Some times you meet the most unfriendly neighbors!

Violet's doeling ventures into the world with the innocence of youth....:)


"Wow! This is great! Out in the big world....not having to stay in that pen any longer!!"




"Hey! Who are you? Are you my friend? What are you? I'm a goat........"





"You're aweful quiet....don't you ever say anything? I have LOTS to say......."




"Don't you move? You're sure funny looking! I'm cute, everyone tells me so! "




"Why are you looking at me that way? don't you want to be my friend? We can play!"




"YIKES! Wow! You're not nice AT ALL!! "



"I'm OUTTA HERE!!"



"You're mean! See if I ever want to be YOUR friend again! Mom!!!!"

Just another soggy Sunday........

Yup, another rainy day in WA. no surprise really. Except the weatherman DID say it was supposed to be a mostly dry weekend (granted it was said last week and it IS a weatherman doing the prediction). I was really looking forward to cleaning out the chicken coop and barn from all the "leftovers" from the critters during the snow party.

No such luck, guess I'll have to wait. Darn. :P I decided to do a little picture taking during feeding this morning.

I'll start with the most shocking picture....I don't normally take pics of myself (let alone let anyone else take one) and I definitely try to at least run a brush through my hair beforehand. Not this time. Here I am in all my glory, no make-up, sweats and messy hair. Ginger didn't care though, I love how animals enjoy visiting with you no matter what you look like. :)


There was plenty of soggy poultry waiting to be fed.....the guineas looked the worse for the wear.....madder than a wet guinea? (or does that only work for hens?)


Didn't slow down the chorus of "buckwheating" going on....


My Narragansett tom thought the rain was so much better than the snow, much easier to strut his stuff....


Is this a face only a mother could love (or a turkey hen)?


Hey! Take a pic of ME! I am after all the handsomest male on the farm (this rooster did seem to demand I take his pic):)


There also were many soggy sheep, Bevin says "I hear it's dry back home in OR!!"


Matisse says "let's get the donkey to distract her and maybe we can escape and hitchhike back to OR.....or maybe go further South and go hang out on a CA beach....


The smart ones of the barnyard were these three girls, hanging out on a stall door. I honestly think they thought I would come over and hand feed them their breakfast.


The other smart ones were the kitties, Coopurrr and Hooch, snuggled up on the front porch.

My Witchhazels are starting to bloom, they have to be my favorite wintertime plant. The colors are so vibrant and defiant against the gray cloudy days.

Silent Sunday

Do Ya Think I'm Sexy!!??? (with a nod to Rod Stewart)

Obviously, I'm not talking about myself, but my young male peacock.

He is SURE that he is the most gorgeous thing on two legs!!





He finally has one big feather with an eye on the end but the rest of what he has to offer is pretty bland. It doesn't slow him down one bit and if he doesn't get a response from one girl he tries another.... From what I can see, no one finds him the least bit interesting....yet.....except the person with the camera! :)

"Listen Bub! You're just NOT my type!!"





"WHAT?? You MUST be kidding!!!"






Sigh.....well maybe next year?? :)

Calling Fowl.....

Or I guess in my case, foul.

Some of you probably remember my Turkey Boys post, but what most of you probably don't know is that they disappeared one day. We suspect two legged predators as they were both good size, disappeared during the same time, and left no feathers/signs of a struggle.

It was very depressing thinking about my friendly boys being eaten in someones sandwiches and I tried to think about that they had a good life while they were here. I only hope they were dispatched humanely.

Here's a couple of pics of my Turkey Boys in all their glory......






I really enjoyed having turkeys and decided to try again. I picked up a couple of Wild crosses and some Narragansetts. I kept them penned until they got to be of decent size and then released them to be free range with the rest of my poultry. There was a little squabbling and the Peacock thought "HEY! look at all the homely looking peahens....but what the heck??!!" :) They have settled in nicely and I'm starting to think about names for them all.

Here are some pics of the youngsters.....








On another note, of calling foul (or in their case, fowl) the dogs spooked the young guineas to where they flew up to the top of our garage roof. They were definitely starting to sound like guineas, and seemed to have no idea how they got up there or how they were going to get down. (Eventually they did fly down.....I was beginning to worry that I was going to have to start feeding them up there...)





It was then that I realized that their "keet cuteness" was starting to diminish. So I thought before the next full moon that I should post some pics of them while they still have the cute factor going for them.






And thus ends another episode of As the Feather Flutters......:)