Farmy Update

Chicks: We have been having a lot of fun holding and watching our little chicks grow. They now have some feathers on their wings and some on their tails. We had a sad sight this evening, I went to check on them and found one of our Red Rangers lifeless in the brooder. They had all seemed fine all day so it was a shock to see it's stiff little body. Our first animal death, my heart still feels sad and aches about it, and I can't help wondering if it was something I did. But I'm trying to focus on the rest of them, keeping them healthy and enjoying their little peeps and pecks.

 I'm predicting Geo will be an Ameracauna

 And pumpkin too

 

Nick Nack's wing feathers look pretty cool

 

 A box full of sleepy chicks

"Helping" around the house: Chloe and Blain have been helping me with dishes, vacuuming, laundry and picking up around the house. That might be why the house is in a state of disaster. Whenever I try to do some housecleaning that's what they decide to do too and nothing gets finished. All well, who needs a clean house when you have cute kids, right?

 Of course they both need a sink full of bubbles to wash in

Playtime with Daddy: I got some cute pictures of the babies playing with Nate today while we waited for dinner to cook. Nate cooked up some flank steak from his deer and it was DELICIOUS.

 Real smiles from daddy tickling Chloe

 Cute yet mischievous smile

They were standing on stools, making weird noises and rolling their arms to be funny so Daddy would "get" them.

Betty: She is getting a lot nicer to me and Nate but still apprehensive towards Chloe and Blain - although she seems to be curious about Avenlea. I was holding her the other day and Betty stuck her head through the fence, smelled her and tried to lick her 3 times.

I've walked Betty in the pasture twice now with both times going relatively smoothly. The first was a rodeo trying to catch her, I eventually gave her some hay after getting dragged around the corral a couple times and still not getting the lead rope on her. She walked ok but wanted to run quite a bit so we did lots of loops to turn her around, slow her down and end with me in front (saying "slow" as we turn - Nate's technique) I had to pull on her quite a bit to get her to walk back towards her pen but overall better than I expected.

Today when I walked her again I brought some grain and got the lead rope on her with no problem. She didn't try to charge the gate to get out in front of me and only got a little antsy when we reached the back fence near our neighbor's beef cows, which were bucking and running around so I don't really blame her. She let me pet her as we walked and came with only slight tugging to change direction or head back to her pen. It was a nice 20 minute walk.