This week is DH's family vacation. They rent a lake house in our town for a week every year. We've been away a lot, but things keep on going at the farm!!!
The lambs arrived Monday and Tuesday nights. Each ewe had one lamb. We have a ewe lamb (keeper, now named Avalon) and a ram lamb (for the freezer). The babies are doing well. The ewe who had hers first (Ava) has been bullying the other ewe's lamb (meat boy) by knocking it into the barn gutter. So we put the younger lamb (meat boy) and Momma (Isabella) into a lambing pen again. I hope we can get the flock all together soon!
A predator got our rooster.
DH bought live traps! We suspect raccoons again. We have 6 adult hens left and DH has started locking them in the coop. It's so funny to watch them follow him to the coop at night, looking like baby ducks following their momma!
The RIR baby chicks are free ranging during the day and eating a combination of food scraps, dog food, and starter crumbles. They are fully feathered and half-size now. The 2 barnyard mix chicks we hatched from fertile eggs from a friend are living in a big dog crate and slowly taming.
My rabbit colony plan has come together. I have 2 pens, both 4 x 6 feet. 2 girls in one side, and a buck in the other. I have to sweep it out every other day. I have been scrubbing the cement too while they're figuring out litterboxes. The girls are peeing in the litterbox MOST of the time now. The buck... not so much. I have indoor / outdoor carpet to put down for them to help protect the cement and give the rabbits a softer surface. I intend to make/find some boxes and things for them to climb on and nest in.
The quack grass is winning in the garden. :/
