About Last Night

Last night Sara woke me up at 1230 and wanted to go outside, she always wants to go outside when there is snow. The problem was that no matter what I did she would not come back in! I tried calling her and bribing her with a dog bone but she would not leave the yard. I finally had to get dressed and go out in the 20 degree weather and drag her in. I was not happy with her, and I couldn't figure out why she was acting so strange.


This morning I went outside to take the kids to school and discovered that the 2 rams were out of their enclosure and loose in the yard. Apparently the Commander didn't secure the latch to their area after feeding them last night and they escaped.

Seems that Sara tried to tell me last night but I didn't understand her.


Thankfully the boys didn't wander into the road or off into the woods, they hung around trying to figure out how to get in with the girls.


I needed to get them back into their pen, but how? I used the "magic" green grain bucket of course.

Just add a handful of grain to the bucket and then shake it, the noise is guaranteed to get goats, sheep, chickens, and even guinea's to follow like you were the Pied Piper of Hamelin.

The boys followed the bucket back to their pen and were safely put away. The Commander is going to get a lesson in "closing the gate" later.

Sara has been giving me the "I tried to tell you" look all day.

What Did I Say?

"Mocha May, leave that chicken alone she has a broken leg."

Never in a million years would I ever have imagined that I would utter those words. When the Commander heard me say that he just laughed!

The chicken is doing better and is hopping around in the kennel, I have hopes that she will pull through.

Snow Dog

"Did someone say Let's go outside?" Sara LOVES the snow!



Sara loves to catch snowballs. (Faith wanted to see posts of a snowball fight!)


She is so acrobatic, and when the snow gets deeper she will burrow down into it and tunnel like a mole.


Gidget has had enough of the snow and wants to go back inside, NOW!


Sara on the other hand refuses to come in, and lays down in hopes I won't get the Commander to carry her in. "It's the most wonderful time of the year...."

Good Morning Winter

We awoke this morning to a Winter Wonder Land!


The Guineas spent the night outside the coop and I was worried about how they survived the snow so I was relieved to see the first one peeking out at me.


A flock of Guineas on top of the Coop. I put some scratch out for them under the coop, I hope they find it.


Sara LOVES the snow, we can't keep her inside. She blends right in with the Birch trees.


The sheep are not at all excited to see the snow.


The snow was so heavy that we had to walk the fence lines to make sure no damage had been done.


Several of my Birch trees couldn't handle the weight.


There are a lot of broken branches that will need to be cleaned up.


It sure is beautiful outside, so long as I don't have to drive.

Silent Night

Winter storm watch tonight, 5-9" of snow expected.


The snow was so heavy that the netting over the chicken coop tore away, so with complete freedom available the guineas chose to sleep outside for the night.


The snow is wet and heavy and is sticking to everything, it is so beautiful outside.

Injured Chicken!

When I got home today we found one of my beautiful chickens was laying injured amongst the leaves in the goat pen. She was limping on her good leg and then burrowing into the leaves. It was nice to see that one of her sisters refused to leave her side.


We brought her inside and examined her, it looked like she had a puncture wound and a possible broken leg. I put some neo-sporin on the open wound and gave her some chicken electrolytes with a bit of aspirin mixed in.


I didn't have any tongue depressors to use as a splint so I substituted some card stock as a replacement.


The card stock was covered with some vet wrap to hold it in place.


The chicken has been moved inside to Sara's kennel to see how she does. I read that injured chickens are attacked by their coop mates, I'm not sure if that is true but I don't want to take any chances.

I'm not sure if a chicken can survive a broken/injured leg, but I hope so.

Sara wants her kennel back and Patch, Mocha, and Chai Chai are very interested in our visitor, but they had better get used to it as the kennel may have to house kids and/or lambs this Spring.

I Smiled all the way Home

I picked up Addison and Becca Boo after the breeder called and told me to expect "kids" around April Fools day. They were a bit stinky after having spent a week with a handsome buck, but I was so happy to have them home.


Addison checked out the barn to make sure nothing had changed, now that the Queen is home things have to be just so.


Becca Boo seemed very happy to be home but she was so dirty. I had to take a few baby wipes to clean up her white fur.


Chip was so excited that he started to make his strange noises and clicking sounds to get the girls attention. Everyone had to reestablish the "pecking" order so Chip immediately challenged Addison and Becca for dominance. Addison ended up as Queen again, once that was established the others calmed down.


I saw blood on Becca's head and was worried until I realized it had come from Chips scurs. If I hadn't read about Reggie's scurs over at Critter Farm I would have been mortified. I cleaned the blood of Becca's head and put some blood stop and neosporin on Chip and everyone is one big happy family again, until April 1st!