As of today: 16 farm animals at High Tide Farm. Each morning starts with letting the animals out of their overnight shelter and starting breakfast, The day is theirs to enjoy life and then in the evening comes dinner, a little time spent with each one and then all get tucked in to bed with a good night story. Not all are good listeners. LuLu has been known to eat the pages of the book I read to her. Ha Ha!
Here they are:
Poppy and her mama LuLu - yes Poppy is a goat not a cow
Poppy with a chicken on her back
Watching over everyone is Charlotte, a Great Pyrenees and guardian livestock dog
Baby Rose is interested in my earrings. Rose is 2 weeks old in this picture but is now 3
Rodney is a feral turned friendly cat. He gets along with everyone and is a funny little guy
LuLu (Eloise when she is bad - but she never is. LuLu came with me from Denver and is now 8 years old. She likes to hang out on tree stumps and in wagons. Oh she likes her bedtime stories
Firecracker. She's just lost her tail feathers and is beginning to molt but when she is laying she lays a beautiful blue egg. Thank you Firecracker
Pippin. I don't know where he came from - across the street i think- but figured out where the free meal was served and now is a part of the farm. I've yet to touch him. See the heart on his side?
Eclair - one of my newest flock. Eclair is an "Easter Egger" chicken and is now at 5 months just starting to lay hr eggs.....a pretty blue one
This is Lily. Lily is also a youngster. She is a lavender Orpington and her egg is brown.
This is Croissant. She is Eclair's twin but does have a look of her own. She is quite a talker and when you hold her she will gently tell you a story....she waits for your verbal response and then she adds a bit more, Her egg will be either green or blue like Eclair's
Bullet is my only male goat. He has been castrated and is called a wether - no longer a buck. He is very funny, Don't you love his blue eyes? He also has wattles (little pendulous skin under his throat) which add to his adorableness Bullet weighs about 60 pounds. The does weigh about 45
This is Lacy. She is a golden laced Wyandotte chicken and lays a brown egg. Lacy is getting old - about 5
Butterscotch. Also one of my old girls. She sometimes needs a little help getting out of bed in the morning but don't we all sometimes? Scotchy lays a blue egg. She is an Aracauna.
Jolene. She is a silver laced Wyandotte and lays a brown egg. Jolene is the head hen in my flock
LuLu in the chicken yard
Rose today. She is 3. Rose is a tiny goat even for a Nigerian Dwarf. She gets pushed around a lot but has developed skills that keep her strong and happy. She gets a little mixed up when she wants attention. While the other goats in the herd nestle up to me when they want attention Rose gives me a head butt. Just a little one but that's really not the way to ask for attention Rose
Meet Spiderman. She had a different name at first but she started to look just like the first chicken I had in Denver. Kate had named the chicken Spiderman and she was terrific. This Spiderman is an excellent Japanese beetle catcher. She will chase them around the barnyard and when they dare get low enough she grabs them. Way to go Spiderman! This chicken is an Aracauna and lays and beautiful green blue egg. It's actually too bg to fit into an egg carton
Last but not least is Violette. She is a lavender Orpington and has not yet started laying but soon. Her egg will be brown.
Today's eggs: Spiderman's, Jolene's, Eclair's & Lily's
This makes a total of 1 dog, 4 goats, 9 chickens and 2 farm cats.
Life is good on the farm. I'm a lucky girl to have these fabulous animals around me each day!
