Okay not really the FARMING life... or a really big farm... but, I just thought I'd share some pictures of my small hobby farm and all my critters who I love so much
(We call them 'lovestock', not 'livestock'.) We started the farm because we bought a house kind of out in the country on a small piece of land and realized we basically bought a chestnut farm. We have something like 28 chestnut trees on the property. We also raise chickens, turkey, geese, and 2 goats. The birds are mainly for egg production, and incubation in the spring, and the goats are just pests. Oops did I type pests... I meant pets... no, I was right, I meant pests.
So I have like a bazillion pix but here are some that I actually had a chance to upload to photobucket...
This is Jive turkey. He's our star on the farm. He's the absolute nicest, funniest turkey in the world. He's a Royal Palm - on the American Heritage Breed Conservancy list. He just follows you around all day and hangs out outside. When you laugh, he gobbles. He's quite funny. We love him.
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loginThis little guy is named after one of the new FIM ponies - Drama Pony! He's a silkie chicken... and he's really a funny little guy. I don't know how he sees out of those feathers on his head!
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loginHere is a shot of part of our gaggle of geese. This is when the young ones were still small! Now they're all huge! And so noisy! We have American Buff geese, Tolouse, Chinese Crested, White Chinese Crested and some mixies. There are also 2 drakes who hang out in with the geese. They have no idea they're ducks and not geese, and the geese don't seem to notice either!
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loginHere's another shot of some of the ducks and geese:
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loginThis is Qui-Lo - my male Chinese Crested purebred. He's hilarious - and acts as a sentry for the rest of the group. Sadly, he has no mate yet (though I know some of the young ones - none of which are related to him - are female, so he has a chance yet!)
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loginThese two goofy creatures are the dogs
Sorta farm dogs, they're inside dogs... Quorra (blue heeler mix) and Spencer (lab).
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loginJive struttin' his stuff (this was before his tail feathers all grew back in, he's practically perfect now!)
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loginOur two goats - AnnaBelle and Felicity - known more commonly as Annie and Feli (Annie - white, Feli - brown, Feli is Annies daughter)
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loginThis was the first duckling we ever hatched here from our own flock - his name is Lucky, he's still around today, and he still eat out of my hands.
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loginThis is Redbird - our Leghorn Rooster. The first bird we EVER got. Red is an old roo now...
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loginAnd a picture of some of the chickens:
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loginOkay sorry for cluttering up the wall but posting this but I just thought I'd share. I love taking pics of the animals (haven't done so in the winter, need to get out there), and I just love sharing what I've learned about them, etc, from living here so far.
Don't know what the point of this post was really other than an excuse to share some pictures of farm animals, hehe
But I'll share knowledge I have too if anyone wants to know, lol! (I'm no expert by any means!)