What the @#$%

Went out to give all the animals some Honeydew melon and the largest grey baby of Lovie's was dead.  Last night he had crawled through some small holes between the cages and made it clear over to the triplet's cage, Shane moved him back and put new boards up over the holes.  I don't know if maybe he got internal damage from that or the other rabbits or what could have happened.  There was no blood.  That chunk was the biggest and I was just sure he would survive.  Unfortunately he was also Sky's favorite.  He is so upset. 

I think we need to get a small breed bunny to be a pet for the boys.  That way they have something small to cuddle and they can think of the others as just food.

Farm Family Updates...

The littlest of Lovie's babies finally opened her eyes!  She is about 1/3 the size of the others but still holding her own.

 

Rosie's babies are still doing good.  All 5 still alive.

 

We are getting 3 eggs a day on most days and they are starting to get bigger!!!

 

The turkey girls have been put in with the chickens and everyone is mostly getting along.  Every now and then I have to go out and put a turkey (usually Christmas) in their place and get her to stop chasing a chicken.

 

Gogo is a girl...we have proof that she is one who is laying eggs.  It is starting to look like we might not have any boys.  Which is good, more eggs but we really hoped to have at least one rooster so we could raise some chicks.  I just have to wait and see, not everyone is laying eggs so there is still a chance someone might start crowing...

 

Trying to get the boys to pick black berries so I can make a batch of jelly but they refuse, saying this is their summer and they shouldn't have to work...?  When is my vacation from all work?

Baby bunny first aid

So one of Lovie's babies has a problem.  The side of his face swelled up 3 days ago and his eye was sealed closed.  I brought him inside and used a warm wet wash cloth to clean the eye and once the eye was clean a bunch of pus came out which, once it stopped flowing out all the swelling was gone.  I spent a couple days cleaning the eye a couple times a day to get all the dried crusty off and started putting Vetericyn Ophthalmic gel on his eye.  there isn't large amounts of pus anymore but I do believe he is going to be blind in that eye.  I call him One eyed Willy from the movie Goonies.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The top photo is after I put the meds in his eye so the eye area looks wet from that.  The 3rd photo shows him having the eye open (the white is the actual eye ball).  The bottom photo shows his cute little face. 

 

 

Tinker found!

It appears a woman on her way to the Kenny Loggins concert last night found Tink by the highway and took him to her daughter's house.  Her daughter and husband took wonderful care of Tinker all night and saw one of our signs this morning and brought him home!  I am so excited!  I got his harness back on him so he has his ID tags and I am not letting him out of my sight!!!  I can now get some sleep!

Dog Missing

Tinker is missing!  We were stacking wood last night and he is now missing.  I am guessing he wandered up by the highway and someone picked him up.  Unfortunately I took his collar off the other day when I was putting on his flea meds and didn't put it back on.  My stomach hurts and I have not slept all night.  He is 9 years old and my baby.  He sleeps with me every night and normally he isn't too far from me.  When I am gardening he is usually laying down the next row over, when I am working in the kitchen he is ALWAYS underfoot.  I just don't know what I am going to do.

2 eggs in one day!

We actually got 2 eggs today (so far).  I chopped up some cantaloupe to bribe the girls to put a little extra effort into laying eggs.  I got so excited when Chirpie started laying but I need to be patient because originally we didn't think we would get eggs tell the end of July.  I have this dream of not having to buy eggs anymore.  When we have omelets for breakfast we go through 11 eggs!  I am not sure we will ever get to the point we don't have to buy any eggs though.

The metal roofing is in for the wood shed so we should have it done today and can start moving the wood in leaving the house clear to start painting again.

Anyone reading this who want gift ideas for my boys or just want to help me out, both boys are currently into Lego minifigure people.  I can not find anymore around town here so keep an eye out for me please.

eggs

I took photos but I have to say it is hard to truly get the difference between the eggs in the photos but here they are:

 

 

The top photo has the egg shells by the bowl but there is not any difference in the 3 from our chickens but the store bought is a lighter/brighter yellow and our girls lay a darker orangey egg.  The 2nd photo shows a bit of a difference but I am not sure how to light these to show the color difference the best...

 

 

 

 

 

now looking from the side you can see the yoke from the fresh eggs our girls layed are rounder, the store bought yoke flattens out more.  unfortunately in this photo the color looks almost the same.