Hi all
So let me start telling you about my day on the farm. Got up tired and cross for always being tired. Jade only went to bed late and would have loved to have slept late, but as luck would have it, i have a Rooster that crows at 5 in the morning and every hour after that. So up i got and before i could have my first cuppa, i was on the stoep to check if all is well with my feathered friends.
Let me tell you what i have and the names of them then you can see them in the photos that i wil be putting up. Ricky is the rooster and this poor guy, is not a normal Rooster. He is one of those roosters that have no hair on the neck, so the poor guy looks as if something is wrong. He thinking he is the best thing since cheese. We really got a shock when we first got him, and had to ask the farmer if his guy was ok as he has no feather on his neck. Well more than a month has passed and i must say he is getting more handsome to me as time passes. i would love to see his chicks one day as i hope they don't have his red neck and all. With him i have 4 hens - lucy, lady, ouma and betty-baard-beck. and two bantams.
On Sunday 30 May i got 4 muscovy ducklings and 4 geese. they are just settling in and i must say the first few night and still i worry that they will be o.k. The geese have names too. I have 1 Drake and 3 girls. Their names are Sir Francis Drake, snowflake, lily and snowball. the little one's have no names yet, but as soon as they get bigger i am sure the personalities will come through and they will have names.
Today the chickens decided to deflower by rock garden again, so i had to fix that up again. Ricky saw a Drongo on the fence and did not like that, so he jumped up and down trying to get to this bird. Maybe he thought it was a potential mate, or just did not want him/her near his girls.
The geese take their baths in the pond at around 9 in the morning and that is now a sight to see. It is a flapping of wings and diving. Never knew that geese could swim under water. I love watching them and just to see how graceful they are just warms the heart.
So the day went on with the chickens running up and down trying to catch a insect. The duckling went for swims and slept, first at the one tree then to the other.
As all their feathered friends are going on in the yard, our African grey parrot is tuning them up. She shouts at Ricky and the girls for being in my garden (he does not listen ) she tunes the dogs to go for walks, asks me for chips, wants a apple, shouts as Boeba the puppy for doing this or that. Man this farm is going to become a loony farm, and it looks like i will be the main member of this loony bin.