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Yesterday morning was so beautiful and since Jonah & I were the only ones awake, we took a walk down the driveway. I thought I'd share some pics of our animals. First we checked on the chicks, but I recently posted a pic of them-see in a post below. Did you know chickens have many different tones of clucking, churring/purring & squawking? We have learned what many of these sounds mean. Sometimes they make an extremely alarming sound that makes me think they're in the process of being eaten by a coyote. I run out there to see what is the matter and all they're doing is announcing (to the entire world)the fact that they laid an egg. LOL Here is Bonnie & Slugger. Bonnie is the one with the white stripe-she acts like quite the lady and has a feminine quality about her(except when she's eating-then she looks like a pig at the trough). She likes to smell people's necks-LOL. You can't see Slugger that well, but he's an absolute sweetheart. He loves kids and stands perfectly still whenever really little ones are around. He gets a really funny look sometimes-a wide-eyed, "oh no, what's going to happen to me now" kind of look. It's hysterical. Seeing as he's accident prone, he has cause to look that way often.
Here's Retro. Boy, does he have a lot of character. He lets Susanna (2.5) grab his face by the nostrils and he likes to flap his lips on top of her head. But, he can be quite rebellious with an adult riding him when he doesn't want to walk thru a puddle.
Here's the elusive Mama cow with her daughter. I say elusive because everytime I try to get a picture of her calf, she packs up her daughter and rushes into the woods. But, her calf (the kids named her Lindsey) is getting very curious now and has a mind of her own. She is the most wandering-off calf I have ever seen. She'll walk half a pasture away from her mother and is only a week old. Her mother gets so upset and bellows something awful. Lindsey often doesn't listen and then her mother(named Taffy) runs to catch up with her, which looks painful with her big udder.
Sometimes Lindsey follows the horses around. Last year's calf listened much better. That calf(steer, now) is still with us and he is a very loving big brother, surprisingly. We may be down a rooster soon, I hope. We have 2 of them and one of them is extremely annoying. He's also not in charge of the flock, so is an outsider. Every morning he hops on the porch and crows over and over while we're eating breakfast of doing Bible reading. He also likes to get right up behind me while I'm hanging laundry and let out a loud crow which makes me jump every time. I really believe he does it on purpose. So, that's most of our animals, escept the dogs, the other chickens and the cat. Jonah & I had a very nice talk while we walked-we always do when it's just the two of us. |
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