Back Into Farm Life

 After 3 wildflowers posts, it's back into the farm life side of things.

I put my calves up in the pasture and they are doing great. Only thing is the grass is still getting much too tall-guess I need a couple more calves...

Mr. Black and Marion got shaved this week. Boy, is it good that goats don't hold grudges for making them look so terrible! (The moth eaten look fades in a couple weeks though.)
I don't shave heads, but maybe I should because Mr. Black looks pretty ridiculous here with his head all big and hairy, and the rest of him bald.

Eclipse, being a snoop and trying to see what I was doing with Mr. Black. 

BTW, she is obviously just fine-she never showed any effects of her coming home feed bag raid, so I'm thankful for that! 

We are doing a milk test today, so the babies are locked in the barn and upset about that! 

Except for the bottle brats, who don't know who their dam's are, so don't snitch milk. At least not much-the kid on the left, Dora, snitches a few slurps from all the milking does who come to get a drink of water. 😑

I only got 3 ducklings in my last incubator hatch, but then my chicken was a good girl and hatched all 8 of her duck eggs! 

My older ducklings are getting huge, and are about to be tossed out with the big ducks, because they keep making a mess of the water.

My Lavender Orpingtons are big and pretty now too. Unfortunately, I think I have 4 roosters and 1 hen. 😳

Polly lost one kitten and kept hiding this one in stupid places, so we had to lock her up. This kitten's name is Indigo, and she is growing fast!

My favorite birds, Barn Swallows, have settled back into their nests! There are at least three pairs here-this one above the cow pen, another pair nesting in the loft, and one in the goat barn.