Animal Update

Our main project this week was to revamp the goat shed to separate our poultry from the goats. We plan to put our goats and dog together, so we need the poultry in a well-contained separate area. 

We clipped the chickens' wings hoping to keep them from flying over the fence. I didn't clip them close enough the first time, so we had to redo it.

Since we caught the birds, I checked to see how close they are to laying. 

Use your fingers to check the space between their pubic bones. I could barely fit one finger between, so they have a way to go. The space needs to be big enough to fit an egg through, which is usually about 3ish fingers wide. 

The goats have been loving the remains of the fire pit. They sit and chew their cud there:

Give themselves backscratches:

And dig for snacks? Svetlana actually used her horn for digging, but switched to her hooves before I could take a picture. 

The kittens are hunting now. They still enjoy eating their cat food. Normally, they don't get this much food, but G didn't want them to run out when we were gone over the weekend, so he went a little overboard.