Eye Pecking Chicken

Yes you read it right. My chicken flew up on my shoulder, which I thought was so cute, til she grabbed my earring which made me turn my head. Then she pecked me in the eye. It happened Sunday and by Thursday I had to go to the doc cause it was so swollen and sore. I have a small chunck out of my cornia and abrasions on my eye ball and inside my eye lid. Lesson learned, chickens sitting on your shoulder is not good .

Its been a while.

I thinkI fell off the face of the earth for a while. Everything in my world is coming along slowly. See our house burnt down Dec. 23, 2010 so we are living in an RV. Someone was nice enough to give us a 12x65 1974 mobile home that needs alot of work to make livable. We have put alot of work, time and money into it and are almost there. I hope we can get moved into it soon, this camper is closing in on me.

All the animals are good. Chickens are free ranging which I let them do in the winter. My chickens that hatched out early last spring was hatching out their own chicks by fall. I even had a batch hatch in Dec. which I thought was a little strange but their doing great. All my goat girls are breed by my buck and due starting in Feb. I can't wait, but I am nervous cause this is my first time with goat births.

I started my breeding for my rabbits in Dec. Out of 6 does only 3 gave birth. The 3 that didn't are first timers and we have had some crazyness around here so I'm not surprised they didn't carry.

I am going to try raised garden beds this year. I have been thinking on what I'm going to plant and getting seeds ready. I still have to prep the ground and make my beds , I hope I can get everything ready intime. My plan for this year is to grow alot of our own food and do alot of canning. I started learning canning last year and loved it. I made salsa and different kinds of jam. This year I 'm going for gold if everthing work out.

The Lawnmower and The Rock

  Hello all, Well today it was only in the 80's and overcast, so to me it was the perfect day to mow the lawn  and the fence line of the goat pasture, so thats what I started doing. I mowed the pasture inside and out. Inside the pasture is where I parked the lawnmower while I went to get the pushmower to get a few spots I that needed touched up. My butt wasn't off the rider for a whole minute when it became the new jungle jim for the goats. They where all over it. I had to pull Sarge down off it so I could get on it to pull it out of the pasture. Then he jumped up on the back of it and was walking on his back legs behind it with his head over my shoulder. He is a mess. Here's a pic.

Ok, Now the rock. We had a big rock at the end of the driveway. We thought, boy the goats would love that, so we dragged it up the hill and into the goat pasture and they loved it. We sat out there watching them play king of the rock for a while. I've got pics of that to, I'll post one here but you can see more of them on my photo pages. Enjoy.

Moving the Goat Stand

We got the goat stand done and I was TRYING to move it into the barn. I got to the door and was swarmed by the crew wanting to check out the new ( Jungle Jim ) mom and dad built for them. They just don't know it yet but they may not think that its so much fun when they figure out what its really for. None of them except for Sarge has been up on it to get thier hooves clipped yet. Laverne and Shirley ( the two that are on it in this pic) will be the hardest to do, they are still pretty wild. Well enjoy your day, I'm off to go get corn for the critters.