Farm Friday

This week at Windy Creek Farm has been comparatively uneventful. Our milking supplies arrived, and I finally got a stanchion built. Smokestack demonstrates it's method of operation (and he's still out there;). We'll start training Patty to milk next week.

The chickens are growing fast and I've only lost one. They're getting their wing feathers now, and they're eating a copious amount of feed.

Smokestack sold the last of his bunnies early this week. There seems to be a huge demand for breeding rabbits here, so Smokestack bred two more. I'm starting to think I'm in the wrong business. :D

Out in the pasture, my goat herd is growing. Here are a few of them; it's hard to get them all together for a picture.

This little fella is only five weeks old, and he's as big as another kid that's five months old.

I cut this field for hay four weeks ago, and it's greening back up now. You can see the new green shoots and the white clover.

The cows are enjoying some fresh grass and getting fatter every day.

We went to a farm today and got a few gallons of raw milk from Jersey cows (the best), to make butter with. It's great milk. Our Grandpa found a real ceramic churn and we're letting the cream ripen until tomorrow.

We saw our second snake on the farm today. Momma was at the clothesline and nearly stepped on it. I walked out there with the hoe and saw that it was big, but not poisonous. I actually considered sparing it (I hate snakes, so that's incredible). Anyway, when I touched the snake with the hoe it struck towards it and started shaking it's tail. No snake shakes its tail at me and gets away with it. I found later that it had been a pine snake, a harmless albeit aggressive snake that mimics a rattlesnake.

Have a great weekend!

Sherlock