A beautiful Tuesday morning!

Our 'day off'

Monday is our day off although its also chore time, catch up on laundry time, clean the pens time.... Here are a few pictures from taking our time enjoying our chores this morning!

Hanging with the kids!

The turkeys have transitioned to the garden

Requirements for living in the garden are being too fat to fly and to big for a cat to go after. They all pass and are loving their freedom!

Two new eggs hatched today!

One will be tiger striped and the other is calico mix

Still in their eggs nice and cozy!



Shot out of the egg and then fell right to sleep again!













Morning chores....

Little Bear has gotten in the habit of checking for treats all the time!  John's doing....

Look at this beautiful new chick - bowtie silkie - our first colored one!

Little bear :)

Does this hay bag make me look fat?

me, me!  I need the next treat!

double trouble

nice hair!

nice hare!

yeah, I know I look good!

Wolfie is always by our side waiting for attention :)  He is the best!

Where is our breakfast?!

This is where the jack-o-lanterns will end up!

They just got the cage cleaned so they need to quick make a mess!

baby showgirls sleeping together in the heat

nice bald spot!

My nesting hens taking a break to snack

The turkeys are starting to gobble!

so tiny!

Ozzy watching over his hens

Buttercup is the head goat and she's looking good on the move!

YUM - breakfast!

YUM!

snacking!

Finally, my breakfast!

A life in a day on the farm

There is NO order to these photos as the document my day - although not nearly all of it!

We are raising 14 holiday turkeys in a turkey tractor made from an old broken cover-it and some fencing.  The turkeys eat regular blueseal feed and all the kitchen scraps I put together!

I made 2 apple pie stroodles for an impromtu party or friends/family/nieghbors (they are all 3)

SysNoodle trying to eat my ipod - she is bitecurious about EVERYTHING!

Wolfie waiting for me to walk them all into the field

My apple corer peeler is the BEST and only cost $20 at the hardware store - makes pies and drying fruit soooo easy!

John trying NOT to share his coffee!

We've  now hatched 10 baby chicks successfully!  3 have gone to other homes and 7 wait for adoption!

This is how I start my day, every day.  The animals know I will not discuss feeding or walking until I've drank my first cup!

My friend Kevin helped me trim all 28 goat hooves!  PHEW!

cuppy waiting to get milked!

frying up onions for tonights fun dinner with friends - beef stew with all the veggies in me and my sister's houses!

John checking the nest with the silkies running around looking for treats!

My English Angora need a harecut!

Pottery I made at the hebron fair is ready to be glazed!

Kids stopping by to be crazy and run around and make silly videos

when I asked Kevin for help I did not know he was afraid of goats! he is cured now!

Morning milking - sooooo cold now!

Stroodles ready for the oven!

The silkies have an outdoor pen, a sun room, and a nesting room

Eight loaves of bread waiting for the oven - yes, we ate them ALL!

We milked 2 times a day 12 horus apart

Doesn't she look like she's smiling?

I dried 1/2 gallon of apples - YUM!  my favorite winter treat!

I finished waxing the bottoms of the pottery for glazing!

Lamancha and the babies going back for some hay

Goat fear - cured!

John telling Cuppy that the coffee is NOT for her!

turkey treats after getting ready to make 2 pies and 1/2 gallon of apple leathers!

little chicks looking for homes!  $5 each!

There is nothing like homemade bread!

getting ready to clean apples

before the onions, there was the butter - YUM!

making dough

The goats are always curious!