Sunday, June 7, 2009

Busy Weekend on the Farm

We got a lot accomplished this weekend around the farm. The does have been rehoused in a larger barn- they finally outgrew their little dog house. We also got them some field fencing panels to use as temporary fencing so they could browse down other areas of the farm. It's still a work in progress and like Hemingway said "the first draft of anything is shit."  In addition, we tended to some general maintenance - cleaned out the gutters, divided and transplanted liriope plants, mowed and so on.  

In other news, the guinea keets are here. There are 30 of them. They all made it through shipping and are doing well. I never thought it possible but they are more meager witted than the chickens.  The baby bunnies are growing so fast! No losses there either and they will be 2 weeks old on Tuesday. We have 8 of them- 2 white (one with grey points), and the rest varying shades of browns with grey points. The browns may lighten up into fawns- we'll see. A few of them have their eyes open, and a couple have managed to squiggle themselves out if the nest box.  Here they are sleeping in their jumbled pile...

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