More new additions

So I have been looking for some Turkeys for a long time. I have debated hatching eggs or buying chicks. The chicks were expensive from the hatchery and I think you have to buy 30 at a time. The eggs were a better deal but I have never hatched eggs and I didn't have an incubator(I do now....more on that another day.) This past weekend the was an animal sale at Gilmanor Farms. They have this twice a year. We went in the spring but didn't see anything we needed. This time was different. We were looking for a kid goat and the Turkeys. I was specifically looking for bourbon reds. I found some turkeys that were 5 months old. The lady selling them offered a deal if I took all 5 she had so of course I did.

For now they are in the Barn Tractor until I can build a house for them.

Here are the bantams again. They are still hanging out in the old guinea tractor. I tried letting them out the other day but the dogs were way too interested in them. I don't know why they couldn't care less about the guineas or the other chickens. We will keep working at it.

So since we didn't find any goats we wanted at the sale we went online when we got home. We search and called everywhere but never did find what we were really looking for. We wanted something 6 months or less that way a Pygmy or dwarf. I ended up calling a local petting zoo that has tons of goats. They had some ranging from 6 months and up. We decided to pick based on looks and ended up with the Nigerian Dwarfs.

They are very pretty but not so comfortable with us yet. We have been slowly working with them to get them used to us. It doesn't help that the dogs think they are dogs too and want to play with them through the fence. I took the old dog kennel that was 10x20 that the guineas have been staying in and turned it into 2 10x10 kennels. The guineas get half and the goats get half until I can build them a play yard in the woods.

It has also been about 2 weeks now of letting the guineas out everyday and so far I not lost any and they all have returned to their pen every night. It may take a little corralling but they make it back pretty easily.