Our Goats Are Here!

Our little boys, Angus & Malcolm, Nigerian Dwarf goat kids, arrived on Saturday! Aren't they so cute?!

5-day-old Baby Chicks!

Here they are, just 5 days old! Percy, Penelope, Priscilla, Prudence, Laverne & Shirley!



Read more about our chicks here.

The Baby Chicks are Here!!!

We picked up our 6 new baby chicks yesterday: step 1 of the 2009 Worcester County 4-H Poultry Challenge!

Here they are: Prudence, Percy, Penelope . . .

Laverne & Shirley!

This is a pic that Tori took of the Ameraucana chick, Priscilla.
They were just hatched on Wednesday at the Cackle Hatchery.

Look at those cute, fluffy little chickie butts!!

These are the breeds we got: 1 White Leghorn ('Percy'), 1 Ameraucana ('Priscilla'), 1 Black Sex Link ('Prudence'), 1 New Hampshire Red ('Penelope'), and 2 Gold Laced Wyandottes ('Laverne' & 'Shirley').

[The pics came out all reddish because of the heat lamp!]

Click here to see a video of our chicks at 5-days-old!

Officially Certified Wildlife Habitat!

We rec'd our certificate last week, but the yard sign has yet to arrive.
Our yard is now officially certified as a NWF Wildlife Habitat! And yesterday I discovered some *NEW* wildlife in my new shady perennial garden:

BABY BUNNIES!

We've seen wild rabbits in the backyard and on the hill often, but since planting in the rockwall garden last month, I've been observing one rabbit almost daily, hopping in and out of the garden; last evening I discovered why!
Since the rock wall is filled w/compost along with the hay and droppings from under our rabbit hutches, it must have "smelled like home" to her and she decided to make a burrow and have her babies in it!

How cool! We really do have a Backyard Wildlife Habitat now!

A few weeks ago I took this photo of a nest with just one egg in it and now it appears to have been abandoned. Last year there was a nest in a neighboring bush which had better results!

Happy Spring!

(flower photos by Tori)
It's time to start blogging about gardening again!
I can't wait to get my garden planted this year! I did start some seeds indoors last month, cucumbers, summer squash and mini-pumpkins, along with a few bean seeds, back when we were trying our hand at making Maple Syrup!

We have been busy working on building and preparing a new shade perennial garden and also on preparing to welcome new animals to our home/garden! Since the last time I posted we welcomed 2 rabbits to our familiy, Merlin (an American Chinchilla buck) and Ace (a black Velveteen Lop buck).

This spring we are looking forward to the arrival of our 6 baby chicks and 2 Nigerian Dwarf goat kids! Lots of updates and pictures coming soon!!
Here's a picture of Tori holding "Angus" and here is "Malcolm" where they currently reside at The Sisters Three Farm. We hope to be bringing them home at the end of May or early June!