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Tweet ! New chicks at Moss Flower Farm

By on May 11, 2011 in Moss Flower Farm, our animals

Today is the day the kids have been waiting for.  It has been 3 years since we have had chicks and it was time to add new chickens to our farm.  We picked up our 16 chicks and 2 Pekin ducklings.  They will be raised together so hopefully the ducks will not think they are chickens.

so hard to pick
the chosen in their temporary digs in the foyer

this is love

so for the next two days I am on around the clock watch turning on and off the heat lamp for them and wiping poop off their little buts until they can do it for themselves.

and outside taking a nap on the porch, the girls wonder what’s the big deal with those little fluffballs

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I am back

By on April 21, 2011 in Moss Flower Farm, our animals

So I went AWOL and missed the last few days…let me explain.  My dog ate my homework,  I was kidnapped by aliens and I got lost in the mail!

I have not had one extra minute since Saturday and I am sorry for leaving you all hanging with the craft-along but my farm was screaming for attention and then I was flooded with last minute Easter orders and just sent out the last ones yesterday.  I love getting orders of course but when a holiday is looming it is like a great big deadline hovering over my head wherever I go. Later today I will be back on with two more Easter crafts and tomorrow I will be posting the Easter dresses.
So really I have at least one great excuse and pictures.  I have been looking for a Jersey milk cow for our farm.  I have been far and near and guess what…I found one.  She is four years old and is in milk right now and ….she is 2 months pregnant.  
Ms Penelope at the dairy
(I’m not upset in this picture, just trying to not slip and fall in cow poop in flip flops)

 the boys loved the baby calves

Yesterday, I was invited to come back to the dairy to work.  We helped wash cows, wash udders and hook up milking machines to over 50 cows.  It was super funny to watch all the cows line up to get into the milking barn.  Some cows would hold up the line and then the rest behind her would start protesting.
I got to hand milk our cow and came home with two half gallon mason jars of beautiful Jersey milk which is in the fridge right now waiting for the cream to rise so I can skim it off and make some butter!!!  So see, I had at least one good excuse.  I will be back later today.  See you then.
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