Good bye Goats

Its been a hard week on our farm. We lost 2 goats and the top picture is Larry he is not doing so good. They had got in our feed part of the barn and gorged themselves. Brian burried 2 today and hopefully a miracle will happen and Larry will be ok. I know its silly to be so attached to animals I am sure to some, but not me I cried. I was very attached to Rona the one with her baby in the picture. She and I grew a bond. I can't hardly post this with out choking up.
Opie the baby goat is now old enough thank the Lord to eat on his own and I also bottle raised him. But he tried to jump in the hole with his momma. Brian said. He still cries. We have 4 goats left or at least healthy ones. Just sick by this.

Family Time-good times with dad

We took a day just to have fun together and work together having fun. We blew up balloons and we are paper macheing them. We had a fun time. Clean up is fun since its a glue it dries quick! They are hanging on our back porch drying now. Some will be filled with candy and I may decorate mine to hang in a room. Who knows...I recommend it. But have the clean up stuff ready for when your done. Anyone can do it with simple flower and water and something to use as a mold shape :) You can make maraca's and more.

I got followers

My ducks are so neat. They follow me wherever I go. This weekend one of our mallards layed an egg. Neat color. Should have taken a picture of it. One of the dogs trampled over it and put it in their mouth so we took it. Darn :( Ducks are a wonderful animal to have. We love ours.

Harvesting Animals

Sat we harvested (killed) a few turkeys and roosters. Freezer has food so we are thankful for the harvest! We had 1 25 pd turkey, 1 20 pd turkey and 2 15 pd turkeys. We also butchered 2 roosters. It was work but rewarding. Probably gross to a some people but its better to be farm raised then the ones you buy in the store. Ours have never had hormones like store ones. Taking the life of something is not easy but its something we must do to eat. So you do it. The animal feeds us. We know it sacrificed its life to feed us and appreciate and thank God for it.