There are some things around the farm that words themselves don't do justice to. These are my current favorites.
Here we have Mama Duck. She very carefully set and hatched her 5 little ducklings and is a super mom. I love to listen to her call orders to them constantly- and they listen! There are alarm quacks for they need to stay close, follow me quacks, eat this quacks and of course her quacked warning to all that wander near- "i'm gonna kick your ...!" Today I happened to get between her and her brood in the coop. Now remember, I'm in there a lot- food, water, clean up ,etc and I have never hurt her or her ducklings. This happens frequently...
Next up, bottle fed baby goats. They're beginning to eat grain along with the hay they've been munching so they're down to 2 bottles a day. Hooray! This is what bottle time looks like.
We did have a bit of a scare Tuesday. Bubba didn't want to get up, and wouldn't take his bottle, had a low fever (barely above normal) and his sides were distended. I got him comfortable and planned to call the vet as soon as I got back form the girls school where I was volunteering for a couple of hours. Luckily, by the time I got home it had passed and Bubba was hollering for his bottle. According to the internet he had bloated and managed to pass the gas on his own. A little vegetable oil would have done the trick if he hadn't gotten it worked out himself. He's 100% now, yay!
Now if I could figure out how to blog the smell of my magnolia tree.
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