Gains and losses in the mini farm

[Petia]

We started our little farm in the May 2013 with 5 chicken and 4 duck babies and an acre of land.

 

[Outpost JWB]

Very cute! So, that was 2 years ago.....How many are you up to now? We all know about chicken math! LOL!

 

[Petia]

edit: it was actually 2014, sorry



Diesel (cause she is black and it also came from "jeez", cause she was hyper) on the left, Vampire (she always pecked at marks on my arms) on the right and Jewel (previously Silver) at the back



Koko and Rosebud (cause of her ... thingie, what do you call it? on her head)

 

[Petia]

to Outpost JWB: now we have seven out of 12... I will post the rest here soon :3

 

[Petia]

After we got them old enough to be outside and we did put them outside, we lost Diesel to a raccoon. Beastly thing ate half of her, we found her in the middle of night.


Diesel is the black one

At the same time we also got a bunny

we ate him

 

[Petia]

when everybody was old enough to be kept outside, we got geese too. Charlie, Russle, Teacup and we ate one before he got a name.


Here they are with Papa (mallard) and Mama (the brown duck in the back
Charlie is the one, who looks like she murdered somebody (She had water-melon, like the others, but she also played in it)



Chicken got flighty, so we clipped them, but their little fence couldn't keep them in anymore


This is the new one.

 

[Petia]

We saved Wringo, our little roo, who was supposed to be food for birds of pray in local wild bird sanctuary, but the chicken farmer, who brings the roosters once in a while didn't manage to kill him.

he is about half the size of our girls, but he sure tries

his thingie got frosbitten, because the winter was very rough

 

[Petia]

With the spring of this year, we bought 7 more baby chicks. beautiful... fluffy.
We forgot to close them one night. All but two were killed and ripped to pieces by raccoon(s)



this is Hunter

Pepper Flakes, Griffin and Red Dwarf in background

Freckle flakes, Griffin at the right

Zombibie with her crooked beak and bad dept perception (she is a mutant)

and my most favorite...




to be rooster Butterfluff



Only Zombie and Griffin survived

 

[Allisha]

Hmnn..those two large, white 'ducks' seem to be actually Geese.
You can't get a good look at them, but I can see their beaks, and the way they aren't fully feathered like the others, so I am almost certain they are.
How exciting!
I wish I had Geese!

 

[Petia]

C: they are geese: "when everybody was old enough to be kept outside, we got geese too. Charlie, Russle, Teacup and we ate one before he got a name."

we kept only one though, because only one was nice to the other birds