Some New Babies

Yay!! We have great chickens! I love our chickens! Not only are they super chickens, but one of them has hatched out 5 chicks. It was great. They hatched on Monday, today they are 4 days old. By Monday afternoon she had them out and was teaching them how to eat - so great to see them following along behind her and then watching when she does something.

By now she has probably taught them everything they need to know about being a chicken, but maybe they'll learn how to be good moms so they can hatch their own out next summer! You never know. Anyway, at this stage they are cute as the dickens. With all the different colours they are we have no idea what they will finally look like. I expect that the yellow ones will be regular brown ones, but I have no idea about the dark ones or the two toned yellow and beige. We also weren't able to get close to them so we have no idea what sex they are. That will take a couple weeks.

 And yesterday we picked up three of our new pigs. They are all Berkshires, two boys and one girl and they are 8 weeks old. The boys will be for meat, but we are hoping to keep the girl. We have named her Celeste and these aren't very good pictures, but we'll get better ones once they settle in. So we are going to be spending some time with her and hoping to make her pet-like, so we can take her places because she is so good looking. We will be breeding her in time - provided we can find the right boar. So we are already on the lookout! We got her specifically because we love her spots.

In three weeks we'll be getting six more piglets. They'll be 5 weeks old and they will be the regular pink pigs - Yorkshire-Landreth crosses. They will all be for meat, but we love them while they are growing up.