t go. He loves his stinky bucks too much. So, we are bringing home Goliath, an Anatolian puppy, next week. He’ll be the new guardian for the does. His face markings make him look menacing enough that the coyotes will leave our babies alone, don’t you think?
Meet Buttons. She is new on our farm this spring. She’s a Boer x Kiko doe. She was a nuisance at her old house because she could escape any pen. She liked to wait at the front door or on the driveway for her owner to get home. She would eat all the flowers at her old house. She also liked to climb trees and perch on the branches like a bird. Why do I bring home the nuisance animals? I don’t know. I really don’t know.
This is Java. She came from Osceola, Missouri. She is an Alpine x Toggenburg doe. She is the only goat I have that has wattles. I love wattles on goats. Yes, wattles- like what are on chickens sort of. They are long fleshy appendages under their chin. Most people cut them off of their goats, but we like our goats au naturel. She keeps her wattles and Snickers keeps her beard. It doesn’t make them any less beautiful, does it?
This is Ruth. We got her last summer. She’s all grown up now and should have her own lambs this fall. She’s looking a little bedraggled these days as all the animals are. They are shedding out their winter coat. She’s a hair sheep. She is the namesake for my good friend. I’m sure she appreciates having a ewe named after her.
This is another hair sheep we have named Sarai. I love her oranges spots and one black knee. How cool is that? She’s a lamb born this winter. She was a bottle baby and so tame. I love this lamb. I saw her and impulsively bought her. We hauled her home in the front seat of our van after a grocery trip in Topeka. Hannah gets to hold all my animals when I have no cage. The poor girl has been peed and poo’d on so many times she doesn’t even care anymore.
These two darling lambs were another impulse purchase on a different trip to the same farm I got Sarai from. I really have to stop going there. They were skinny and starving as their mother had mastitis and could not feed them. The owner said, “I GUESS I have to feed them a bottle, I don’t know. If you want them, you can have them for $20 each.” It was the “I guess I have to feed them” part that made be want to take them home. We love bottle babies anyway. They make nicer pets.
Here is our Dark Brahma rooster and some of his harem. We bought them as chicks last September. My how they’ve grown. We are getting at least 2 dozen eggs a day right now from the hens. They are quite the bunch of biddies. They were busy gossiping here when I so rudely interrupted them with my camera. I wonder what they said about me when I left?
The most recent addition to the farm are these chicks. They are just hours out of the shell and still in the incubator. They appear to be silkie crosses. Spring is not quite spring anymore without chicks.
