We kicked off March with some fun St. Patrick's Day shenanigans! Everyone dressed in their best green attire, and I had my women's run group over to visit the animals.
Mark and I took a quick trip to Arizona for the Black Canyon Donkey Derby. It's too far to travel with our own donkeys, but we had the great opportunity to run with Maple, and Pickles, two of the donkeys from Hope the Wild Burro Place. We had a blast! We went to burro camp the day before and got to know Maple and Pickles a little bit. We met so many great people that I've been following on Instagram for a long time. Race day was so fun! It was a learning experience for us, and Maple and Pickles were so patient. I'm hooked now, and we are planning on a race with Clover and Willow in the future. We need to bring events like these to Idaho.
The morning of the burro race, we got this message from Nora. 😄
"Good luck with running a race with your donkeys!"
Mark was out of town a bit in March, and one night I was home, reading in bed at around 10:00 PM and the ring doorbell went off. I was a little nervous at first, but when I looked on my camera app, this is what I saw. 😆
Snow and ice were finally melting in the pasture, and the cows and donks were so happy to have more space to run and kick up their heels.
It's a sure sign of spring when your tree turns into a total bird hotel!
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| We're still getting random dustings of snow every once in a while. |
We spent some much needed time cleaning out the feed room. It was a mess, and although it doesn't stay clean for very long, it's a really good feeling when it gets cleaned and organized.
Goats:
The goats have gotten out on more walks this month, and they are really enjoying that.
They don't even mind the snow; they just like to get out and run.
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| Goat corral clean out day. Before |
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Cows:
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| Opal ate and then went out in the rain. She was a total mess! |
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| Selfies with my cute Opal! |
Watching them eat never gets old. 😅
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| All clean and sparkly after his bath. |
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| I love his cute face! |
Donkeys:
When it's corral clean out day, they are always so helpful. 😅
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| I had to go out and feed them extra early one morning. They were not thrilled about being woken up that early. 😆 |
Willow loves a good rake scratch!
Chickens:
I let Tillie and Fern out into the big part of the barn when I'm doing chores in the mornings. Once I'm finished with everything, I take turns picking them up and walking them around the barn. They love it! I usually walk Fern first, and then when it's Tillie's turn, Fern chases after us, getting under my feet, and pecking my feet because she wants another turn. Mark thinks it's so funny! They had already had their walks, but Mark wanted to film Fern following me around, so I picked up Tillie and just walked her around the stall. Sure enough, Fern was jealous and wanted it to be her turn. 😂
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| The chickens are producing pretty good now that winter is mostly over, so I've been selling lots of chicken eggs. I love hearing how much people love the eggs from my chickens. |
I've been dumping buckets of hay scraps in the chicken run, and I love watching them scratch through it. Here are a couple videos of them doing it.
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| Jenn got me this shirt, and I love it! |
We got 7 more chicks this year to add to our flock. It's always so fun to have the babies in the barn. I wish they could stay little fluff balls for a bit longer.
We told Nora she could name our chicks this year. Her choices did not disappoint! 😆 I made a reel of it, and it went crazy; over 760 thousand views so far, and still climbing. I'm getting so many comments of people telling me the names of their chicks, and there are some hilarious ones.
We get powdery chicken food at the bottom of the bag, and I don't like it to go to waste, so I found a way to use it up.
At the end of our fire season, we cleaned out our fireplace, and used all the ash to make our chickens a dust bath.
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| I've had to start locking them out of the office when I'm in there working on stuff. They are so nosey! |
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Stormy and Cheddar are hanging around the house more and more lately. I got this ring notification. 😆
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| Cheddar comes to the back door several times a week in the evenings. He usually meows for a snack and then hangs out with Floof and Michem for a while. He never shows any aggression towards them, which is good for an intact male cat. He has a really sweet personality. |
Stormy will show up with Cheddar every once in a while too. She has come up to the door several times to see Floof and Michem. I wonder if she knows they are her babies. Floof and Michem love having visitors. They sit there like they are watching a movie.
One morning I opened the back barn door and Cheddar just waltzed right in like he owned the place. He just did some looking around and then went back out. I tried to get Stormy to come in, but she kept her distance. I would like them to come in on the really cold negative temperatures nights, but Stormy isn't quite to that point yet. We've made huge strides with her the past year though.
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| We brought a little cat stand out to the hay barn that Floof and Michem outgrew. Stormy loves it. |
Stormy is worth her weight in gold around here. We see her catch tons of mice! I love when she realizes I'm watching her in this video. 😆
We've got a lot of big projects underway on the farm. April and May will be a busy month, so stay tuned for big farm improvements.
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