Here are Bristol and Drake on a lazy after noon laying in the sun....
We put our tree up and took a couple pictures of our fat baby!
She is starting to sit up pretty good and is rolling over.
I am down to 9 guineas from the 17 I started with. I think this Bald Eagle might be part of the reason. I found a couple piles of feathers in a clearing by the road the other day. It looks like they are getting attacked when they go out in the open. As I have read in other places the dumbest guineas die first and the remaining "smart" ones that can survive that first year can teach the future generation how to stay alive. So hopefully we will get babies in the spring and we will have guineas that know the how to stay alive.
Our Turkeys have gotten bigger and have become my favorite addition. They are having a hard time learning to return to their house at night but I think that's my fault because I have moved them a couple time to new homes. They are now in the old Dog/Goat/guinea pen. I have given up getting the guineas to go back inside their pen at night. Instead the guineas sleep on top of it. Back to the Turkeys....They have started to Strut and Gobble which is a lot of fun to hear. They never leave the yard and they have gotten along with the dogs and other animals great. I did loose 1 Turkey but it died in it's pen so I'm not sure what happened to it. It looks like I ended up with 3 Toms and 1 Hen.
The day before Hurricane Sandy arrived My dad and I built this goat pen in the front woods. It is 45x35 ft and they really seem to like it.
Who's they? I just realized I never posted about Lavern and Shirley. After BAMBAM died Pebbles was very lonely and was depressed. So we found a lady with Nigerian Dwarf babies and we got 2 does about 3 months old. They are about 5 months now. We were hoping since pebbles and BAMBAM weren't the most friendly goats that these would be better since they are younger but it hasn't been going to good. They aren't too bad and will come up to the fence and aren't scared of you but if you try to pet them they run off. So we will just keep trying to make them like us through food....
The new pen has a bunch of logs and hills in it that the goats love to play on. I also built this little hut out of some pallets and scrap lumber form our wood milling.
As you can see here Pebbles is VERY pregnant!
This past weekend we finally split and stacked a few oak and poplar trees that have been laying around for a while.
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