Animal Farm

This is Phinneas, or Furrbut. I can't really tell them apart unless I try to pick them up. Furrbutt loves to be picked up, Phinneas not so much. They are out "barn" cats and pretty good mousers. They get the occasional bird and young rabbit and even butterfly too.

Remeber those chicken tractor's from last week? Well this is what it looks like to be living in them. these chickens are called meat kings. All they do is eat, drink and grow. And make a huge mess. We have to move this housing unit every 2 days.

These are the turkeys. much like the meat kings but even dumber and not as tough. 

Les boys. that our rooster in the foreground and our ram behind him. They are pretty good guys but don't turn you back on Caesar, the ram, he can get playful.

This the a shot of some of the ewes and lambs on the pasture. I'd like to get them more tame but most of the time they are just causing trouble.

This is the chicken yard with just a single egg layer willing to face the camera. Chickens are funny animals.

New Beginning

I have arrived at my new home in New Brunswick and the getting tired and dirty has begun. This is the house:

Charming isn't it :) Someday maybe I'll show you inside. After we get a couch and TV so we look a bit more normal. For now I'll do a little photo tour outside.

Beatrice has come with us:

And she has a sister, for now at least, Betsy:

We have a multipurpose outbuilding made of a Shipping container, or Sea can as they are called locally, with some rooms added on one side:

A garden struggling in through a cold wet spring and the ravages of crows:

I seem to have brought hot Ontario weather with me this week and a scarecrow is on the to do list so hopefully it'll get a bit more green in coming weeks. And to finish off a different kind of tractor:

Chicken tractors! These mobile housing units were ingeniously built by my big bro currently AKA Big Muddy. Thanks Bro! They are providing shelters for our new laying hens and some meat king pullets. 

Next time we'll go out back and take a closer look at all of the animals.

P.S.: Thanks to ECJ for the generous donation of the machine of photos that captured these images.