More Kids!
Speckles had her kids on Tuesday. She had twins, a boy and a girl. I had to help get the boy out, his one front leg was back instead of coming out together with his other front leg. The little girl slipped out easily. Spot and Brownie are their names. Now there are seven kids all together out there. Dottie, my 10 year old dairy doe is due to have her kids on Monday, but I’m hoping they come on Sunday so I can go to town on Monday. Plus then I’d have Easter babies.
We woke up to 4 inches of snow on Wednesday. Lucky didn’t like the snow. He took one look and smell of it and started yelling and went back to his little kid house. That was cute. Mocha liked it, she was out bouncing around all over the place in it. The others didn’t really like it, but they accepted it. They are all so tiny, the snow was knee deep on them.
It is snowing a bit tonight. I hope we don’t get very much accumulation. I am ready for Spring. The grass is turning green, and there are a few flowers starting to pop up out of the ground.
The rest of the kids will be born between the 10th and the 20th of this month. Then there is Molly, who got in with Rusty and will probably have a kid around July 1st. I was just congratulating myself on no accidental pregnancies this time, when I went out the next morning and here was Molly in Rusty’s pen, with both of them looking pretty pleased with themselves.
There are 7 eggs in the turkey’s nest box, and there is a broody chicken hen in the chicken house setting on 5 eggs. So we should have baby chicks around the 21st of this month. Hopefully one of the turkey hens will start setting one of these days. Then we will have turkeys big enough to eat by Thanksgiving.
The Red-tailed hawks are back. It must really be spring now! They were circling around here today, looking for easy pickings. They didn’t get anything, so they left. The turkeys have really sharp eyesight and can see those birds way up in the sky. They sound the alarm and everyone pays attention and the chickens go hide in their house or under the brush and trees in their pen. As long as they all stay alert, we shouldn’t lose any this year.
That’s all for now. More as it happens……….
