What's doing down on the farm

Helllllooooo, anyone still trying to follow my blog?  I am sorry it has been another whole month since my last post.  One would think nothing is going on around here, not true.  Summer came for a visit, she left and a proper Spring has settled in.  Cold and Windy and hey a call for Snow tomorrow. But enough about the weather on to the pictures. 

The trees are in greening.

The new raised beds in the garden.  Just waiting for seedlings.

The beast has arrived on the farm.  Compost piles tremble in fear.

Back in October we brought home our little piglets, well they have grown and it was time to say good bye.  I am anxious to get more and am looking into breeding our own soon.  I truly enjoyed Pickles and Petunia, they were quite the characters. 

Pigs really do love mud.  Petunia is standing in the mess she made every time I filled their water bucket.  

 

Before the shearer...

After the shearer.  My shearer lets me do the top knots, which always resemble the mohawks of  Gremlins.

Archie really needs to be shorn, but he sheds his fleece, he and his brother look really scary for about a month.

This is Cupcake, our former bottle baby, he is quite the wild child.

Cupcake, Java and their mama Psyche.  We are all about blended families.

Psyche has enough milk for 2 very hungry lambs and me!

Terra and Luna are shaping up to be good guardians.  I love me some pups!

This little guy was born this morning to Maple.  Maple and Prissy were my accidental breeding's this year.  Time will tell if the right buck is the father.  

 

We are still waiting for Prissy, one of my other Saanen does to kid.  She was not supposed to be bred this year, but obviously there was a conspiracy going on.  I was sure she would go before Maple, but she is holding out.  I am really hoping she is holding out with a little doe.

Coco and Cupcake or a study in black and white.

A few days after we brought Cupcake home, we got a call that there was another bottle lamb available.  This time a Ewe.  Coco was a twin whose mother just wouldn't care for  her.

 Of course we would take her. 
We didn't think that Psyche would take her, but we knew we had enough milk for her and because we were no longer feeding Cupcake off the bottle,  it wouldn't be too much work.  After all, who doesn't love a midnight feeding. 

She gets a little wild eyed before her bottle.  Her ears are slowly straightening out, but they sure are cute for now.

At 3 days old, she was the same size as Cupcake at a week old, they look like twins.  Coco spends her nights in the kennel in the laundry room and her days in the barn with Cupcake and Psyche.  And even though Psyche won't let Coco nurse on her own, she has no problem letting her nurse when she is stuffing her face with grain.

It is after all a milking stand, doesn't make a difference who is doing the 'milking'.

Cupcake is fascinated with Slinky the cat, who is just about the same size.

Could be twins..

Or triplets...  Cupcake is learning to share.