Farm Life

Our little farm has been growing again.

Our best brooder hatched out one chick a couple weeks ago, and then a week later, adopted nine chicks that we hatched in an incubator. Surprised us that she took them in so easily, but it makes it so much easier for us to take care of the chicks.

Then last week, we had another hen hatch out four more chicks (she hatched three earlier this spring). We're up seventeen chicks this year and we added a beautiful Black Copper Maran rooster.

The third of our goats had her kid.

That birth was another first for me. Baby decided to come out nose first instead of feet first, so I had to help mama birth the shoulders.

We have one more mama goat waiting to give birth. In one year our little herd of three goats has grown to nine!

Our rabbits continue to give us cute little babies. We're waiting on two of them to have kits right now.

I wish I could say that our garden was growing as well as our animals, but I can't. With all the rain we've been getting, the garden is soaked. The plants haven't been washed away, but they haven't been growing as quickly as they should.  Hopefully we'll dry out soon =)

We've Been Busy...

The summer has once again flown by.  And we've been pretty busy.

We took a trip to the Tulsa Zoo.

Squish got into a bit of a sticky situation ;)

A pic of the kids in the rain forest area.  My parents traveled to Peru to see the Mayan ruins and we just went to Tulsa.

The farm has been growing...

Six new baby chicks.  We now have 33 chickens (and 3 ducks).

We've had 2 litters of bunnies...  11 kits between the two.  This is a picture of Spot.  We'll be keeping this one =)

Progress has been made on the house.

Now the hard part (for us)- filling in the walls with cordwood...  But first we need to chop down and debark a bunch of trees =)

Girly made her first quilt.

I finished up a cardigan.  Now to wait for winter so I can wear it =)

Growing Again...

The last couple weeks have been busy.  We've welcomed a few new additions to the farm.

Three Pygmy goats came last week.  The kids named them: Billy (goat) Madison, Mary Poppins and Nanny McPhee.

We also had a hen that hatched out 8 chicks.

They're a cute little bunch.  Little fluff balls running around in the brooder.  In a few weeks they'll be joining the juvenile delinquents we hatched out after Easter.

Three of them hiding in the brush and eating bugs.

We getting closer to our goal of being self- sustaining around here.  The only thing we haven't been too successful at is getting our garden going.  But, that will take time.  It's hard to get the gardens going when the soil is rocks and clay =)