Feeding the Poultry

Both boys absolutely love feeding the chickens and the ducks. It is so much fun for them to throw the grain. Matthew almost always cries when it is time to put the can away and go back inside.

Spring Chicks

Time for baby chicks! These little pullets should start giving us lots of eggs later this year!

Farm Kittens

Our barn cat had five kittens a few weeks ago. They are very cute. Hopefully they will help keep the mouse and gopher population down :)

Bottle Feeding

We enjoyed having Andrew's sister Aleah and her goats stay with us over the weekend while the rest of the family went rafting. David enjoyed having his Aunt to play with. He also loved going out with her to milk the goat and feed the baby.

New Ducks

I have four adorable baby ducks. They are Khaki Campbells and are supposed to be good for laying eggs. I am hoping that I ended up with one male and two females, so I named them accordingly. They are Mr. Darcy, Miss Matty, Little Dorrit and ... well actually I can't think of a fourth name. So I am still thinking.

Baby Chicks

Our chicks hatched! David has been enjoying them so much.

Eggs

The chickens have been laying an abundance of beautiful eggs lately. I am also getting two duck eggs every day! We have eggs for sale. Call us at (509)675-2290

Chicks Coming Soon!

We are incubating a batch of eggs for baby chicks. They should be hatching on Friday. We are planning to bring them to thw Chewelah Earth Day Fair. Look for us there!


Hens laying eggs


Eggs in the incubator

Puddle Ducks

With spring coming and snow melting comes mud and mud puddles. Our ducks have been loving the puddles. They are quite cute as they run around to all the puddles!

David Helps Milk

David really enjoys coming out to milk with me. He watches with fascination as the milk squirts out, pets Hannah, and even tries to steal her grain sometimes. Here are some photos I took a few weeks ago of him while I was milking.

Planting Tomatoes

Yesterday I planted over 100 tomato plants! It is more challenging when you have a baby and a goat trying to climb on you the whole time!

Skylark

On Sunday morning I woke up to find that Hannah had kidded. She had one pretty little doeling. I just love her markings. I decided to name her Skylark.

It will be so nice to have fresh milk again, too!


David is fascinated with her. He loves to touch her.

Baby Chick

This is one of my special baby chicks. I incubated some green Araucauna eggs and got seven very cute chicks!

Lambs

We are raising three lambs this year. This fall we will have some lamb in the freezer and maybe have some to sell.

Visiting The Goats

David enjoys going outside to see all the sights. Here he is with Grandma visiting Melissa's goats.

Our New Puppy

We have also added a sweet collie puppy to our farm recently. She is so cute. When we first brought her home she was quite timid, but she has been adjusting. The poor cat is very jealous and not at all nice to her, so she avoids him if possible. She is also not too sure about the goat yet. The chickens were scary at first but now they are alot of fun to watch. We are having a hard time thinking of a good name for her. Any suggestions?

Hannah

We bought a milking doe last week. She is a Nubian/Alpine cross giving about half a gallon a day. She came with the name Hannah, I'm not sure if I will leave it or think of something new. She is very friendly and easy to milk. She only has one flaw. She has been very difficult to keep locked in. She escapes very well and runs right over to the window to look in.


Building a haybale barn for her.

Hannah

A jar of fresh milk.

Cows

We have three cows over here on our pasture now. Two of them are Andrew's brother Caleb's. and one is half ours and half his families. It will be nice to have the beef later this year.

Chickens

We raised 20 meat birds this year. Three of them died so we ended up with 17. Andrew has been quite sick ever since just after the wedding and I was having a hard time keeping up with everything. He is getting alot better now, it is such a relief. The chickens were all ready to butcher right during the worst of it but I had never done it before and couldn't do it by myself. So Andrews family came over and we got them all done. It was such a big help and it is nice to have them all in the freezer now.

The Setup

Who's Next?

Plucking

Gutting

Our Big Chickens

Our chickens are doing well and it is almost time to butcher them. Our layers are also doing good, although we lost a couple to a predator.