kittenmmm's blog post - The Mini Guins/Farm Update

A while back I said our Guinea Fowl had hatched some chicks. Funny little buggers seem to actually be doing a pretty good job parenting them and they're still running around en masse. They're really funny to watch...they remind me of Pikman (the video game)in the way they move.


They're tough little buggers to catch on film because they never stop moving but I did manage to get a couple of decent shots.


On another note the pigs finally had to be moved into an electrified pen. Just about every morning one week we would find them outside somewhere. One morning was under my window in my flower garden, then on the side of the house, etc.., Last Friday I had to go looking for them. They were down the street eating chestnuts that had fallen from a neighbor's tree. Big Pig's a good girl and just goes back when you tell her to go home but the three little ones are devils. They wanted no part of it. I had to chase them back whacking a stick on the ground around them the whole way.

Baby, aka Escape Artist, now has her own little pen. She refused to stay with the other goats and kept getting out to roam the neighbor's yard. After she ate all her ornamental plants and half her vegetable garden, we had to keep her locked in the barn. That wasn't really good for her either so we finally put up a pen under one of the apple trees. She even has a little "house" in there.

Something's been getting my chickens. My best guess would be one of the foxes or maybe even a coyote. They just disappear. So, we've got another hatch going to help boost the troops again. Such are the hazards of free range chickens....that and trying to find where they laid their damn eggs.

My goats need some hoof work done but I've lost my stanchions so it's damn hard for me to work on them now. They need hoof trimmings but the loss of the stanchions and the dry weather means that I'll have to have my husband trim. I won't be able to cut through their hooves with my trimmers because I just don't have that hand strength. So they'll be limping for a while. Maybe I'll put my visitor to work when he gets here. What a vacation..go to New England to see the sites and get to work on a farm instead. Don't worry Lunna, I won't do that to you when you get here!