Who Let The Goats Out?

Boogie has found a new bush to munch on.

Note to self...take laundry off the line before letting the goats out.

Some of the boys have figured out how to reach the high leaves.

They are still munching on the old Christmas trees.

Everything is going to be well 'trimmed' about three feet off the ground.

Eggs Coming Out My Ears

I try to limit my trips to the nesting boxes to once in the evening.  That gives the girls all day to lay eggs and I don't wear a path in the grass.  It is so hard not to go see who laid an egg when I hear them singing their egg song.  the other night I went out and found at least one eggs in all for nesting boxes in Mark's Girls nesting boxes.  That is another first.

It Is Always Something

Last week we spent about 4 hours cleaning our the chicken coops and dusting the chickens.  Some of the girls will come to you and some will squat down to be picked up but then there are others that run around like....chickens with their heads cut off.  We finally got smart and coaxed them into the rabbit sunning pen.  They would only go in two at a time.   After we got finished I looked back in the backyard and this is what I saw.  Wouldn't you know it?

Leona taking a short cut to the kitchen compost bowl that is in the potting sink.

And then I find this-this morning...somebody has a story to tell.  But all girls are accounted for.  Feathers are everywhere!  Even in the birdhouse above this mess.

Binker Screen Shots

Binker doesn't get much blog time.  He is camera shy.

I'll have to do some research to see just how old he is.  I know he is less that 11 years old.

He's a sweet boy and provided fertilizer for the flower beds.

PLEASE, Can We Come Out And Play?

Silly Girls

Two somebody's spent the night with the goats I see!

Spent The Evening With The Girls

Somebody has been dusting in the mud.

Itch, itch.

Something going on here...not sure what.  Maybe she is egg bound.

No wonder I can't get anything to grow.

Running across the yard to see what all the commotion is all about.

Yummy worms.

Strutting

I like to watch them listen for worms.

Someone was dusting in the fire pit.

Wonder how far she would jump if I turned on the fountain?

Reable brought these two cartoons down the other day during breakfast.

And This Is What She Thinks...

I do not like the rain Sam I Am.

And Then...

There was a day when I found an egg in the goat pen in the ditch lilies.

We don't eat the ones we find in the yard.  They go to compost.  Don't want to take any chances.

They Are So Funny

I was out in the yard messing around and thought I would check to see if I had any green eggs. We haven't seen one for a few weeks.  Either she has stopped laying or they are hidden in a nest somewhere in the yard.  This is exactly what I saw when I looked in the nesting box.  All the seven eggs lined in a straight line.  Crazy!  I have heard of getting all your ducks in a row...some OCD chickens in the house!

When I went out to gather them at the end of the day, this is what I find.  There has to be one in every family...an additional egg but they are all messed up now.  There is never a dull moment!