Some of our critters

Murphy

Gus and March

Well the day after my gloomy one was much better. The sun was out and my mood was so much better but I was still a little tired feeling. So I decided to take some pictures of some of our critters.

Murphy is one of our roosters that one of our hens hatched. He is pretty friendly to us but of course to the other chickens he feels he is the king. He is one of the chickens that when it is cold stays in the calf barn. They have a coop in there but in the day they run free around the barn and when it is warm they run outside. Well he has a couple of sons that run with him and sometimes I find them jammed in between hay bales hiding from "the king".

Then there is Gus and March our nubian goats. I can't wait because March is due to kid at the end of April. These will be our first baby goats. We are hoping to expand and get a couple more female goats and hopefully March will have some. Knowing my luck though they will be boys. We have a friend keeping an eye out for us, in fact tonight was the annual lamb and goat sale and she went there so she said she would see what was there. Hopefully she can find one but right now they go high and we don't want to spend a fortune. I will keep my fingers crossed.

I was trying to take a picture of one of my cats Horatio but he would not cooperate and I did not like any of the pictures. He is my favorite, momma's baby! He was a kitten in the barn and at first wouldn't even let us get close to him but I was persisant and eventually he became my buddy. He is a long haired cat and as a kitten he looked like a ball of fluff running around. Well he got so friendly he would come under the cows when I was milking and want to be pet. I couldn't shoo him away for anything and I thought one of us will get kicked if he does that under certain cows so we both gave Dad the puppy dog eyes and he got to come in the house. Now he comes in and out but doesn't bug me under the cows anymore. Maybe I will get a good one when he is in the house, I was trying outside.

Well the hubby made a deal with me that he would take my egg washing duty tonight if I would make him some bread. There is an italian herb one that he just loves but I make it in the bread machine so I think I got the better end of the bargain. So off to making bread.