Just an update

Life's been crazy here lately....... but wanted to post an update. Everyone's fine! Baby Katie is three weeks old now, she's doing well, and just a little lover. Her teeth are coming in and she's munching on "real" food, and curious about everything! I have pics of her on our website now! Finally! My aunt died unexpectedly, Katie was born, and school started all in three days, and my son's schedule just went into overdrive....so I've really neglected this blog! Sorry! Being a mom is keeping me pretty busy now...with his activities having started up! And with summer winding down, I'm enjoying the weather while I can, and being productive on my list of things to do! So this blog may take a spot on the back burner for a little while!

Did I forget to mention?

We have a baby running around?????????

Chicken coop progress!

Rather than posting pics here....just go check out my website, the chicken coop page! The link to my site is on the right side of the page! Give you a hint.... it says "View my website!" We're nearly ready for "move in day" for those chickens. 'Bout time....

Getting closer!

It's August! Maybe baby month! Poor Kochia looks like she swallowed the top of our city's water tower, and she's dealing with the repercussions.... our girl's a little uncomfortable! I've got the camera set up in the barn so we can watch her at night on a TV set up in the dining room, and then there's Gracey, our other donkey, who got her foot stuck along the track of a sliding door, and has a nasty injury to her hoof, so she's receiving daily antibiotics and bandage changing. Never a dull moment around here. Like a friend said, you could lock these critters up in a padded room, and they'd still manage to get hurt on something.... anyway....here's some pics of our lady in waiting....from August 12th. She's due somewhere around the end of the month/beginning of September. Donkeys are pregnant for a full year, a month longer than a horse.

Chicken coop pics

Latest update (been awhile!)

Got some good news.... The chicken coop is coming along well, and the hens have started laying eggs! I was surprised by two eggs on July 17th, and we've had up to 5 in one day so far. What good girls. They seem quite proud of themselves! We just need to get their coop done! I will share photos in this post.

Photos!

Again, rain is halting our chicken coop construction for today (I swear it's cursed!), but I have been out taking photos the past couple days, and will share some here. Three of our horses, Merlin, our grullo miniature horse, Jag, our red dun Quarter horse, and Blue, our grulla Quarter horse.

More progress...

And again, more rain to contend with, so didn't get as much done as we'd hoped....

Making progress!

On Father's Day, my son, my husband and I made a lot of progress on the chicken coop. It has walls and windows now! No roof yet....but tomorrow will bring more work on it. Here is the progress so far!

Tornadoes

Tornadoes on Sunday....tornadoes today. Keeping us on our toes. Lots of rain, and a tornado a quarter mile down the road from us this evening. Scary stuff! Stay safe!

Good news!!

I'm just going to bypass the boring details, but NOW we DON'T need a zoning permit for the chicken coop we have been planning to house our chickens in....so we will continue construction on it! I'm trying to be CAUTIOUSLY excited! We've already got it started, it is 8'x12', but it will contain a storage area not accessible to the chickens.

I also have the most beautiful Tamukeyama Japanese Maple Tree (laceleaf) I received for my birthday today, eagerly waiting to be planted somewhere. I've always wanted one of these, and am eager to find a very special place to plant it!

Till next time!

Vet visits....

Whew.... now all of the vet visits are done (until someone gets hurt, sick, etc etc etc KNOCK ON WOOD)...... until fall when Kissy's teeth are checked again....... Ick, I don't know if I mentioned, our oldest cat, actually has cancer (lymphoma) they think, so he could end up needing to go in whenever the need arises.....but this series of back and forth to the vet (or calling the vet out here) is finally done! Now time to line up the farrier again.......

Nothing new.......still working on plans for the chicken coop.....no ideas yet......keep going back and forth...... but that's towards the top of my "to-do" list is to make a plan for those chickens...and get them out of the barn and into a bigger space!

School's almost out for summer....so I'll have a little helper at my side!

Till next time....

New pregnant donkey pic!

Unfortunately still three months to go....

Rabies vaccine reaction

Magic, one of our minis, had a pretty scary reaction to his rabies vaccine a couple of weeks ago. I've never had a reaction from anyone here, so you can imagine this was pretty darn scary for me. Here's a video.... I'll admit I'm going to be quite nervous at vaccination time from now on....with everyone! No fever, just swelling near the injection site and this walking issue which lasted a couple days. Thankfully he was in good spirits through it all. More than I can say for myself! Nine in all were vaccinated (7 horses and 2 donkeys) and he was the only one to get this type of reaction.

Three months to go!

Donkeys are pregnant for a full year, and our Kochia still has three months to go till her due date. It has been a long wait! Especially when she looks like this! She's 36" tall, and bred to Kreir Kountry Sully, a 32" chocolate/brown jack, so I'm keeping my fingers crossed for a brown baby (like our other donkey, Gracey). There was an ultrasound done, we know there's only one baby in there, and I am sure of her breeding dates, as she was taken to the jack, and was only away from home a week and a half.