I was going to write my posts on food related topics, however, there are so many things going on at the farm that I have decided to branch out!
Since the turkey deaths and the general feeling of dying during the fall season, spring has brought lots of life back to our farm. When I say spring, I am really meaning since January! We arrived back from our Christmas vacation to 100 baby chicks that arrived in the mail. We are living in the attic of the dorms so the chick’s bulb heated home was directly below our apartment. Synova and I had so much fun grabbing chicks in our hands, holding them next to our warm bodies and running up to her bedroom to play. We played games like skateboarding chicky, chicky rides on a school bus and chicky makes a new friend – strawberry shortcake!
Enjoy the video of skateboarding chicky…
Only weeks after the chicks arrived, the goats started giving birth to kid goats. It was very exciting to meet these wobbly-wet-“Bambi” looking creatures. Synova and I were able to watch a goat give birth to twins. The first one came out normally – head and front hooves first but the second one came out breech. I have a video of the breech birth. It came out quickly so the video is short and I cut the video off before you can see the little goat get up…oops.
We have a two herding dogs to protect our herd of goats and one of the dogs gave birth to seven puppies. She was very protective and did not let people go near her young for quite some time. Once we finally could visit them, Synova fell in love. She fell hard for the white puppy whose name is Zoey. She would literally carry this puppy all over the farm. The funny thing is the puppy totally let her! One time Synova was running with the dog in her arms and tripped; she fell, the dog went flying and neither on of them made a fuss. We did however, come up with a new rule of not running while you carry a dog!
The most recent addition to our farm was the arrival of five piglets. They were just weaned before arriving on our farm and are already approximately 50 lbs! We have purchased a quarter of a pig and have named him “Pigger”. I think we will butcher them sometime in July. So far it has been lots of fun to bring our food scraps and watch them fight over the mush. Synova cannot decide if she will eat the Pigger or not.
Here are a couple pictures of our baby bunnies and baby ducks.
2 comments:
My goodness, Synova has gotten so big! How wonderful that she gets to grow up on a farm with all the baby animals being born, and learning a lot about life and death at a young age.
Spring is definitely one of my favorite times on the farm as well! In fact, we just got a new batch of chicks today :) It's so exciting to see Synova growing up before my eyes, and her love for all animals. Her carrying the puppy was priceless!
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