Baby turkeys have arrived

The chickens are doing a real good job sitting on the turkey eggs. 3 have hatched and are still with momma chicken-she doesn't know they are turkeys. They enjoy chasing my rings when I am feeding & cleaning. One even tried to catch a fly today-not bad for a couple days old. More hatchlings on the way. These are White Midgets-one of the smallest breeds of turkeys.

Good Ole Joe

Joe has been with us since we hatched him as a baby 8 years ago. He is such a good boy and has won many ribbons for the farm as a show bird and photo wise. He protects his girls and keeps all the other roos in line.

Plague of Locust or Herd of Loose Goats

Everything seems to be getting loose around here lately. This is some of the damage done while we were away for a couple of hours. Goats had a blast and decided to take aim on all fake creatures in my flower beds along with my flowers. My poor Rosebud-they left like 2 leaves for me.

The Family Grows

Well what can I say-this lil guy has been loose for over a week in the groton area, seems someone has turned an entire flock loose. He showed up at a wild bird feeder during the storms last week. Sunday nite in the rain he was caught and monday he was ours. We named him Crocker Storm.

Crocker after the Hill/Farm and Storm for his past week loose. He's a lil budgie so he needs a strong name. He seems to like his cage and enjoys being near the window. He is not a big singer/talker as of yet and doesn't seem to understand what a toy is. According to his band he was born in RI last year. I called every breeder & pet store to try to find the breeder-no luck so far. He doesnt appear to be hand tame but thats fine. He needs a lil visit to the vet to make sure he isnt a host to any bad bird diseases and then he can join the others. So for now he's living on a chair in the kitchen watching the swallows play in the field. What's one more bird...

What did I wake up to?

As I am making the bed at 5am I hear the chirps of a guinea hen. Too early for that-Oh yea and we don't own a guinea hen! Appears someone else did and thought we were a great new home for it and left it off overnight in the front fenced area of our yard. Well I grab the bread and try to get a good look and make sure its not hurt-nope runs away shreaking in normal guinea hen style. It wants nothing from me other than to be freed from the fence line where it has been tormented by big trucks rushing down the hill since daylight. Well up and over the fence it goes and heads straight for the road and starts walking up the street. I am hopeful it will find another home-with guineas,lol. If it comes back here I guess we can add it to the flock-maybe-we had guineas before and they are awesome for ticks. I feel really bad that someone would just dump it off. It must be really scared. My guess a male-once they mature they usually fight with another male and they roost fairly early at night so its not like he wondered around in the dark all night-someone put him there. I hope I don't find him in the road later.....never a dull moment on the farm.

Peonies so pretty

When they bloom they smell so good. Some fell from the rain so I will have to cut them and bring them inside-oh darn.

Love shots like this!

After last nights storms Mother Nature rolled another one in this morning but the sun got a few peaks in before losing the battle.

Oh sooo pretty

and you know it's my FAVORITE color!